People these days just tend to do nothing but take things for granted. They want and expect to see as many things as possible, as customizable as possible, because that’s just what this industry has grown into, in a sense, while not even really requiring these “necessities.”

Personally, being in the graphic design field, this machine would serve me well with most of my needs. 2GB of RAM for this kind of a machine is just fine – that’s how much I have on my desktop computer. It would do well with portability, clearly, and when not portable, you can fuse it into some kind of a desktop solution if your “needs” aren’t as heavy as mine would tend to get.

Thank you,
Enthusiast

When the hell did someone upgrade there dell/hp/toshiba/Lenovo/Benq and a whole host of other notebooks???

I can tell you, the only upgrade you can do on my dell is replace the ram and the hard drive/optical drive
And even then you gotta go through dell for the parts for everything except the ram!!!!!

So stop running around squealing about non-upgradability and get over it!

I am an avid reader of Inhabitat.com, and I love reading articles about all the different stuff every day! I have looked into this whole deal with Apple, and I have thought about it a good deal.

I have read around many technology blogs, seeing too much of the same thing, repeatedly; People saying it’s overpriced, non-upgradeable, not really green, and complaining about the internal processes of manufacturing. If this is such a concern, why don’t you just give Apple PR a call and see what they have to say, and do some further research into it?

Phil, that is probably the most negative thing I have read about Apple, and their efforts to go green and develop more efficient products. Now, even if the computer was “waste” after 2 years, it’s the owner’s job to properly take of the “waste,” since it is your property. Here we see Apple trying to make a difference taking whatever baby steps it can, using LED displays, PVC free plastics, easily recyclable aluminum, and you are calling it a fabrication mechanism. That’s not really fair, is it? Put yourself in Apple’s shoes, how would you feel about people responding similar to this about your efforts to make a difference?

Realistically, when you’re on the go, do you really plug in multiple peripherals in the computer? Do you really need to lug around an extra battery that you’d have to shut the computer down for anyway? I mean, electric outlets are pretty much everywhere now – even in cars!

I’ve even heard from some people that Apple’s green doings are exaggerated and they’re not as “green” as it sounds like it is. Rather that is true or not, at least it’s SOME effort, and more companies should be attempting it.

I stand strong with Apple’s efforts to go green, and as technology advances, it will become more easier to be greener. I also stand strong with Apple’s decisions they are making technologically with hardware, software, and services. They have a very “plant a tree and watch it grow” type of a methodology, which has been proven to work several times. I am willing to elaborate on the technicalities of the steps Apple are taking, so if anyone’s interested, lemme know. :)

All the best,
Enthusiast

It is ok if you like the design of this product. Calling it green is evidently false, though.

it’s not upgradeable, and the only reason to buy apple products now that they’re on intel architecture is they’re pretty. they don’t do a thing better than win xp, or many linux builds, and security through obscurity isn’t.

other vendors make MUCH greener, lower footprint machines that are upgradeable and play well with others.

wake up and smell the digital coffee. open architecture and open source are generally greener in terms of distributed workload interoperability (my widget dies so i put in a replacement widget instead of buy a whole new machine)

apple does charge more for it’s parts. on average 150~200% more for hardware, and if you think the installation labour isn’t priced into the replacement of a part i’ve got a nice bridge to sell you.

Apple isn’t asking significantly more money than their competition for similar products.

Apple, you just know what we want .. But what we want sometimes we just can’t afford .. :-(

Kuddhos to the movers and shakers at Apple.

B.