HEXUS.lifestyle editor Bob Crabtree puts aside his green-tinted eyeshades and goes green all over to applaud VIA's attempts to promote the use of low-energy computers, even as he criticises the choice of wording and the confusion that may result.
"The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, was the highly-appropriate setting yesterday for a media event promoting VIA's world-wide computing initiative to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
At the event, two UK-produced low-energy PCs were introduced. One, the Carbon 3, is from Evesham and due in the coming months; the other, actually a range of models, is from quiet-system specialist Tranquil PC and has been available for a little while.
Rather less appropriately, both PCs, like the initiative, carry the confusing and virtually meaningless label, 'Carbon Free'."
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