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For all our raving about Corporate America, it's great when
a company does something admirable for a change. So this week it's hats off to Hewlett-Packard Co.
On Monday, HP beat the Environmental Protection Agency's deadline to implement new energy-efficient specs for PCs when it announced three new desktop models that meet the Energy Star 4.0 hardware standards — revised governmental standards for computer energy efficiency. The EPA's mandates affect computers, notebooks, workstations and game consoles, and they go into effect on July 20 this year, Digital Trends reported. HP's Compaq dc5700, dc5750, and dc7700 desktop PCs are supposedly designed to meet customers' growing wishes for more efficient power management and cooling, according various published reports. The new desktop PCs come with either Intel or AMD chips, and aim to help organizations shrink their energy costs by as much as 52%, from about $6 to $58 per PC over a year. The company is also offering 80% efficient power supplies, a component of the Energy Star 4.0 regulations that go into effect on July 20 this year. HP said the computers are more reliable, have reduced maintenance costs and generate less heat. They range in price from about $600 to $950. All of this news should please electricity-generating companies like PG&E Corp., Xcel Energy and Southern California Edison, which have been pushing companies like HP and Dell to improve PC energy efficiency to lower demand on the grid. Now, it's up to Dell and other rivals to step up to the energy-saving plate.—Cheryl Meyer
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