Get ready for the Energy Star 5.0 barrage: Let the testing begin (ZDNet)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star 5.0 specification officially goes into effect on July 1, so steel yourselves for a flood of activity proclaiming support for the new standard. Some of the products you’ll hear about, like a bunch of notebooks, desktops and monitors from Lenovo, have actually been shipping for a while, but the vendors will use the kick-off date to remind you …