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To: AFreeBird

Between employees that live in SF and conferences in SF, quite a lot, actually.

Good for Apple ditching this idiotic standard, tho.


16 posted on 07/10/2012 11:28:16 AM PDT by NVDave
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To: NVDave
Good for Apple ditching this idiotic standard, tho.

I'm kinda on the fence about this. Older computers needed to be able to be disassembled for recycling to comply with this standard. Of course, this also meant they could be disassembled for repair. I believe the latest stink over this issue regarding Apple has to do with their newest laptops which are held together by epoxy, not screws, and have the batteries glued in.

Cheaper to manufacture, sure, but if it breaks, you throw it away (along with the battery). You can't take it apart to fix it and you can't dispose of the battery separately.

17 posted on 07/10/2012 11:38:58 AM PDT by Drew68 (I WILL vote to defeat Barack Hussein Obama!)
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