“I’m not sure which is more surprising: that Dell would publicly criticize Apple’s environmental claims in a post to the company’s Direct2Dell blog or that anyone would pay any attention whatsoever to that post, which is poorly researched and as unwieldy and silly as late ’90s-era Inspiron,” John Paczkowski writes for AllThingsD.
MacDailyNews Take: Come on, John; Dell’s current OS-limited Inspirons are as just as unwieldy and silly.
Paczkowski continues, “Like a heckler emboldened by one-too-many Prairie Dogs, Dell lobs (DELL) catcalls at Apple’s latest MacBook ad, which claims the machine is the “greenest” notebook on the market, thanks to its environmentally responsible unibody enclosure and the recyclable materials from which it’s made. Dell apparently finds such claims to be disingenuous and would prefer us all to think that its notebooks are the greenest.”
“One would think that any company planning to accuse Apple of making bogus claims about green laptops and failing to engage in a meaningful dialogue about its environmental obligations would conduct the due diligence necessary to back them up,” Paczkowski writes. “Not Dell, though.”
“Because if the company had done its due diligence, surely it would have stumbled across Steve Jobs’s ‘A Greener Apple’ essay, which details the company’s efforts to remove toxic chemicals from its products and to recycle its older products. It might have found Apple’s 2008 Environmental Update as well. That document explains, in a fair bit of detail, the company’s efforts to temper the environmental impact not just of Apple products, but the company’s facilities, and offers a nice overview of Apple’s recycling program and Supplier Code of Conduct, too,” Paczkowski writes.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Dell is dead. And it sounds like they know it.
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