NEC Reveals Office-Friendly Mate ME Desktop [New Japanese Desktop is 'green', Core i5, SSD storage]

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NEC may be a very minor brand in Europe and the US, but in their native Japan, they’re a major player in the technology space. NEC’s new Mate ME is an enterprise-aimed workstation PC that boasts a 30% energy cost reduction compared to previous iterations of the Mate ME.

NEC also brags that in addition to the lower power cost, 75% of the parts of the Mate ME are completely recyclable, which is probably a bigger environmental achievement than the power consumption.

NEC has achieved the power decrease with a completely new motherboard from previous PCs in the Mate line, as well as solid-state drives replacing the hard drives. NEC has included software on the computer that will let users monitor their power usage. The walls of the computer are made with environmentally friend “bioplastic”.

This computer doesn’t sacrifice performance for the environment. The Mate ME has better performance over previous NEC workstations thanks to the inclusion of Core i5/i7 processors and the speedy quick SSD drives.

As for the full specs, the default model will come with a Core i5-560 processor, 2GB of DDR3 memory, a 160GB SSD, a DVD super drive, and Windows 7 Pro as the default operating system. The base Mate ME will cost Japanese salaryman types ¥171,000 ($1,883). NEC also introduced an enterprise-aimed notebook called the VersaPro, which also features similar Core i5 stats, and also is environmentally friendly – at least, compared to other computers.