“After almost removing itself from the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) registry two years ago, Apple is now leading the charge into the program’s new Tablets/Slates category,” Kelly Hodgkins reports for MacRumors.
“As of today, Apple’s four iPad models account for 134 of the 135 tablets on the list, although the number of entries appear to be growing nearly by the minute,” Hodgkins reports. “While Apple is represented by the various configurations of the iPad Air, the iPad mini, the iPad with Retina display and the iPad mini with Retina display, the sole non-iPad model currently on the list is the Dell Venue 11 Pro.”
MacDailyNews Take: The Who 11 What?
“Apple has a bit of a rocky history with EPEAT, notifying the environmental assessment service in 2012 that it was withdrawing its products from the registry. At the time, Apple cited “changes in its design direction which were no longer consistent with the EPEAT requirements” as the reason for this removal request,” Hodgkins reports. “EPEAT responded with a pledge to work with Apple and possibly adapt its judging standards to be more compatible with the company’s cutting edge product designs.”
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MDN’s take! ROFL!
The Who 11 What is free if you’re stupid enough to buy a computer from Dull.
Dell make a tablet ? Who knew 😱
Certainly not the 99.999999999999999999999999999999% of all humanity.
The iPads all have the same 22/27 score on the EPEAT scale. They are knocked down in the materials selection category with a 0/3 rating for apparently not using any “post-consumer recycled plastic.” Points are gained by going up a scale from “minimal to some to considerable” use of recycled plastic.
Then, the iPads were knocked down one point with a score of 1/2 in the energy usage category, because they did not either include a means of “Connecting to a renewable energy source,” or “Did not include a renewable energy source with the product.” What? A wearable beanie cap with wind turbine connected by lightning cable with an Apple logo? Hmmmmm! “Light Bulb!”
Finally, in the packaging area, the iPads got a 1/2 for not including user instructions on “proper repurposing” of the packaging.
The Who 11 What had 21/27. I did not go looking for its shortcomings.
I should mention, all those missing points were for optional items or “optional standards” while Apple hit all of the “required standards.”
“Optional standards?”
So a USB cable can’t be connected to a ‘renewable energy source’?
I’m pretty sure there are solar chargers with USB sockets, so that markdown shows the inadequacy of this whole thing.
And as for marking down for the lack of recycled plastic, words fail me.
The iPads aren’t “marked down” for not using recycled plastics,since these points are bonus points, they merely didn’t mark them up. As for the USB cable not being able to connect to a renewable energy source, of course it can. Apple could have gotten the bonus point for this by merely telling users the can connect the power to a renewable resource. Or, the same point can be had by including a renewable powersource in the box with the product. I think a sentence in the documentation is a lot more economical than putting a windmill in the box. . . besides, they’d probably lose a packaging point or two for too much packaging. LOL.