Every election year, our government is inundated with new ideas that are enacted with no possible hope for future funding, so these organizations limp along, operating on the ideal, not the idea, which is what America has been doing for a hundred years.

We are still the greatest shell of a nation that ever was, but I don’t hold much promise for these United States, which are becoming more people-like each day, and in the end, my sense is, we’re fast becoming a nation of fifty people and not the homogenous happy group our forefathers envisioned.

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Fuck money! I hate it because I don’t have any and I need it too badly to think straight. But what is truly sad is, the rich feel the same; they don’t have enough either, that’s why we’re fucked, even the rich aren’t happy!

Now we’re caught up in this farcical lie over money and the way the “adults” among us were caught red-handed trying to pretend they knew what was wrong when in fact their ignorance has only made things worse and delayed a full recovery.

The point is, we haven’t hit bottom yet! We’re still in free fall and we’re worried about the environment?

The federal government should get out of California so that we can build our own utopia. 👿

Being a complete Apple fanatic i am usually quick to defend my beloved Apple, but this time i held back.

I decided it was fair on my part to research the market on current ram and ssd prices before i cast judgement on the guy. He is right about the prices. Dont know why i never paid attention to this before. Could be because i can easily afford Apple products and as a result overlooked things that someone financially challenged wouldn’t be able to, or might be, i am an not so smart either.

The other stuff he wrote is plausable
when one takes into account the untrustworthy nature of major corporations today.

When all is said and done i have to say with a resounding “YES” the Retina Macbook Pro can easily be made user upgradable and still maintain its current form factor.

Apple doesn’t have to “disguise” anything. So long as they can justify it, buyers are more than willing to pay whatever premium Apple sets for their products.

This I far more about size, weight, and battery life. If Apple continued to follow the EPEAT standard in its current form, they would simply have to sacrifice one or more of those things. And Apple has never been big into the sacrifice (except the human sacrifices they all had to perform when they sold their souls to Microsoft back around the turn-of-the-century; thankfully, it wasn’t a typical sale, but a short-term lease).

And comparing Apple’s components with those available on NewEgg isn’t an apples-to-apples comparison.ive had much lower rates of failure with Apple RAM and HDD/SSD than with top-of-the-line components I’ve bought separately from other sources. So again, of the premium is justified through real-world use, Apple has nothing to gain for a “secret plan to drive up the price”.

BTW, Fox Mulder called and wants his paranoia back.

16gb of ram cost aboout $99 at newegg, how much does Apple charge?

512gb SSD starts at $399 @ newegg, how much does Apple charge? And guess what folks, prices are still on the decline on these components.

Based on current ram and SSD pricing an 16gb of ram and 512gb ssd configured Retina macbook Pro should be about $350 less.

Apple’s claim that their current and future product design plans is the deciding factor for their abandonment of EPEAT is really nothing but a cleverly disquised anticompetitive consumer ripoff business plan that was deliberately allowed to slowly evolved to evade government scrutiny.

Apple is working towards a single specification that covers just about everything that makes a product environmentally friendly, no trust recycling.

Furthermore, I don’t understand how gluing two things together makes something less recyclable. Sure, it might make it harder to recycle, but Apple’s partners may already have a solution in place for it. I’d also like to point out that battery “bricks” are permanently sealed and the enclosures have to be broke open to remove the cells. How is that any easier?

Apple instead makes solid products that last as long as you need them to without failing. They also happen to use less power, and are lighter. The trade-off? You have to use specialized tools to break them down at end of life. Apple’s solution? Take the product back and creat a full closed-loop.

EPEAT’s approach is designed so a 6 year old Indian child can take the metal bits out before burning the plastic.

Apple’s approach is exactly what a real sustainability expert will tell you is the right way to do it.

Oh and never mind that Apple’s attitude toward the environment is actually BETTER than that needed to qualify for EPEAT. That’s too complicated for you to comprehend, so it has to be bad. Right?

Hopeless.

With Macs, iPhone, and IPads that Feds might be more productive which means they will find more ways to be corrupt and screw you and me. Therefore, having them toil away on Windows machines, typically running XP, willslow them down a bit–which cannot be a bad thing.

The real reason that a democratic government is inefficient is that the bosses — the people — have gotten so lazy that they accept only a candidate from either corrupt party A or B to run the show. Result: corrupt parties do the bidding of their funders, not what you or I want.

If you want a better government that is responsible to you, elect better representatives, don’t bitch about (and mis-spell) your government.

2. Political correctness. EPEAT is the politically correct standard, never mind reality.

1) why exactly Apple quit this rating, really?

2) if USA’s government backs stricter Energy Star instead, why it cares whether Apple participates in softer, older EPEAT standard?

What a shocker! A match made in heaven.