Vincent Ferrari
06-23-2009, 07:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/advertising_regulator_apples_laptops_are_the_greenest_overall/' target='_blank'>http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.p...eenest_overall/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Following an investigation of a complaint by Dell, NAD, the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, said Apple was “unique” in having chosen only to produce laptops that meet the highest EPEAT environmental standards. “While other manufacturers may have subcategories of lines with similar ratings, none has comparable high ratings for all of the notebooks it produces,” NAD said. However Apple was asked to remove the the reference to “world’s greenest” given the potential for overstatement. NAD noted that some individual Toshiba Portage notebooks have a higher EPEAT rating than MacBooks."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1245758105.usr18053.jpg" /></p><p>Interesting distinction. There are individual laptops that are as green or greener, but not an entire line that's as green as the MacBooks. Fair enough. Frankly, I think this whole rush to get green thing is a bit annoying already, but there are obviously people who make their buying decisions based on the color of their environmental impact (not to mention idiots like GreenPeace who won't shut up).</p><p>Frankly, I don't buy computers based on their environmental footprint, but that's me.</p>