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Apple Promotes Environmentally Friendly Notebooks in New Ad

Toxicants, not toxins

As a toxicologist, this is a serious pet peeve of mine. Mercury and arsenic are toxicants, not toxins. A toxicant is a poison, a toxin is a poison of biological origin (e.g., snake venom). All toxins are toxicants. Not all toxicants are toxins. If you are unsure, use toxicant. Thank you for your time. 🙂

p.s.
For lovers of the tv show House, despite what Dr. House tells us every single week, his crew does not search people's homes for toxins, but toxicants.
 
Reza42 said:
As a toxicologist, this is a serious pet peeve of mine. Mercury and arsenic are toxicants, not toxins. A toxicant is a poison, a toxin is a poison of biological origin (e.g., snake venom). All toxins are toxicants. Not all toxicants are toxins. If you are unsure, use toxicant. Thank you for your time. 🙂

p.s.
For lovers of the tv show House, despite what Dr. House tells us every single week, his crew does not search people's homes for toxins, but toxicants.
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This is your first post, too. 😀 Good info.
 
"So every new Macbook has been built using materials that are highly recyclable and free of many harmful substances present in other computers."
So that's why they stop putting Firewire in the Macbooks because they are Hazardous and could start a "Fire" makes sense to me 😀
 
You know, completely off topic, but I think Apple should have went with an aluminium look around the screen on the new Macbook and Macbook Pro, like on the Macbook Air.
 
ZiggyPastorius said:
You know, completely off topic, but I think Apple should have went with an aluminium look around the screen on the new Macbook and Macbook Pro, like on the Macbook Air.
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In person, I really do like the look of the black borders.

It's personal taste, really.
 
bobertoq said:
"It runs on a quater of the power of a single light bulb"

How much exactly is that? How many watts does the new MacBook use?
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There is no glair in the MacBook haha or else I would eat it.

Anyway, I do not notice the glare. It does not bother me at all... I see so many people complaining about the glossy screens yet they do not use them. There are a few complainers -- however -- that use a glossy screen and do not like them. If you don't use the glossy screen right in front of the sun, you should be fine.
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I have to turn all of the room lights off so I don't have glare issues on a 24" iMac. Oh and it won't reduce brightness enough to calibrate. But other than that, whatever.
 
Reza42 said:
As a toxicologist, this is a serious pet peeve of mine. Mercury and arsenic are toxicants, not toxins. A toxicant is a poison, a toxin is a poison of biological origin (e.g., snake venom). All toxins are toxicants. Not all toxicants are toxins. If you are unsure, use toxicant. Thank you for your time. 🙂

p.s.
For lovers of the tv show House, despite what Dr. House tells us every single week, his crew does not search people's homes for toxins, but toxicants.
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Thank you for that post. I look forward to more like it.
 
greenpeace needs to get its priorities straight

kudos to apple and their environmental progress. hopefully this means greenpeace will quiet down finally. i love the environment and think we should do more to protect it, but whining about minute amounts of toxic chemicals (toxicants) in consumer electronics (and of all companies apple) is ridiculous.

go save the whales, reduce deforestation, curb the effect of invasive species, remove plastics from the ocean...........

if anybody really feels guilty about buying a computer they can even it out by not using plastic bags for their groceries for a week.
 
deputy_doofy said:
This is not true. I have a glossy MBP from late 2006 and NOT once has glare ever been a problem. It's amazing how many people complain and don't actually USE a glossy screen on a regular basis to make a valid point.
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i have a gbp and i hate the glossyness when i go to class
but ii dont bother posting the 500 millionth, "i hate glossy" post so yeah
im considering the antiglare coat
i use the cinema when im at home anyways
 
Advertisement to Sell a Product

Well let's look at this for what it is -- an advertisment in order to sell a product.

If you were buying a new notebook, would this convince you to spend 2x the amount of money on a Macintosh product versus -- let's say -- a Dell laptop?

And is this whole "Green is In" movement old hat in light of the "PRICE sells" attitude of the 2008-2009 Great Depression?

My 2 Cents anyways.

-Mariusz1977
 
FrankieTDouglas said:
I have to turn all of the room lights off so I don't have glare issues on a 24" iMac. Oh and it won't reduce brightness enough to calibrate. But other than that, whatever.
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The glare is not the same between the iMac and the Macbooks. Compare, you will see. The notebooks are a lot less reflective then the screens of the iMac
 
Time for Greenpeace to set their sights...

...on the printer manufacturers that engineer the cartridges to not be refillable.

Can't they find some horrible thing that's happened to baby seals from all of those printer cartridges thrown away after one use?
 
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