HP launches environmentally friendly rp5700 slim desktop PC

As the green trend looms ever larger over the consumer electronics industry, HP is taking full advantage of the opportunity by unveiling the environmentally friendly rp5700 slim desktop PC. The company toots its own horn by boasting about the Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) Gold award that the machine has garnered, and we'd assume that building it from 95-percent recyclable components and packing it in a box made from at least 25-percent post-consumer recycled cardboard had something to do with it. Additionally, the unit sports an uber-efficient power supply and comes with "an optional solar renewable energy source" to extract juice from the sun. As for hardware, you'll find Intel Core 2 Duo chips up to 2.13GHz, up to 4GB of DDR2 RAM, SATA hard drives as large as 250GB, optional RAID 1 setups, and your choice of operating system. Of course, the EPEAT Gold-certified machine steps it down to a Celeron 440 CPU with 512MB of RAM, and while this particular configuration will start at $817, other options are available today from $648 right on up.

[Via Slashgear]

[Unity Boy @ Jun 4th 2007 8:35PM]

HP is #1 for a reason...

[Ryhan @ Jun 4th 2007 8:40PM]

I commend hp for (boosting its own pr by) doing something good...

I laugh at the idiot who buys that thing,watching it blow up like an ied in iraq when it trys to run vista.... :D

But good for the rest of us, nonetheless...

[roman.kim @ Jun 4th 2007 8:39PM]

If environmentally friendly means ugly, then count me out. But I guess it's a start...

[Ryhan @ Jun 4th 2007 8:46PM]

Honestly, Apples got you covered already on that one... they have a whole page dedicated to how green apple is.

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Green peace should start a "product GREEN" campaign... giving 10% of profits to companies so that they can make more ecologically friendly products.
Oh right, green also symbolizes dead presidents...
:D

[Lee Roy Brandon III @ Jun 4th 2007 9:02PM]

@Ryhan
"...They have a whole page dedicated to how green Apple is" - going to be. Added that last little bit for ya, no charge...

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/agreenerapple

[Silver R. Wolfe @ Jun 4th 2007 9:06PM]

I was always a big fan of yellow apples.

[futurepastnow @ Jun 4th 2007 8:54PM]

Mobile processors are definitely the way to go for energy efficiency in desktop machines. And as for its looks...businesses don't care.

[anon @ Jun 4th 2007 10:07PM]

Solar power option, eh? Yeah ... cause geeks really see that much sun ...

[SM @ Jun 4th 2007 10:12PM]

^^ No Man, More Like Can it Play Doom ?????

[Webmasterguy @ Jun 4th 2007 10:17PM]

Ugly as sin, solar power is nice though, but on a desk top?

Webmasteruy
http://www.seowebsiteadvice.com

[Bloobie @ Jun 4th 2007 10:25PM]

Grow up already with the "gay" remarks.

[Ari @ Jun 4th 2007 11:13PM]

Like Toyota before it, HP is staking out what will be a very profitable environmental position.

As energy becomes more expensive, these devices have a good chance of saving their purchasers money. Furthermore, most electronics have serious toxins in them, and municipalities are starting to revolt at footing the disposal costs. California, Washington and others are starting to either require manufacturers to recycle their products or charging to cover the recycling costs. HP and other green machines may be able to avoid or sharply lessen those costs.

I hope this machine, and its thoughtfully-designed successors catch on. And as an Apple fanboy, I"m pleased Apple is doing more for the environment, but it still has a ways to go before it catches up to HP.

[Richard Lai @ Jun 5th 2007 7:10AM]

Meh, only a computer that can naturally decompose in the wild is genuinely environmentally friendly.

Just imagine that.

[Ricky Bobby @ Jun 5th 2007 6:47PM]

Way to go HP! This looks like the PC I've been looking for, I love it! HP = #1

[SM @ Jun 6th 2007 5:36AM]

^^ No Man, More Like Can it Play Doom ?????

[Brian @ Jun 11th 2007 5:14AM]

Well, considering that HP lists the operational power consumption as 74.892W, I'd say that it's quite comparable to an iMac.

Only a Machead could somehow think that there's something revolutionary about the ecology of the iMac. It's basically a notebook in a different form factor, which explains why it's power-friedly.

My two year old Pentium M notebook draws 17W at idle. Even high-end power hungry notebooks have 90W power supplies.

[maf654321 @ Aug 6th 2008 9:00PM]

More importantly, WILL IT BLEND?

[onkl @ Dec 15th 2008 4:38PM]

I am flabbergasted by the notion that any PC composed of desktop components can be advertised as "eco". I couldn't care less about the recycling level of the box, if I want a solar panel connected to my PC, I'll use my power grid (so don't bother HP), just give me a PC with a power usage like an iMac (approx. 60-80 watt) and the manufacturer may use lead ad libitum and still win my favour.