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Enigin + Green Hardware = Green Image Boost!

Vaio has just come out with 4 brand new notebooks, each with its own personality, and most importantly eco friendly!

Just like Enigin give businesses the chance to be greener and save money, these little marvels from Vaio give the user the sensation (to some extent, rightly so) of being environmentally friendly even when typing or browsing the internet. Here are the 4 newbies:

• W series “eco-friendly” Mini. Pretty close to a netbook. The main slant is axed on the plastic enclosure which is tinted in green (subtle hint?) and of which 23% is made from recycled CDs. The carrier case is also made from recycled material - plastic bottles. The screen measures 10 inches and is LED-lit. It runs Windows 7 Starter edition.
• Z series lightweight. Sony call this one an ultra-portable. The aluminum-encased Z is roughly 3 pounds and ships exclusively with solid-state drives, up to a 512-gigabyte model. Prices start at $1,900 and can drastically increase from there (a Blu-ray player is optional, as are Intel Core i7 and i5 processors ).
• F series. The latest entry in the multimedia entertainment portable space, the F has a just-right-for-movies 16.4-inch screen and likes to stay at home on a desk.
• Y series. This is the semi-lightweight (4 pounds) MacBook fighter that delivers up to 7 hours of battery life and incorporates a 13-inch screen. Starts at about $800.

Sony showed off a variety of other new products beyond the new Vaios, including new Cyber-shot digital cameras and camcorders, home theater audio systems, and an intriguing touchscreen Internet viewer for the desk called the Dash.

Sony would now plan to market SD (secure digital) memory cards, even though it has long been pushing its propriety flash storage technology, the Memory Stick.

Although Sony seem to be trying to make green gestures, by using recycled material for some of their new products, it is still fairly debatable as to whether or not to consider this as environmentally friendly. Energy consumption through the use of those technologies is still polluting, for example.

But at least, promoting recycling is a bonus point for Sony. If companies invested in relatively eco-friendly equipment and hardware, and combined that effort to the implementation of energy efficient solutions (such as Enigin PLC’s for instance), the outcome would indeed reflect positive impacts on the environment.

By using Enigin PLC’s energy saving products (lighting, air conditioning, refrigeration, motors) and by choosing green hardware, a company can definitely expect to see their green credentials sky rocket. Not to mention the significant reduction in energy bills that would entail!