Topics about preserving the environment are so popular these days. Many companies all over the world are now creating measures to be more environment-friendly. One of the good practices to save mother earth is to buy a laptop instead of a desktop PC. A laptop is a compact version of a desktop PC, which means that parts and components are smaller. Making smaller parts will mean less harmful emissions from the manufacturing plants. And in terms of disposal, a laptop will mean lesser waste compared to the desktop PC. Another good thing to note is the fact that many laptop makers today are now complying with environmental standards such as Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment and Restrictions of Hazardous Substances.
An interesting player in the eco-friendly laptop market is the “one Laptop Per Child” project. Their missions is to produce a low cost laptop – the “XO Laptop” – in order to revolutionize the way the world’s children are educated. The purpose of the project is to get laptops in the hands of people in third world countries that would not otherwise have access to this technology. But the project is also proving that laptops can be produced for a very low cost – laptops which weigh less than one kilogram and rely on no electricity.
We already see the boom of laptop sales these recent years. Many are predicting that laptop will eventually replace the desktop computer in the long run. Studies would show that an average laptop will stay and be used by the owner for a period of 3 years and after that it then goes to the garbage. And this is another issue that we should address as humans. In the following section you will see some insights about the issue of disposal and some ideas that may address the issue.
1. Problem: Most laptop housing nowadays are made of petroleum-filled plastics. Solution: Plastics or polymer is an old technology that is still evolving until now. Maybe scientists can design a polymer that can easily decompose; this should not be far from reality.
2. Problem: Laptop’s power supply. Solution: Solar powered laptop. It is beneficial to the environment to use the sun’s power to help recharge your laptop.
3. Problem: Disposed lead products. Solution: As mentioned, European regulations have now enforced the use of lead-free materials in producing computers. In the US, these standards are now also being followed.
4. Problem: Spinning hard drives. Solution: Use of flash memory hard drives. With the use of this type of hard drive, there will be no excessive usage of watts due to the moving parts of the hard drive. This helps reduce energy usage to up to 10 percent. This year, Dell has introduced a laptop that offers a 32 GB solid-state hard drive.
Some recent awards winners for laptops that are friendly to the environment include: XO Laptop, Toshiba Portege R500, HP 2710p, Lenovo Thinkpad X300, and the Dell D630.
Michael, the writer of this article is a part time blogger. He owns a laptop related blog which features news and reviews about small laptops. If you think this article is helpful, head over to his blog to read other posts contributed by him. The latest laptop review on his blog currently is the Asus Eee PC 1005HA review.
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