On Thursday, Dell launched its new Studio laptop series,
thus giving customers the chance to choose one of the seven available colors.
The Studio 15 has a 15.4-inch screen, while the Studio 17
comes with a 17-inch screen. Both laptops are packing dual-core Intel Core 2
Duo processors, they can support 4GB of memory and 320GB of HD storage and they
include wireless 802.11 b/g networking.
The Studio 15, priced at $799, weighs 6.11 pounds (2.77
kilograms). The Studio 17, whose price starts at $999, weighs 7.87 pounds (3.57
kilograms).
Michael Tatelman, Dell's vice president of consumer sales
and marketing, said these products are the result of user feedback processing
and they address the users’ need for "personalization, connectivity and
simplicity."
Thinking of its products’ users and more, in May, Dell gave
itself a two-year deadline to reduce by up to 25% its products’ energy
consumption. This was not Dell’s first environment-oriented effort as,
according to company officials, its OptiPlex desktops have recorded a 50%
improvement in energy efficiency since 2005 and the Latitude notebooks’ power
consumption went down by 16% in the last two years.
At the end of April, at the Fortune Brainstorm conference in
Pasadena, California,
Dell announced "the company's smallest and most
environmentally-responsible consumer desktop PC." This came after the
announcement made by the company on World Environment Day last year, when the
idea of a partnership between Dell and ReGeneration was presented, plan that
was supposed to help the former become the "greenest" technology
company in the world.
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