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MacBook Pro: The world’s greenest notebook
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Totally recyclable and more energy efficient, the new MacBook Pro notebooks were created as earth-friendly technological tools. The new MacBook Pro demonstrates Apple’s continuous quest for environmental progress. The company’s newest notebooks are guaranteed to carry features that work best with the environment.
Apple has worked hard to remove many of the hazardous chemicals that are usually found in manufacturing notebooks. Apple engineers eliminated the mercury commonly found in CCFL backlights and the arsenic present in LCD displays’ glass by making use of arsenic-free glass and LED technology that is mercury-free. The BFRs, or brominated flame retardants (BFRs), were also taken out together with internal cables, adhesives, insulators, and circuit boards made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Aside from these, the new MacBook also uses recyclable aluminum for its unibody enclosure, while its display is made of recyclable glass. Finally, the new Apple notebook comes in a smaller packaging, thereby reducing CO2 emissions.
Since both the MacBook Pro’s hardware and the software are manufactured by Apple, it becomes easier for the company to come up with a product that significantly reduces electric consumption. An example for this is the LED-backlit display, which uses 30% less power than the more common LCD displays.
Another important environmental feature of the new MacBook Pro is Energy Star certification, a guarantee that it meets the low power requirements set by the Environmental Protection Agency (or EPA). In addition to this, it also meets the latest Energy Star Version 5.0’s efficiency requirements.
MacBook Pro notebooks guarantee only the highest environmental quality as it received the highest EAPEAT Gold (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) rating. EAPEAT evaluates a product’s impact on the environment by looking at its recyclability rate, its manufacture and design, and by gauging the amount of energy it uses.
The most interesting feature of the new MacBook Pro, however, is its lithium-polymer battery, which allows up to 1000 recharges, or a five-year life span. This is absolutely better than the batteries commonly used by other notebooks, which normally last for only two years. If this is the case, more batteries are discarded in a shorter period.
For Apple, being environmentally friendly means coming up with worthwhile products like the new MacBook Pro. This product has a significantly lessened carbon footprint and uses more recyclable materials; all of these lead to becoming an energy efficient software that embraces the concept of green technology.
Greenpeace, who has been very critical of Apple in the past, gave the new MacBook their stamp of approval.
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