Advent Eco PC dials down your power meter
By Stephanie Patterson 
posted Sep 20th 2008 10:07AM
posted Sep 20th 2008 10:07AM
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£599 = $599, gotta love them taxes.
that statement makes no sense. taxes dont reduce the cost in USD.
also, stephanie, could you maybe be a little more open minded about eco-friendly products. your last comment makes you look extremely naive and uneducated.
That's WAY TOO MUCH for this.
You could buy an HP DV series Laptop for $700 with a Core 2Duo, 3GB Ram Nvidia chipset and built in n-wifi and then connect it to a monitor.
@thatrotierkid
I agree. When I saw the first posts by Stephanie I thought something was changing at Engadget: it's the first time I see a girl, and all the more, she doesn't have the attitude.
But this post is a quite a letdown: making jokes for the sake of it and a dumb kind-of-irony is typical of Engadget. Stephanie, please, don't fall for it.
@thatrotierkid, no they don't, but the lack of it does.
check your math. 599 pounds = $1,098.74
I know how the math works, I was just pointing out that in europe, hardware gets so overpriced due to the taxes, so that we have to pay 100£ for a product that costs $100.
Am I using the wrong words or something?
i understand what you mean about the taxes being high now, but still the cost of the product is $1100 USD, not $599 USD, which is why your first comment made no sense. if you had said 599£ + 500£ in taxes = $1100 USD it would have made more sense.
My GOD!
He's not talking about if you imported it he's talking about if it was sold in the US it would more like $599.
Exaggeration maybe, but not far off:
./agree with Dopefish
Yes, I believe he's talking about stuff like the VAT that usually factors into products sold in Europe.
If you use this computer for 5 years, the energy savings pay for itself!
By the end of the 5 years, you'll be incredibly frustrated because the specs won't be near enough to stay current by then.
Shuttle K45 barebone is 100$, and it draws around 50-100Watts (Has 100W PSU) with E2180 and 2gb of RAM.
Of course you need to get the other parts separately, but it is going to be a lot cheaper.
I'd hate to be the guy/girl that gets the one made from recycled baby-diapers
Why do I have to pay more for something that's been recycled? Ah, because eco-friendly is in style.
Because recycling costs more than just sending it to a dump in China.
And one day they'll be sending it back to you.
Also despite it being nearly a year late (it was in last years Christmas magazine) they still managed to ship it with foreign keyboards....
I don't see any reason for it to be that expensive, except maybe to take advantage of stupid but rich upper-middle class eco freaks.
It's actually quite a lot more expensive than an equivalent spec laptop also sold by PC World.
It already does reek, the Dell Studio hybrid is a way better deal and I can't imagine that it consumes that much more power.
The Dell looks a lot nicer as well. This thing looks like a $19 UPS.
no, no, no. that banana peel smell is just the built in Mr. Fusion. How do you think they keep power consumption so low?
Eco Friendly = Out of Date product sold at huge profit.
PowerTOP version 1.9 (C) 2007 Intel Corporation
Cn Avg residency P-states (frequencies)
C0 (cpu running) ( 5.1%) 2.21 Ghz 4.2%
C1 0.0ms ( 0.0%) 2.21 Ghz 0.0%
C2 0.3ms ( 0.1%) 1.60 Ghz 0.0%
C3 3.3ms (94.7%) 800 Mhz 95.8%
Efficiency starts with hardware, but it ends with software.
I work at PC World, the cutomers first question is always some where along the lines of 'why should i pay £600 for this machine when i can get one a lot more powerful for the same price'.
I'm not complaining about these eco friendly products as such, they are just a little too pricey for the average consumer who wants as much bang for buck.
I guess the point is that it's not meant to be super powerful and offer incredible bang for buck as it's designed not to consume a huge amount of power.
Its for more 'energy-conscious' consumers I expect.