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Re:City of San Francisco Will No Longer Buy Apple Products by rimantas on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @05:29AM (#4228494) 

  > in older models you could easily replace the battery
I wonder which variant of the battery is more environmentally friendly (including production): the one produced as separate unit, with casing and all, or the type used in Apple devices. Also, retina MBP may be more difficult to disassemble. However it uses less materials, what's the net outcome?
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Re:City of San Francisco Will No Longer Buy Apple Products by Symmetry on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @08:09AM (#4228866)
The casing is probably going to be the part of the laptop that impacts the environment the least, except for the carbon emissions used to manufacture it.
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