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New MacBook Air has some green qualities

Posted at 10:46 AM on 15 Jan 2008

Photo: apple.com

Apple Inc. head honcho Steve Jobs has introduced the new MacBook Air. Your nerdy cousin's new object of lust is LED backlit, comes with a recycle-friendly aluminum case, and gives purchasers the option of an efficient 64-gigabyte solid-state hard drive. It also boasts a mercury- and arsenic-free display, a circuit board without brominated flame retardants, and PVC-free internal cables. Consumers can tote it home in 56 percent less retail packaging than the MacBook -- and the Air is the thinnest laptop evah, so hey, less electronic waste! It can be yours for a mere $1799 -- and you'd better go get one, because the computer you bought two months ago is, like, totally old and embarrassing now. Sigh.

source: Earthtimes

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Linux is more green

Get an Asus eee -- it's small, lighter, uses less parts and has a 21st century OS...Linux.

by jabailo at 2:48 PM on 15 Jan 2008

Manufactured Macscapes

If you watch the new film, "Manufactured Landscapes", you then might ask yourself what it means, from an environmental standpoint, to always have the latest Mac product... (or you could just ask yourself that question anyway). :)

by greenarch at 6:49 AM on 16 Jan 2008

Don't buy into the old yesterday lie, Grist!

For Grist to suggest even in jest to "better go get one, because the computer you bought two months ago is, like, totally old and embarrassing now" is simply wrong. My 1995 PowerMac 7500 just died last year. It served me well for over a decade, though connecting to the internet was a challenge. In the end, only Netscape could do it...but that's planned obsolescence for ya, which is how manufacturers get Americans to buy all sorts of unnecessary crap. I took the memory from the 7500 and put it into a "vintage" Powermac 8600 I got free from a printer who upgrades his Macs yearly. Sure I can't run the latest version of QuarkXPress but I happen to like version 3.0 best! Why update or upgrade what isn't broken? If we all refused to buy new, they wouldn't make upgrades! The old Mac sold on Craigslist for $20 to someone who wanted to repair it and give it to a computer-less friend. Now that's recycling!

We only have one planet. Stop buying into the buying culture!

by lisfreese at 2:13 PM on 16 Jan 2008

You can never go wrong with an Apple!

MacBook Pro, iMac, or Mac Pro, they all rule! You will never regret buying an Apple. At least we haven't.

by cebnalb at 6:40 PM on 18 Jan 2008

new macs

Am I the only one who took the "go get one" directive as largely ironic (or is that sarcastic)?

by anomaly at 7:29 AM on 19 Jan 2008
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A green apple

I am now thoroughly confused. First the complaint was that we wanted a green apple and that it should have been out months if not years ago, now they do release a much more green apple post haste and all we snub for making a new release too quickly? Computers really do change quickly and unlike shoes, clothes, and cars these changes usually do require significant differences in structure and design or should we just still be trying to carry around 27 pound resource hogging laptops just to show everyone that we think technology shouldn't change so fast. To be honest I would say spend your money where it makes a difference on things like new improved technology when you actually need the update with computers a three to four year timeframe before updating to a newer machine as your main utility (I always keep the old for further use and have an original imac from '97 and just recently lost a '94 powermac to a pencil attack by daycare children so they do have a rather long life). Just save your money and don't waste the resources to change your entire wardrobe every six months, step out of the disposaculture of plastic bags and styrofoam, eat some veggies (gotta love those trophic levels), and stop driving everywhere!

by kristofeichenlaub at 8:09 AM on 20 Jan 2008

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