M4 Mac Mini is Apple's First Carbon Neutral Mac

[MacRumors]

With the launch of the M4 Mac mini, Apple says it has reached a milestone in its overarching environmental goal of total carbon neutrality by 2030. The Mac mini is Apple's first carbon neutral Mac to date, and it joins the carbon neutral Series 10 Apple Watch models.

The Mac mini is made from more than 50 percent recycled content overall, including 100 percent recycled aluminum in its enclosure, 100 percent recycled gold plating in its circuit boards, and 100 percent recycled rare earth elements in all magnets.

Apple claims that the electricity that was used to manufacture the Mac mini is sourced from 100 percent renewable electricity, and the company says that its worldwide clean energy projects address 100 percent of the electricity that customers use to power their Mac mini devices.

Apple updated its shipping methods, and 50 percent of Mac mini computers by weight are shipped using non-air modes of transportation, like ocean freight, from the factory to their next destination. According to Apple, these changes have cut the carbon footprint of the Mac by more than 80 percent, and to make up the remaining emissions, Apple "applies high-quality carbon credits from nature based products" such as those from the Restore Fund. The Restore Fund uses funds from Apple and other companies to invest in carbon removal projects such as reforesting.

Mac mini packaging is fiber based, which Apple says brings it closer to its goal of eliminating plastic from packaging by 2025.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1851310432881164678

Back in 2020, Apple announced that it was committing to being 100 percent carbon neutral across its entire supply chain by 2030, with net zero climate impact for every Apple product sold. Apple plans to reduce emissions by 75 percent compared with 2015, while using carbon removal solutions for the remaining 25 percent of its carbon footprint.

Apple's global corporate operations are already carbon neutral, and Apple has been making changes as it works toward hitting its 2030 goal.

Article Link: M4 Mac Mini is Apple's First Carbon Neutral Mac

 

[turbineseaplane]

We would use even less carbon if we could internally upgrade the storage ourselves.

 

[F23]

Apple delivering with Macs but dropping the ball with iPad & iPhone, who woulda thought.

 

[BabyBoii]

does anyone actually care about this?

 

[Jaro65]

Apple would be even more carbon-neutral if it continued its WFH policy, the same way Microsoft does.

 

[turbineseaplane]

does anyone actually care about this?

It makes Shareholders feel better I think

 

[WarmWinterHat]

does anyone actually care about this?

I appreciate it, but until we can upgrade and repair said devices ourselves, it’s mostly lip service.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I appreciate it, but until we can upgrade and repair said devices ourselves, it’s mostly lip service.

Since they aren’t really doing much meaningful change on iPhones, how about they introduce a new design where the battery is the entire back and can quickly and easily come off and be swapped?

That’s the kind of environmental move and innovation I would readily applaud.

 

[Rychiar]

come on apple pick a side! carbon positive or carbon negative!

 

[cicalinarrot]

Same dull design for 14 years, same design but smaller.
Does Apple, the design-oriented company, believe design it's over and it peaked in 2010?

 

[platinumaqua]

Same dull design for 14 years, same design but smaller.
Does Apple, the design-oriented company, believe design it's over and it peaked in 2010?

if you think about it, the exterior design is basically a tweak from original Mac mini's design from 2005

 

[osxster]

I wish Apple would stop it with the carbon neutral lies. Unless this thing is hand carved out of wood and teleported into people's homes, still even not then though, it is no where even remotely close to being carbon neutral. Upgrading old models to M4 would actually be a step towards making it carbon neutral. Not that it is a bad product, there is nothing carbon neutral here at all.

 

[Mr-Stabby]

 

[tomvos]

does anyone actually care about this?

Some people do.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...real-zero-more-than-60-climate-scientists-say

 

[gamerdude]

AI and Carbon Neutral in one product lol.

 

[HiVolt]

does anyone actually care about this?

Only the ones that pat themselves on the back.

 

[videosoul]

does anyone actually care about this?

Yes, very much so.

 

[JungleNYC]

does anyone actually care about this?

Nah. It's all virtue signal smoke and mirrors and makes these things cost more than they should.

 

[insoft.uk]

More carbon neutral BS, it's a scientific impossibility.
They will always be some degree of a carbon footprint it's just unavoidable, 99% fine but 100% BS

 

[8281]

does anyone actually care about this?

More sustainable manufacturing is good, so yes people care. The knee jerk cynicism gets a little old. Everyone yells about the BEV manufacturing process and then Apple goes, “hey, we’re building this more sustainably,” and then we get shrugs. Progress is good, even incremental progress.

 

[phuklok1]

this kind of marketing nonsense makes me angry. as a long time apple user why don't they actually do something for the environment like stop force obsoleting perfectly good equipment.

for example, i have a 1st gen ipad pro which i spent a ton on and it is still very fast in almost everything. At this point it is mostly used for just web browsing. it has tons more power than needed for this, but apple locks safari to the OS for no reason other than to screw over its customers. this means that since the device is stuck on ios 16, safari gets no updates and has an increasingly out of date webkit which fewer and fewer websites will work with. why? why put users at risk or create landfill with perfectly good equipment? i'm not even asking to update the entire OS, just stop locking basic apps to the OS.

help reduce e-waste and separate the browser from the os for crying out loud so it can be updated even if support of the device is stopped - you know like almost every other device out there! and backport this so the millions of devices out there can still be used for simple things (for which they have way than enough power to do)

instead we get things like no stickers, or whatever other nonsense the marketing department comes up with.

people have gotten used to treating computing devices as disposable items like a paper cup (and electronics do harm the environment, from mining, to water usage, e-waste disposal, toxic chemicals in manufacturing, etc). the idea of upgrade-ability to keep an item useful which used to be the norm is completely gone and apple sadly spearheaded this change (along with feature rationing).

 

[blacktape242]

i don't care personally.

 

[hagar]

does anyone actually care about this?

More people should because if governments don’t care, companies don’t care and customers don’t care, nothing will ever change.

Nah. It's all virtue signal smoke and mirrors and makes these things cost more than they should.

As long as environmental costs are externalised that’s true. But if actual costs are to be included, environmentally friendly products should become the cheaper option.

More carbon neutral BS, it's a scientific impossibility.
They will always be some degree of a carbon footprint it's just unavoidable, 99% fine but 100% BS

Not true. If they would over compensate (for instance by planting a forest for each mini they produce) there would even be a net positive.

 

[goobot]

Apple delivering with Macs but dropping the ball with iPad & iPhone, who woulda thought.

I’m assuming starting with lower volume products is easier

 

[Apple Fan 2008]

This is kind of like the old iPod boxes.