EPEAT Caves in to Apple
I just got this from iFixit.com - a resource that has saved many a computer for me. Another case proving that "self-regulation" rarely, if ever, works. EPEAT is now just a puppet of its corporate paymasters.
Remember when we discovered that you can't even replace the battery in the Retina MacBook Pro?
We were hopeful that the green standards folks would do something about it. Now, they've caved in to Apple.
There was a flurry this summer when Apple announced that they would be leaving EPEAT soon after releasing the unfixable Retina MacBook Pro—then, two weeks later, apologized and resubmitted all their products to the registry. Since July, the EPEAT product verification committee has been busy making their decision. Now, the results are in.
The Retina MacBook Pro—the least repairable, least recyclable computer I have encountered in more than a decade of disassembling electronics—was just verified EPEAT "Gold."
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