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Buying an environmentally friendly laptop to save the earth
Buying a laptop is a wise environmental decision compared to buying a desktop computer. The main reason is that a notebook is smaller than a desktop computer, so at the time of disposal it has a lower environmental impact. The slim size of the flat laptop means that smaller and less hazardous parts can be thrown away, such as hard drives, CD / DVD drives, flash card readers, USB ports, etc. The production of ever smaller laptops also indirectly as processing plants produce less harmful emissions to the environment. Another factor that makes laptops a better environmental decision is the fact that most laptops now comply with European lead-free processing regulations such as WEEE (Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment) and RoHS (Restrictions of Hazardous Substances). which are mandatory codes in Europe. Lead is mainly used to solder parts on a computer, but these regulations encourage companies to use other methods to build a computer.
An interesting player on the ecological laptop market is the project “one laptop per child”. Their mission is to produce an inexpensive laptop – the “XO Laptop” – with the aim of revolutionizing the way children are educated around the world. The aim of the project is to hand over laptops to people from third world countries who would not otherwise have access to this technology. But the project also proves that laptops can be produced very cheaply – laptops weighing less than a kilogram and requiring no electricity.
However, despite the advances in the world of green laptops, there are still many problems that need to be resolved to produce an even greener laptop. In 2009, worldwide laptop sales are expected to outperform desktops for the first time in history. The average person will only keep a laptop for three years before it is thrown in a closet or thrown in the trash, putting an emphasis on making a laptop even more recyclable. Some problems that still need to be solved and some possible solutions:
1. Problem: Plastic filled with petroleum. Solution: Make corn laptops using bioplastics-polymers. The main problem at this point is creating a heat-resistant polymer that can withstand the heat from a laptop.
2. Problem: Power. Solution: Use the power of the sun to charge your laptop. Work is underway on solar powered chargers.
3. Problem: Lead products in waste. Solution: As mentioned above, the European Union has introduced legal restrictions on lead. President Bush also followed suit in introducing standards for the use of lead in America.
4. Problem: Spinning hard drives. Solution: Future laptops can reduce energy consumption by up to 10 percent by replacing hard drives with flash memory that has no energy-consuming moving parts. Dell debuted this year with a laptop with a 32-gigabyte SSD drive.
Among the winners of recent eco-friendly laptop awards are: XO Laptop, Toshiba Portege R500, HP 2710p, Lenovo Thinkpad X300 and Dell D630.
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Source by Mike T Martin
