AUG 26

Dell’s new Studio Hybrid has received EPEAT Gold, which means the desktop meets all 23 required criteria, plus at least 75% of the optional criteria listed by the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool. The Studio Hybrid is a cool, tiny desktop – about 80% smaller than standard desktops – and it uses about 70% less energy. What little energy it does use is used efficiently, meeting Energy Star 4.0 with its 87% efficient power supply. That adds up to some great savings on electricity over time.

The greenness goes beyond the desktop itself, since the packaging uses 95% recyclable materials, and you can send the machine back to Dell for free recycling using a kit that comes with the system. It’s great to see manufacturers making it so easy for users to complete the loop on their electronics.

And to top it all off, the Studio Hybrid just looks cool – certainly better than the HP or Lenovo Gold-winning desktop PCs. So sleek, you get to pick your favorite color, and it doesn’t take up much space at all. You can pair it up with Lenovo’s EPEAT Gold-winning monitor. Plus it has up to 4 GB RAM and up to 320 GB hard drive. Nice. The downside? One word: Vista.

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written by Bubba, August 26, 2008

For those of us living with solar powered homes this is a dream come true! To give you an idea, most computers can only be run for about 4 hours a day on SP. Thanks very much the good news ;D

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Vista a downside
written by paul, August 26, 2008

Why is that - it's more configurable for power and has better default settings than XP, and supports more flexible power modes like sleep. The downside is it does a lot more stuff, and doing anything chews power. A lot of that can be turned off though.

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Quality Issues with Dell Studio Hybrid?
written by Peaboy, August 26, 2008

I bought one of these and it woudl not boot reliable nor run consistently. The replaced the hard drive and still no joy. I'm currently waiting on Dell to ship me a complete system replacement. Has anyone else had similar quality issues with this PC from DELL?

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Dell issues
written by Bubba, August 27, 2008

I have bought 4 laptops and 6 PC's and 1 big fat server all from Dell in the last 2 years (for my business). All arrived sooner than expected, well packed and all have exceeded expectations, especially the server. So in short, I have had no problems at all with Dell products.

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