By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net
THE QUEST continues to produce the cheapest computers people can lay their hands on, which pits rival chipmakers Intel and AMD in a rather different ballgame.
Intel is coming up with a number of designs such as the Classmate PC, while AMD is making $100 notebooks for MIT’s One Laptop Per Child campaign.
But for a change, is anyone making a “green” PC? I asked Chris Hines, SVP for research at Forrester, whose photo is shown here, that question during a recent Singapore summit by HP.
He told me to wait for maybe a year or two. Chris flew halfway around the world from Boston to lecture about the benefits of going green in order for CIOs to sell IT projects to CEOs.
As for my green PC question, it somehow piqued his interest. Non-toxic PC parts? Maybe. Or one that’s made of “harvested” materials from old computers. Maybe cheaply-made green PCs then intended for use in Third World countries. On that note, with so many surplus computers flooding the market, the Philippines already is a hardware junkyard.
But a green PC for retail? Chris and I agreed that would require a massive supply chain overhaul. The challenge lies in making all suppliers adhere to standards.
Who knows? Maybe someone like Apple or even IBM can do it. These companies are good at branding, anyway. If some people already drive a Toyota Prius, why not lug around a green laptop?
June 12th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
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June 13th, 2007 at 10:01 am
i love green laptops..for a change..hopefully they will make it this year or maybe next year…=)