Greenpeace Declares Apple 'Greenest Tech Company' For Third Year Running

[gelous]

I agree with you that Apple's latest hardware products are anything but "green", but this report is titled "Clicking Clean: Who is Winning the Race to Build a Green Internet". So things like renewable energy sources etc would be what GreenPeace was looking at.

I wonder how Apple would fare if the report took into account the wastefulness of Apple's "Everything soldered on, throw away when no longer up to scratch" hardware.

Computers and phones can be resold, the lifecycle of a Mac tends to be quite high and all products can be refurbished or broken down at the end of life anyway. The majority of computer components are soldered on a motherboard already anyway. I get the frustration of user upgradability, but it's like 1% different to an upgradable computer when it comes to recyclability.

 

[Juicy Box]

Recyclability and greenness aside, I find it strange that people defend the soldered RAM and SSD on Macs.

There is very little benefit to the consumer.