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Offer "green" desktop systems

460 points posted to Environment by tnitchov 05/18/07 **UNDER REVIEW**

Offer "green" desktops by doing away with all Optiplex and Dimension case designs, revamp a laptop chassis into a smaller footprint desktop ... replace 3.5" drives with laptop 2.5" drives, and scale down 300+ watt power supplies to the Optiplex 65w capacities of yester-year.

Take an existing laptop design ... remove the LCD and keyboard to reduce the cost. Now you've got something more like the Mac Mini. You'll have something much smaller so that you can place under a desktop telephone ... you'll have something smaller so you won't be able to hear it ... and you'll have something more energy efficient that will help the environment.





dell_admin10
07/31/07		 Our designers are always looking for more ways to improve Dell products. Revamping the size and cases of our desktops and notebooks is a great way to get greener and better serve our customers. Stay tuned!
dell_admin10
10/08/07		 Changed status to **UNDER REVIEW**.
greymack
Apr 20		 Cool, quiet, and elegantly compact is exactly what I've looking for in recent years. I use a notebook on the desktop, but I'd prefer a much larger screen, multiple internal hard disks, a wireless keyboard, and quieter fans. A desktop of this design would seem obviously attractive to a wide audience for all but the most demanding applications. It was disappointing to find only a couple of desktop systems offering a mobile processor/chipset with 2.5" drives, and they were in an annoying cube-shaped box.
todd_d
Apr 23		 tnitchov,

Fantastic idea. I am passing this on to our design team. Stay tuned. By the way, voting has begun in our Green Design Competition. Design students and professionals have submitted there ideas to us, and the community is beign given the chance to select the winner:

http://www.regeneration.org/evopc/

Thanks,
Todd Dwyer
Dell Community Liaison - Environment
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