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How Green is the MacBook Air? |
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
 The EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) is a website that rates how green a product is. You can recieve a Bronze, Silver or Gold star depending on you how well your product ranks in on a specified 28 point system. The Mac Book Air comes in with a silver star. However, Lenovo's X300 gets a gold star. The problem is, there isn't really anything different.
Lenovo gets the gold star for having 21 of 28 optional points, and the MBA gets a silver for getting 19 out of the 28. Two points the Lenovo get that the MBA doesn't are for renewable power supply (a $1200, 80lb solar charger), and that Lenovo releases their global impact report (the Global Reporting Initiative, GRI), and Apple will not. So, the MBA and the X300 both are technically a silver star, but because Apple won't release trade secret data, and there is a 3rd party vendor that sells an 80lb recharable battery, Lenovo gets a gold and Apple gets a Silver.
Ted Samson goes into more detail.
EPEAT website.
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