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HP Pavilion Verde

Introduced on October 20th 2008, the HP Pavilion Verde is a new desktop PC aimed at consumers who wish to purchase a new computer that will also help reduce their carbon footprint. Featuring recyclable packaging, the Verde uses the energy efficient AMD Athlon X2 4850e with a thermal evelope of 45w, 5GB of RAM, a 500GB hdd, DVD-writer with lightscribe,a 15-in-1 media card reader, six USB 2.0 ports, two FireWire ports, and VGA output powered by the onboard Nvidia 6150 SE. A slightly more expensive quad core model called the HP Pavilion Phoenix is also available.

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MSRP $579.00
Release date October, 2008
Brand HP
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not REALLY any more green than any other computer - intentionally misleading and praying on stupid consumer guilt / trends
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not worth $ 579
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no DVI/HDMI output, nForce 430 is not a low power chipset
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5GB of RAM is excessive and not very green
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Features

  • CPU / RAM: AMD Athlon X2 4850e (45w TDP), 5GB DDR2
  • Graphics: onboard Nvidia 6150 SE (up to 128MB of shared memory)
  • Storage: 500GB HDD
  • Optical & Expansion: DVD-writer with lightscribe, 15-in-1 media card reader, six USB 2.0 ports, two FireWire ports, VGA output

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This report was started October 20, 2008 at 5:22 pm by Yale
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Competitors

HP Pavilion Verde is ranked 2nd among it's competitors.  See the top picks in Desktops »
Gateway DX4710-07

Gateway DX4710-07

MSRP  $599.99    Released  December, 2008
Pros
  • affordable price
  • powerful components - quad core processor and 4GB of memory
  • includes everything required (except monitor)
Cons
  • poor onboard Intel GMA graphics - worst of the worst
  • 300W power supply
  • takes all the fun of building your own
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1 review
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Acer Aspire X3200

Acer Aspire X3200

MSRP  $579.00    Released  October, 2008
Pros
  • small form factor
  • affordable price
  • acceptable performance / capacity for the majority of consumers
Cons
  • requires users to purchase a monitor separately
  • multiple builds with the same name contain a wide variation of components - can be confusing to less informed consumers
  • lots of crapware pre-installed
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2 reviews
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1.  avatar Yale said:

While utilizing onboard graphics does in fact decease the overall energy consumption of a pc (most store bought PCs that aren't geared towards gamers use onboard graphics anyway), a low power processor actually utilizes about the same amount of electricity as any other when running idle - which is most of the time. There is nothing else remotely "green" about this PC, or any other PC. In fact, it is said that most of the energy expended by a PC is in manufacturing.

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  • not REALLY any more green than any other computer - intentionally misleading and praying on stupid consumer guilt / trends
  • not worth $ 579
  • no DVI/HDMI output, nForce 430 is not a low power chipset

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Did not agree with any pros

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  • not REALLY any more green than any other computer - intentionally misleading and praying on stupid consumer guilt / trends
  • not worth $ 579
  • 5GB of RAM is excessive and not very green

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While utilizing onboard graphics does in fact decease the overall energy consumption of a pc (most store bought PCs that aren't geared towards gamers use onboard graphics anyway), a low power processor actually utilizes about the same amount of electricity as any other when running idle - which is most of the time. There is nothing else remotely "green" about this PC, or any other PC. In fact, it is said that most of the energy expended by a PC is in manufacturing.

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Yale prefers Gateway DX4710-07 over HP Pavilion Verde
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