Dell Packs More Punch in New Green Small-Business PC
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Customer Feedback Drives Performance, Expandability Improvements
Six Months Ahead of Schedule
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Vostro Energy Smart 410 Desktop Saves Customers up to 47 Percent in
Annual Energy Costs1
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First EPEAT Gold-Certified Dell Flat Panel Monitor Also Available
ROUND ROCK, Texas (Business Wire EON) May 28, 2008 --
Dell today announced the Energy
Smart Vostro™
410 desktop, delivering industry-leading performance and
expandability in a system designed exclusively for small businesses. The
latest in a series of energy-efficient products and initiatives designed
to drive unprecedented customer savings, the Vostro 410 starts at $599
and saves customers up to 47 percent in annual energy costs1.
For more information, visit www.dell.com/vostro,
and share your feedback on the new small-business
blog.
The Vostro 410 is available tomorrow in North and South America and the
United Kingdom. It will be available to customers in Asia June 2 and the
rest of Europe, the Middle East and Africa June 5.
“Small businesses are increasingly concerned
about rising energy costs,” said Frank
Muehleman, vice president and general manager, Dell Small and Medium
Business. “With the Energy Smart Vostro
desktop, we’re able to save our customers
money and collectively cut down on CO2 emissions, while delivering the
features and functionality they require - especially high-performance
processing power, graphics technology, fast networking and maximum
expandability.”
Direct
customer feedback guided Dell to design and deliver the Vostro 410
desktop six months earlier in the product cycle than originally planned.
Customer-driven enhancements include:
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Outstanding desktop performance with Intel®
Core™2 Quad processors, 512MB graphics
cards and 800MHz system memory;
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A larger “tower”
design to allow the desktop to grow according to business needs with
space for up to four hard drives vs. two in the Vostro 400 and up to
3TB of local storage and memory;
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More expansion slots (six vs. standard four) and bays (four vs.
standard three), holding up to six PCIe/PCI cards to increase
configuration flexibility;
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Gigabit Ethernet for fast wired network access;
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Continuation of Dell’s 30-day worry-free
return policy; and
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Available with no trial ware and free services including 10GB of Dell
DataSafe Online Backup, Dell Network Assistant and Dell Automated PC
TuneUp.
“The changes we’ve
made to the Vostro 410 aren’t moderate
improvements but an unrivaled combination of performance and
expandability for a small-business PC,” said
Muehleman. “For customers running complex
spreadsheets or databases, multi-tasking frequently and heavily, or
using video-intensive applications, you can’t
beat the Vostro 410.”
In addition, Vostro customers can take advantage of Dell’s
new services portfolio, ProSupport,
which gives them the ability to customize and tailor services to fit
their technical expertise and business needs. With growing demand for
mobile technology among small businesses, Dell also recently announced
its refreshed line of Vostro
laptops.
To complement the Energy Smart Vostro 410, Dell announced today
worldwide availability of its first EPEAT
Gold-certified display – the E207
20-inch widescreen flat panel monitor. More than 25 percent of its
plastics are made from recycled materials, plus flat panel monitors save
customers up to 28 percent in annual energy costs when compared to using
a boxier CRT monitor2. The E207 display starts
at $259.
Dell’s Commitment to the ReGeneration
On World Environment Day 2007, Dell announced it would partner with the
ReGeneration – people of all ages who
care about the environment – to become the “greenest”
technology company on the planet. The company has since pledged
to become the first in its industry to neutralize the carbon impact of
worldwide operations by the end of 2008.
Dell offers the industry’s only free
recycling program for consumers and an award-winning suite of asset
recovery services for businesses. Launched in January 2007, Dell’s
“Plant
a Tree for Me” program helps customers
offset the CO2 emissions related to their use of IT products. Expanded
to corporate partners in September 2007, “Plant
a Forest for Me” enables organizations
worldwide to share best practices and facilitate the planting of trees
in sustainably managed reforestation projects.
For more information on Dell’s energy and
environmental initiatives, visit www.dell.com/earth.
To join with the company and thousands of others in lending a voice and
saving the planet, visit www.regeneration.org.
About Dell
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative
technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its
direct business model, Dell is a leading global systems and services
company and No. 34 on the Fortune 500. For more information, visit www.dell.com,
or to communicate directly with Dell via a variety of online channels,
go to www.dell.com/conversations.
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Dell disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others.
1 Based on testing by Dell Labs in May 2008 and
Dell energy calculations comparing a Vostro 410 with Energy Smart
settings vs. the same configuration without Energy Smart settings.
Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and
manufacturing variability.
2 Based on testing by Dell Labs in May 2008 and
Dell energy calculations comparing a Vostro 410 system with Energy Smart
settings and a 17-inch flat panel vs. the same configuration with Energy
Smart settings and a 17-inch CRT. Actual performance will vary based on
configuration, usage and manufacturing variability.
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