What is Dell doing to improve the energy efficiency of its major products?
Energy efficiency is a central focus at the product development stage and one of the main pillars of our Design for Environment (DfE) program. Our passion for ever-more-efficient products is reflected in our offerings. For example, our 11th-generation PowerEdge™ servers represent up to a 34 percent improvement in power consumption for equivalent processing power over our ninth-generation ones. Furthermore, our laptops and desktops are being designed to consume up to 25 percent less energy by the end of calendar year 2010 compared with systems offered in May 2008. All Latitude™, Dell Precision™ and OptiPlex systems can be configured for ENERGY STAR® compliance and are among the most energy-efficient in the industry. Virtually every Dell rack and tower server also comes with the ENERGY STAR option. In fact, we were the first company to offer ENERGY STAR 1.0 for server families. (More information on ENERGY STAR-qualified computers and electricity savings can be found here.) We were also t
