aluminum wasnt that environmental friendly untill recent years becuase of a new protective chromium coating that makes it environmental friendly.
however Aluminum cannot be destroyed in the environment, it can only change its form.
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aluminum wasnt that environmental friendly untill recent years becuase of a new protective chromium coating that makes it environmental friendly.
however Aluminum cannot be destroyed in the environment, it can only change its form.
Thermoset plastics are simply not reusable. That's why they are trying to phase them out of Macs. There are other reasons they chose to use it on iPhone 3G, mainly cost and reception.
That being said, my white MB has held up very well after almost a year of abuse. Besides scratching and getting dirty (why did I buy white, oh yeah, they wanted $100 more for the color black), I have found it to be pretty resilient.
That being said, my white MB has held up very well after almost a year of abuse. Besides scratching and getting dirty (why did I buy white, oh yeah, they wanted $100 more for the color black), I have found it to be pretty resilient.
Just wondering- why did Apple go from Titanium to Aluminum? Because Aluminum is lighter? I'm just thinking of the TiBook. XD
Interesting.
Sometimes it's confusing to be "green".
I remember when "eco-friendly plastic bags" were introduced at grocery stores and their use was encouraged to reduce the destruction of trees.
Now plastic bags are everywhere and some are encouraging going back to paper.
I gave up deciding and bought my own bags from Walmart. I keep them in my vehicle and then re-use them.
Next thing you know, I will get crucified for supporting child labor making grocery bags in indonesian sweatshops.
Aluminium is much, much cheaper, many times more abundant, easier to work with, and even though titanium is great in many ways, they cocked it up by using an almost pure titanium, giving the box way too much flex (they could have alloyed it instead), and it's more difficult to anodize/paint it. Unfortunately they painted the whole damn thing. Go do a google search for Tibook, and then add words like "peeling", and "flaking".
Now, the tibook could have a been a great product, if it weren't for the exceptionally bad delivery (even though it sold well).
I got $1650 for mine, with the default 2GB of RAM. Sold it on eBay about a month ago.
I sold it because I know a refresh is imminent, and because I didn't want to have such an expensive laptop. When the MacBooks get a redesign, I will purchase the very base one for lugging around to school with me.
"Apple plans to completely eliminate the use of PVC and BFRs in its products by the end of 2008."
and the whole thing is here: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/agreenerapple/
Next.
I think it was because of iLife '08 and iWork '08.
And a number of rumors from a reliable source.
Remember the leaked aluminum keyboard last year? The iMac itself was never leaked so that meant no redesigned iMacs!
Supposedly there will be a 2.27 GHz quad-core in Q4 2008 that only draws 35 W. Nehalem will be 45/55 W (35/45 W in "Penryn" terms).
- Bigger screens
- Higher resolution screens
- Faster processors
- 7200 RPM HDD option
- Better speakers
- GRAPHICS CARD
Nope, they were made from painted "pure" titanium, not even a titanium alloy, and certainly not aluminium.
Edit:
Actually, they claimed it was "commercially pure" titanium (99.5 percent back then).
Here's a link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010124062800/www.apple.com/powerbook/
Oh, and the white painted frame was made from carbon fiber (except it has almost no fibres in it, but was mostly just epoxy with small fragments of carbon fibres and some graphite), primed and then painted
And they wouldn't do it if it cut their profits. There isn't a big corporation alive that would.
They most likely figured out that such a move would gain more profit from environmentalist customers than implementing it would cost them.
Or government regulations will force them to do it eventually. Any costs that are incurred will be passed on to the consumer one way or another anyway.
I think there is no doubt you are going to see aluminum macbooks with LED screens. I think right now if you looked at it the Macbook is the most environmentally unfriendly. Apple said in their Green Apple letter that they are trying to phase out dangerous plastic and LCDs all together so I think the Macbook is the last product with both of them (minus the Monitors because we all know they haven't been updated in a long time)
It'll eat your babies!
No, just fluorescent-backlit ones, in favor of LED backlit ones.
So do you think there will be LEDs and Aluminum in the next one or just LEDs or none?
I figured this out in April/May of this year. It's not that hard, isn't it?
Every late January / late February is minor product bump month.
Spring is for more significant product updates.
Every January is NEW products month. So I don't know why people are expecting updated Mac Pros / MacBook Airs / MacBook Pros / MacBooks / etc. at Macworld. For Macs, Macworld is for new or revamped (Intel transition) products.
Maybe LED backlights, maybe aluminum. There's a far better chance of the former, though.