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Sustainable Desktop
Hello,
I am a dutch student who is researching how we can achieve a more sustainable school. I would like to know which computer is the most sustainable. We now have the Dell Optiplex 3010 and the Dell Optiplex 3020. Which one is more sustainable or would it be better if we would use another type of desktop?
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Job van Essen
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May 30th, 2016 11:00
Optiplexes from as far back as GX620 work with MSDOS all the way to windows 10.
So I guess I'm wondering what you mean by sustainable?
Dell can work with you and use XIMAGE to make a single image for your environment.
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/services/ds_ximage.pdf
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May 30th, 2016 13:00
Thanks for your response, however I am researching which one is more environmental friendly (Which one uses more energy/current). We as group want to achieve a more environmental friendly school. I would love to know if you can think of a method to achieve this. Thank you in advance.
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May 31st, 2016 05:00
The 3010 and 3020 are ENERGY STAR® 5.2 compliant OptiPlex desktops. The 3020 micro is ENERGY STAR 6.0, EPEAT Registered. As are optiplexes back to 2006 aka all of the GX620 models.
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/optix/en/EPEAT_Dell_Overview.pdf
https://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/prod_development/revisions/downloads/computer/prog_reqs_draft_v5.2.pdf
Energy use depends on many factors including which processor and hard drive etc is used. Low frequency processors and SSD's use LESS energy than the High end High frequency processors and large capacity hard drives.
Aka laptop drives and SSD's use less power.
Further it depends on the SIZE of the unit. USFF and Micro versions use the least power.
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/optiPlex-3020m-desktop/pd