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EPA Energy Star Rating
Michael Dell,
Why are no Inspirons or Dimension son the EPA Energy Star-rated list? Robert |
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EPA Energy Star Rating
Because consumers are too stupid to pay a little more upfront for the
savings benefit. They shop purely on price. If energy star costs Dell another $20 per machine, they'll lose the price wars to competitors that don't do it. That's why the Latitude Optiplex and Precision lines, targeted at business, are energy star rated. Tom -----Original Message----- From: Nospam ] Posted At: Saturday, July 21, 2007 5:42 AM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: EPA Energy Star Rating Subject: EPA Energy Star Rating Michael Dell, Why are no Inspirons or Dimension son the EPA Energy Star-rated list? Robert |
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EPA Energy Star Rating
what extra does the energy star PC have?
"Tom Scales" wrote in message news:C332299E47AF4FE1BF89DDEBC247F4AA@M2010... Because consumers are too stupid to pay a little more upfront for the savings benefit. They shop purely on price. If energy star costs Dell another $20 per machine, they'll lose the price wars to competitors that don't do it. That's why the Latitude Optiplex and Precision lines, targeted at business, are energy star rated. Tom -----Original Message----- From: Nospam ] Posted At: Saturday, July 21, 2007 5:42 AM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: EPA Energy Star Rating Subject: EPA Energy Star Rating Michael Dell, Why are no Inspirons or Dimension son the EPA Energy Star-rated list? Robert |
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EPA Energy Star Rating
From what I have read, the quality and cost of the components is higher.
More efficient power supplies, etc. Could be that Dell just realizes that consumers don't care. Tom -----Original Message----- From: Keith ] Posted At: Sunday, July 22, 2007 9:22 AM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: EPA Energy Star Rating Subject: EPA Energy Star Rating what extra does the energy star PC have? "Tom Scales" wrote in message news:C332299E47AF4FE1BF89DDEBC247F4AA@M2010... Because consumers are too stupid to pay a little more upfront for the savings benefit. They shop purely on price. If energy star costs Dell another $20 per machine, they'll lose the price wars to competitors that don't do it. That's why the Latitude Optiplex and Precision lines, targeted at business, are energy star rated. Tom -----Original Message----- From: Nospam ] Posted At: Saturday, July 21, 2007 5:42 AM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: EPA Energy Star Rating Subject: EPA Energy Star Rating Michael Dell, Why are no Inspirons or Dimension son the EPA Energy Star-rated list? Robert |
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EPA Energy Star Rating
Selling price ALWAYS enters into the equation for computers aimed at the vast
unwashed cosumers... Ben Myers On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:42:16 -0400, "Tom Scales" wrote: From what I have read, the quality and cost of the components is higher. More efficient power supplies, etc. Could be that Dell just realizes that consumers don't care. Tom -----Original Message----- From: Keith ] Posted At: Sunday, July 22, 2007 9:22 AM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: EPA Energy Star Rating Subject: EPA Energy Star Rating what extra does the energy star PC have? "Tom Scales" wrote in message news:C332299E47AF4FE1BF89DDEBC247F4AA@M2010... Because consumers are too stupid to pay a little more upfront for the savings benefit. They shop purely on price. If energy star costs Dell another $20 per machine, they'll lose the price wars to competitors that don't do it. That's why the Latitude Optiplex and Precision lines, targeted at business, are energy star rated. Tom -----Original Message----- From: Nospam ] Posted At: Saturday, July 21, 2007 5:42 AM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: EPA Energy Star Rating Subject: EPA Energy Star Rating Michael Dell, Why are no Inspirons or Dimension son the EPA Energy Star-rated list? Robert |
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EPA Energy Star Rating
"Keith" wrote in message . .. what extra does the energy star PC have? FWIW, here is a criteria document: http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?...crit_computers Here is a more detailed spec: http://www.energystar.gov/ia/partner...Spec_Final.pdf Version 4.0 of the spec, which tightened some requirements, was published on October 23, 2006 and went into effect on July 20, 2007. Here is the 07/20/2007 Energy Star Qualified Products list: http://www.energystar.gov/ia/product..._prod_list.xls FWIW, there are three Dell systems on that list... all Optiplex 745 configs. |
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EPA Energy Star Rating
It's not what it has, but what it does. The energy star rating means
that the device consumes some level of energy (the maximum allowed for the rating on the class of device in question) OR LESS. How this is accomplished is irrelevant. Keith wrote: what extra does the energy star PC have? "Tom Scales" wrote in message news:C332299E47AF4FE1BF89DDEBC247F4AA@M2010... Because consumers are too stupid to pay a little more upfront for the savings benefit. They shop purely on price. If energy star costs Dell another $20 per machine, they'll lose the price wars to competitors that don't do it. That's why the Latitude Optiplex and Precision lines, targeted at business, are energy star rated. Tom -----Original Message----- From: Nospam ] Posted At: Saturday, July 21, 2007 5:42 AM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: EPA Energy Star Rating Subject: EPA Energy Star Rating Michael Dell, Why are no Inspirons or Dimension son the EPA Energy Star-rated list? Robert |
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EPA Energy Star Rating
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:22:56 -0400, Barry Watzman
wrote: It's not what it has, but what it does. The energy star rating means that the device consumes some level of energy (the maximum allowed for the rating on the class of device in question) OR LESS. How this is accomplished is irrelevant. If this helps any..... http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?...up&pgw_code=CO |
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