Dell is striving to be the ‘greenest’ technology company in the world and to achieve that it plans to use light-emitting diode (LED) backlighting in all its news notebooks by 2010. Dell has announced that by December 15, 2008 two-thirds of Dell Latitude E-Family notebooks will be shipped with mercury-free LED backlighting as a standard feature. This includes the Latitude E4200, E4300, E6400 ATG and E6500. The Dell Precision M2400 and M4400 will also ship with LED backlighting.
LED based displays are mercury-free, highly recyclable and very energy efficient. Dell claims that their 15-inch LED displays consume an average of 43 percent less power at maximum brightness. Dell estimates that at least 80 percent of its total volume will be delivered with LED as a standard by end of 2009 and 100 percent by 2010. The company also estimates that this would result in savings of approximately $20 million and 220 million kilowatt-hours of energy in 2010 and 2011 combined, the equivalent of annual CO2 emissions resulting from energy use of more than 10,000 homes.
[Via Digi Times]