Apple laptops trashed
APPLE IS PLANNING to dump its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook range, according to AppleInsider.
Apparently, both models are facing such major design changes at their next refresh that even their own mothers will not recognise them.
The 13-inch consumer MacBooks will now be lovingly crafted of aircraft-grade aluminium and stainless steel and will lose their plastic boxes. Apparently this makes them a bit greener.
The MacBook Pro will also be redesigned with some of the lessons learnt from the August 2007 aluminium iMacs and MacBook Air.
This will be good news for those who have been emailing me to say that that the MacBook Pro is a sexy machine at the cutting edge of design. It is an admission that it is about as dated as Tunisian oasis, and, face it guys, it looks like a PowerBook G4 which has had liposuction.
Both will have Montevina-based processors from Chipzilla's upcoming Centrino 2 platform, which require a new Socket B logic-board. The second-gen mobile Penryn chips will boast a 1066MHz front-side bus and clock between 2.26GHz and 2.8GHz, AppleInsider enthuses. µ
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Dear me, now they want to make green Macbooks which look like a Dell XPS? What next? A gadget with a touchscreen made from recycled paper?
"The 13-inch consumer MacBooks will now be lovingly crafted of aircraft-grade aluminium and stainless steel and will lose their plastic boxes. Apparently this makes them a bit greener."

It'd be interesting to see the facts here - aluminium production has been known to require its own hydro (Iceland, Norway) or nuclear plant (Wales) such is its demand for energy. Of course, Steve could always use recycled aluminium...
that'll be Russian aircraft grade, based on what they meant buy "server grade" in the Time Capsule.
A far greener alternative would be to make laptops upgradable.

FYI: aluminum smelted removes the oxygen - by using electricity to combine the oxygen with carbon, to form CO2. Forget the electricity production; huge blocks of carbon - weighing tonnes each - dissapear into the atmosphere, literally!

Quote:
"On average the smelting process produces 1.6 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of aluminium (from the consumption of the carbon anodes) and the equivalent of an additional tonne of CO2 from PFC emissions."

http://www.world-aluminium.org/?pg=100
Sure, aluminum doesn't require a lot of energy to recycle. Maybe it is just me, but I don't have the impression they really care about going greener. However, I'll give them a point if the aluminum is recycled in the first place.
Isn't telling an Apple zealot that their Macbook is trash just like telling a lady that she's fat? Scandalous! Heresy!

Plastic, the current case material, cannot be recycled. It can only be downcycled. This means that it costs lots of energy and still cannot provide equal products to the original plastic.

Whereas steel, aluminum and glass can be recycled. Despite the huge inputs of energy the material can be reformed into a higher or equal level use. 

The ideal material, as computers seem disposable, would be to make the cases out of wood, bamboo or some other compostable material. However, that has issues with toxins of the glues used etc. 

So, plastic toxins, downcyclable only versus aluminum which is fully recyclable.

You guys should comment on something that is within your purview instead of repeating lines fed to you by stupid Republicans that can't count much less analyze.
Both the Macbook and MBP are not without there share of design flaws.

For example:
Out of the 3 MB I've owned all three had screen issues and the plastic cases were tearing within a year.

Out of the 3 MBP's I've had all three had power buttons that were sinking into the top case within a year.

Actually, it is alright since the problems show up within a year and are under the standard warranty, but I imagine that every single MBP out there has it's power button sinking into the computer.

LASTLY: (and this is a statement of fact)
EVERY APPLE LAPTOP IS TOO F'N HOT TO HANDLE. I don't care if the processor is fine with 185F, my hands and legs aren't!

It is time for a design refresh, for sure. Let's try for one that doesn't have patented design flaws this time.
the Inquirer is a one-trick pony.
Close it down and get a real job.
Let's see now, so it takes a huge amount of energy to recycle aluminum, not to mention that it takes resources to separate the materials before recycling compared to plastic which is nothing more than a combination of a couple of chemicals... Makes sense to me...NOT! This sounds a lot like the hydrogen fuel cell car theory - hydrogen is more green for the environment, yet it takes huge amounts of fossil fuel to make it in the first place AND water vapor is between 70 and 98% of the greenhouse gases (depending on who you ask) and all this added water vapor in the air will make the CO2 Global Warming Hoax seem like a minor blip... Get your head out of a tree and put it right in your butt.

Most green proponents don't even have their facts straight on greeness.
"yawn
the Inquirer is a one-trick pony.
Close it down and get a real job.
posted by : harry, 09 April 2008"

How?

But when it comes to making things greener I think it's not a bad thing I am thinking of getting myself a mb. I mean yes they have their flaws but its better then buying anything from PC World trust me don't what ever you do BUY FROM PC WORLD YOUR PURCHASE (if it doesn't break down an hour after you buy it) WILL BREAK MORE THEN THREE TIMES BEFORE THE END OF THE FIRST YEAR!! 

Even if you buy your mb or mbp from PC World at least for the first year you don't have to deal with trying to go though them for a repair you go directly to apple.