August 24, 2010
Dell releases latest green tech report card
ZD Net
Heather Clancy writes about Dell’s recent corporate responsibility report.
“What you can expect: An effort to make laptop and desktop products up to 25 per cent more energy-efficient by the end of 2010, compared with 2008 (and) a focus on the ability of server-managed power management to cut up to 40,000 in carbon dioxide emissions for Dell customers between fiscal year 2009 and fiscal year 2012.”
What do buyers look for in a new computer? A short history …
ZD Net
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes outlines what people often look for in a new computer.
“On average people seem to be in the market for a new PC every two or three years, but what look for in that new PC has changed quite dramatically over the past decade. Choosing a PC used to be all about the numbers. The first, and most important, number was as you might expect, price. With a budget in mind, people would look around for the most MHz or GHz, or MBs or GBs, that their money would buy, depending on how far back we’re willing to travel back in time. Go back a little over a decade to when the web was still embryonic and buyers were more reliant on brick-and-mortar in their immediate neighborhood, a limitation that put quite a serious squeeze on choice.”
Intel Acquires McAfee For $7.68 Billion
Mashable
Stan Schroeder shares his thoughts on Intel’s acquisition of McAfee.
“It’s a huge deal for Intel, primarily a hardware company, to acquire a security-oriented software company, especially one as big as McAfee. However, Intel believes that security has become an integral part of computing, which makes it their business, too. The fact that McAfee has experienced fantastic growth in recent quarters probably spurred Intel to go through with the deal, too. Be it hardware-enhanced security or pure software security products, there’s no doubt about it: Intel is now one of the market leaders.”
