Lenovo pitches solar-powered PC

Lenovo pitches solar-powered PC Lenovo has become the latest manufacturer to jump on the green PC bandwagon. Its created a desktop machine that doesnt gobble up as much electricity as others do and which can also be powered by a solar panel. The company claimed the ThinkCentre A61e desktop - aka Blue Sky - is made from materials 90 per cent of which can be reused or recycled. So can 90 per cent of the packaging. The A61es based on a choice of AMD "energy efficient" Sempron single-core or dual-core Athlon X2 CPUs, all designed to consume no more than 45W of power. All versions of the PC ship with just 512MB of 667MHz DDR 2 notebook-format memory and an average sized 80-750GB of hard drive space. It also includes an ATI Radeon X1200 graphics engine built into the AMD 690V chipset. The ThinkCentre A61e will be available next month for around $400 (£200/€240). Lenovo didnt say how much extra the aforementioned solar panel will cost, and when we checked with the A61es website, the panel was not yet being offered.