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HP Goes Green with New Business PCs HP Goes Green with New Business PCs
By Jennifer LeClaire
March 12, 2007 9:15AM

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The HP Compaq dc5700, dc5750, and dc7700 desktop PCs, which are compliant with the Energy Star 4.0 specifications for energy efficiency, are designed to meet business customers' growing requirements for more efficient power management and cooling. The new Energy Star 4.0-compliant HP business desktop PCs come with either Intel or AMD chips.
 

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On Monday, Hewlett-Packard Relevant Products/Services entered the market a few steps ahead of the Environmental Protection Agency's deadline to implement new energy Relevant Products/Services-efficient specs for PCs when it announced business computers that meet the Energy Star 4.0 hardware Relevant Products/Services standards. The company said its new line of computers will help organizations reduce their energy costs.

HP Relevant Products/Services is also offering "80 percent efficient" power Relevant Products/Services supplies, a component of the Energy Star 4.0 regulations that go into effect on July 20, 2007, ahead of the competition.

HP said its lab tests demonstrate that configuring PCs with the optional 80 percent efficient power supplies along with the other Energy Star 4.0 hardware requirements could reduce total system Relevant Products/Services power consumption as much as 52 percent. That's an average annual cost savings ranging from $6 to $58 per PC, according to the company.

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The HP Relevant Products/Services Compaq dc5700, dc5750, and dc7700 desktop PCs are designed to meet business customers' growing requirements for more efficient power management and cooling Relevant Products/Services, the company said.

HP cited several benefits for companies who use PCs configured to meet the Energy Star 4.0 requirements, including increased system reliability, reduced system maintenance costs, as well as decreased air conditioning costs -- all due to less heat generation. Collectively, HP said, these benefits can extend the life of the system.

Roger Kay, principal analyst at Endpoint Technology Associates, said he can see the benefits of the new PCs. He pointed to the recent AMD Relevant Products/Services study on power consumption in data Relevant Products/Services centers that found electricity consumption in 2005 resulted in utility bills amounting to $2.7 billion.

"Even though clients use much less energy than servers on an individual basis, there are more than 10 times as many clients as there are servers out there," Kay said. "You can be certain that the total energy consumption of the clients is actually greater than the total energy consumption of servers. It's just more difficult to measure."

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Companies can choose Energy Star 4.0-compliant HP business desktop PCs with either Intel or AMD chips.

The Compaq dc5700 and dc7700 models offer Intel Core 2 Duo processors and come equipped with Microsoft Relevant Products/Services Windows Relevant Products/Services XP Professional, 80-GB hard drives, 1 GB of memory, and DVD/CD-RW combo drives. The models list for $899 and $959, respectively.

The HP Compaq dc5750 business desktops come with AMD Athlon processors, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, 80-GB hard drives, 512 MB of memory, and DVD/CD-RW combo drives. The AMD-powered PC is priced at $609.
 

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