Homeboy2 :
You need to follow your own advice and buy better PSU's for your office :lol:
Most network administrators don't have purchasing authority nor are they even invited a lot of times to the meetings when the DELL, HP, or other sales people show up on site.
I didn't have a choice in what I was supporting.
Also, most of the time (in my experience) companies don't tell their network admins to hand pick every computer part for every user individually. They buy something like DELL GX 260s or 620s or other computers targeted at office workers in shipments of 40 - 80 computers at a time. This allows for efficient use of things like Ghost Imaging for rapid deployment of hardware.
Most computers from those companies don't come with Seasonic PSUs. Instead the computer shipment just comes with a box of 10 or 20 extra PSUs of the same kind that is already in the computers that way a failed PSU can be switched out in 2 minutes and the person be operational again pretty quickly.
It is cheaper for DELL to give people a bunch of spare sucky ones that it is to give them good ones in all the computers and DELL are better protected on the downside with the sucky ones + spares.
Nice try, though.
As for gold/platinum/etc, it helps everybody when energy is used more efficiently. It doesn't just help power companies and businesses.
If a power company has to increase generation rate on their end and then spend all this money on increasing capacity it shows up in power bills. If people can use energy more efficiently they can supply the same amount of power on their end and we get more on our end out of it.
Also, people and businesses aren't that different in their power expenditures on a percentage basis. If it is cost effective for an individual to buy a platinum PSU instead of a bronze then it is cost effective for a business to buy 400 platinums instead of 400 bronzes. Not that it matters, because last I checked most companies don't use platinum PSUs or anything other than standard DELL low end PSUs. They get more savings by not even needing video cards in most their computers, ie: the biggest power sucker in the average person's home PC. Excel and Word work just fine on integrated graphics chips.
In any event, businesses hate to waste money and thus any problem a home user would experience related to PCs is magnified many hundred times at a business. An extra expenditure for an individual may be $20, and for a business it might be $10,000. For managers getting bonus checks, saving 10k could be worth a 2k bonus check so they are incentivized to do it when they can.
Also, it would be a tremendously bad marketing department that knew nothing of engineering. Marketing and Engineering departments tend to sit down at the same table pretty often and discuss back and forth what will and won't fly from both sides. Most every company that wants to succeed in the business world is already on this page, especially in highly technical fields.
Before you ask, yes I do indeed have a degree in Business Administration.