Apple has announced a significant acceleration of its efforts to expand the usage of recycled materials across all of its products, including a new aim of using 100% recycled cobalt in all batteries made by Apple by the year 2025. In addition, all Apple-designed printed circuit boards will use 100% … [continued]
Apple’s redesigned flagship offering, the Mac Pro, should be reaching its first batch of pro-level customers and power users as you read this. Along with a radical external redesign (that doesn’t at all resemble a trash bin, I swear), Apple took steps to avoid the EPEAT issues it faced with … [continued]
Apple recently released Mac OS X Mavericks, which all Mac users should happily know, since the new operating system is a free upgrade even for Mac users with very old operating systems (it’s free for Macs dating back to 2007 and operating systems as far back as Snow Leopard). Aside … [continued]
While many of us are horrified at the idea of using anything but an Apple product, the computing hulk has rankled environmentally conscious users with its veto of a common green certification. Last week, Apple pulled all 39 of its laptops, monitors, and desktops out of the Electronic Product … [continued]
Steve Jobs’ absence hasn’t prevented exciting things from happening at this week’s MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. This morning, Apple unveiled the new 17 inch MacBook Pro, complete with a new energy efficient lithium-polymer battery.
A couple weeks ago Apple filed a patent to explore the use of solar power in their next generation of mobile devices. With battery life being a long running issue for Apple’s laptops and mobile phones, solar power could help extend use time without having to plug in. The patent … [continued]
