Nation of hoarders: 30 million PCs rot in Australia
What does last night's dinner have in common with your old PC? They get thrown out when their value flatlines. ZDNet Australia asks why Australians hoard old PCs.
What does last night's dinner have in common with your old PC? They get thrown out when their value flatlines. ZDNet Australia asks why Australians hoard old PCs.
TGIF! And what a week it has been, one I'd like to call let's-show-everyone-we're-eco-friendly week.
Greenpeace has updated their "Green Electronics Guide", a list which ranks the major mobile and PC manufacturers on how well they take care of this planet we all share based upon the information they make available. The results make interesting reading indeed.
The Queensland Government has announced a new "green" IT procurement plan covering all government agency purchases of PCs, laptops and servers over the next three years.
Acer won't commit to pre-installing Linux on its line-up in Australia, despite hinting that it would do so in the UK.
The company sheds the beige color and boxy shape to give its Optiplex PCs a rounded look with a midnight-grey exterior.
Next Friday marks the four-month anniversary of the proper debut of Dell's Adamo luxury ultraportable laptop, and it occurred to me recently that Dell hasn't done much since then to promote or reposition the ultra-premium notebook.What happened?
Come June, Dell Computer will start its PC recycling programme in Australia and New Zealand. Apart from the environmental upside, will this lead to cheaper PCs?
Dell is hoping to cater to the SMB and medium-sized business markets with new enterprise-class wireless access solutions.
Dell says the AirCarbon manufacturing process alone produces a net positive impact on the environment by sequestering more carbon from the air than it produces.