IT | Wednesday, 05 March 2008

Are private consumers buying green PCs?

In autumn 2007 Fujitsu Siemens Computers launched the first SCALEO Green PC for consumers and was thus the first IT provider with a complete range of environmentally friendly solutions for data centres, offices and private households.
The green PC was developed to satisfy customer requirements for both private and commercial use. Indeed, green products account for about 75% of Professional PCs sold by Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
This computer manufacturer has a long tradition of environmental protection. Starting in 1988 with accepting returned devices and recycling them at their Paderborn site and creating the first internal guidelines for environmentally friendly product design in the early nineties, the first green PC was launched onto the market in 1993. Behaving in an environmentally friendly way does not mean doing without the comfort and technology of the modern world. The customer's purchase decisions can also highlight this issue and force business to align technical innovation and design with the environment.
The SCALEO Green PC makes it clear how environmentally friendly a computer can be and what can be achieved by a company with the appropriate research and development: the PC has acquired the Nordic Swan, Blue Angel and Energy Star certificates. All these certificates are based on very stringent guidelines so that the customer can be completely certain that he has not just bought a supposedly green product, but has actively done something for the environment.
Fujitsu Siemens Computers are represented in Malta by Merlin Computers Ltd of Mountbatten Street Hamrun. For more details please visit www.fujitsu-siemens.com or email [email protected]