The Green Solution, Green PCs

For the past decades, computer evolution is one of the remarkable advancement in technology. Since from the very first computer release in 1944 up to the present computers which are in the market today. ENIAC ( Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) develop by John Mauchly and John Prosper Eckert was the first computer release in 1944. Computer has been modified and upgraded every year to suite to our personal and office needs. Nowadays, computers are equipped with high-speed processors compared to the very first computer released long time ago. Intel for example, had just recently released their 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processor Family.  Built with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 and Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology. Extra Performance on Demand. Smart Multitasking. Somehow,  due to this rapid changes in technology have resulted in a fast-growing electronic waste around the globe. Electronic waste(E-waste) are electronic devices which have been disposed.  An estimated 50 million tons of E-waste is produced each year.

Green PC's have been introduced recently in the market. This has been marked as one of the solution for this so-called E-waste.  Userful MultiSeat Linux 2011™ is software that turns 1 Linux computer into 10 high performance independent computer stations. Another is the NComputing vSpace software which provides multiple end users with simultaneous access to a single operating system instance of either Windows or Linux. Another remarkable one is the SoftXpand 2011 which supports Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate editions, 32 or 64 bits) and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems. Somehow this kind of technology has its limitations. This can't be used yet in a business like an internet cafe. This technology was not yet designed for gaming purposes. The process and transmission of data for games from each of these workstations is too heavy for this kind of technology. For now, this could only handle office and business applications/software which are commonly used in a company, school and other small businesses.

Today, the world is suffering crisis, not only economically, but also environmentally. This technology is really a big help to us. Turning 1 computer into 10 or more computer stations, how much savings could that be? A business, company, school can easily deploy large computer stations at a very low cost. A single PC with a very nice processor, video card and etc.,  nowadays, may range around P20,000-P40,000. See? This could be also seen as one solution to global recession. Through this every place in this world can help reduce not only in electricity bill, hardware and support costs and most especially in carbon dioxide emissions and electronic waste. An ECO Fact: Switching 1% of the world's PCs to Userful Desktop is equal to taking 26 million cars off the road.