NEC has released two new desktop machines, which are part of the growing trend of environmentally friendly green PCs.
The two new members of the PowerMate Green PC family are the PowerMate 4S33es and PowerMate 450es equipped, respectively, with Intel 486SX 33MHz and 486DX2 50MHz CPUs.
The 486es series systems include NEC's OptiBus Technology, which NEC claims increases hard disk transfer rates by 30 per cent, local bus video, a graphics accelerator and a ZIF-OverDrive socket for future CPU upgrades with the Pentium OverDrive processor.
Green features include power management software, a 22-watt standby mode, an IDE drives standby mode, and a lowering of clock speeds.
The list price for the 4S33es and 450es is $12,800 and $15,800 respectively for systems with four MB RAM, a 1.44 MB floppy drive, a 210 MB hard drive and a SVGA monitor.