03 June 2008
HP Compaq dc5800 Helps Businesses Reduce PC Energy Consumption

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - HP Middle East Introduced today a new business desktop designed with the environment in mind to help companies increase the reliability and reduce the environmental impact of their PCs. 

The HP Compaq dc5800 Business PC provides power and flexibility as well as a variety of environmental features that allows it to meet the most stringent environmental requirements of the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT™) Gold registry.

HP currently tops the industry in the number of Gold-listed products in the EPEAT registry, which helps businesses evaluate, compare and select technology products based on their environmental attributes, such as meeting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's latest ENERGY STARTM energy efficiency requirements.

 "HP's ongoing efforts to design for the environment has spanned decades," said Louay Helaby, Business Desktops Category Manager, HP Middle East. "HP leverages the expertise built from this long-standing commitment to continually develop smart ideas for its desktop and other product lines that can help business customers not only be more productive, but also reduce both operating costs and their effect on the environment."

New Desktop More Efficiently Powers Business

The new HP Compaq dc5800 Business Desktop PC, available in both a redesigned small form factor and a microtower PC design delivers reliable technology, productivity tools and security features that are designed to provide a worry-free foundation for businesses.  It is loaded with energy efficient features, including the latest Intel® Core™ 2 Duo(4) processors, preloaded Verdiem SURVEYOR™ remote power management software agent(5) and an 80PLUS Power Supply delivering maximum energy efficiency to help dc5800 customers reduce processor heat and energy costs, as well as manage power and sleep settings more efficiently to increase the useful life of the PC. 

The HP Compaq dc5800 Business PC is also now equipped to with additional manageability and security features to help better protect IT investments. Available features include access to a suite of client management tools from a single integrated console, minimum 12-month product lifecycle, a single software image designed for use across entire platform, regardless of model or configuration, and worldwide configurations for consistent deployment for global corporations.

The dc5800 security options include embedded TPM 1.2 to help provide enhanced data protection and limit system access through hardware-based encryption. Optional HP ProtectTools security software further enhances an IT infrastructure's first line of defence.

The HP Compaq dc5800 is available now In the Middle East.

More information about HP's desktop offerings is available at www.hp.com/go/businessdesktops.

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About HP Middle East
HP is the largest technology and solutions provider in the Middle East with 1100 employees and subsidiaries in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Cairo, Ramallah, Qatar, Oman and 2 service Joint Ventures in Kuwait and Bahrain servicing the GCC, Egypt and the Levant. HP has been present in the Middle East since 1968 and opened its first regional office in 1994. HP Middle East is the market leader for enterprise, small and medium business and consumer technology products and offers a large portfolio of solutions and services in various business domains.

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1 Kilowatt hours estimated at .10 per hour per the Energy Information Administration, http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_6_a.html 1;  data on 3.0 ratios as a portion of total population: Sanchez, Marla C., Carrie, A. Webber, Richard Brown, and Gregory K. Homan. 2008 Status Report - Saving, Estimates for the ENERGY STAR® Voluntary Labeling Programme. LBNL-56380. October. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA
2 Source: U.S. Climate Technology Cooperation Gateway, http://www.usctcgateway.net/tool/
3 Source: Government Insights, an IDC Company
4 Dual/Quad Core is a new technology designed to improve performance of multi-threaded software products and hardware-aware multitasking operating systems and may require appropriate operating system software for full benefit. Not all customers or software applications will necessarily benefit from use of this technology
5 SURVEYOR licences must be purchased separately and are available as an option from HP.
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For more information, please contact:
Lana El HusseinHP Middle East
Tel: + 971 4 391 6000
Email: Lana.el-husseini@hp.com

Lisa Welsh
Impact Porter Novelli for HP
Hewlett?Packard Middle East
PO Box 17295
Tel: +971 4 3304030
Email: l.welsh@ipn.ae

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