Dell Packs a Punch with Green Small-Business PC

Dell (News - Alert) announced the Energy Smart Vostro 410 desktop, delivering industry-leading performance and expandability in a system designed for small businesses.

 

The latest in a series of energy-efficient products and initiatives designed to drive customer savings, the Vostro 410 starts at $599 and saves customers up to 47 percent in annual energy costs. The Vostro is available to customers this week in North and South America and the United Kingdom and will be available in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa next month.

 

“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 outstanding desktop performance with Intel (News - Alert), Core Quad processors, 512MB graphics cards and 800 MHz system memory, along with a larger “tower design” to allow the desktop to grow according to business needs with space for up for four hard drives vs. two in the Vostro 400 and up to 3TB of local storage and memory.

 

The Vostro also has more expansion slots and bays, holding up to six PCIe/PCI cards to increase configuration flexibility, gigabit Ethernet for fast-wired network access and continuation of Dell’s three-day worry-free return policy. It is 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.

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.

For more information, visit www.dell.com/vostro.

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