Dell pitches smaller, greener consumer desktop PC

Updated 2:05 p.m. PT: Dell PR provided us with a photo.

How apropos: On Earth Day, a PC company says it's going to make a greener PC.

The yet-to-be-named ultra-small green consumer desktop PC.

(Credit: Dell)

We already know Dell wants to be the greenest company on the planet, or in the solar system, or something. So as part of his remarks to the Fortune Brainstorm: Green conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Chief Executive Michael Dell previewed a desktop PC aimed at consumers.

The PC will be 81 percent smaller and will use 70 percent less energy than one of Dell's mini-tower desktops. And the packaging will be totally recycled. Though there's no name for the PC and no pictures (a Dell representative insisted they didn't just come up with the idea on the flight from Austin to LAX, and in fact have been working on it for "a while") the desktop is supposed to be available by the end of the year.

Dell is targeting consumers first with this energy-efficient desktop, which is notable since the company normally rolls out green initiatives on business machines first.

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[yeahright2008]

... energy-efficient desktop ...

Hmmm, if I place my ultra small silver and white core 2 duo Mac
Mini on its side ...

[gary85739]

Will future desktops/laptops be little more than...

cell phones?

I C everything but the monitor to be "on-line"!

and...the monitor will be a "projection unit" about the size of a Bic lighter...

Expect it all to "pseudo-projection" at most...

ALL storage will be on-line.

CD/DVD's will seem as funny as 45RPM records, kept only by ..."collectors"...

It's ALL gonna be teenie...and,,,it may even work!