Sustainability and greening are the hot topics of the moment, roughly 100 years on from Nikolai Tesla’s experiments with electricity that gave us this wonderful current through our villages and cities, we, as a responsible race have looked to make these tools as energy efficient as possible.

Green Laptops

There’s a great new showing of Buckminster Fullers work at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art in New York now running till the 21st of September, and , when I read about how keen he was to make the most out of limited supplies, I correlated his work with my newest technological toy and current love, the MacBook Air.

As well as receiving the popular vote in a three way usability test recently, the MacBook Air has in fact been praised by Treehugger, they quote a Businessweek article written by Bruce Nussbaum that states

It doesn’t have mercury or arsenic in its LCD and glass. The aluminum frame can be recycled. The circutry is PVC free. And there is less packing material than other laptops. 

Also remember that the MacBook Air has an LED backlit display which saves power, and uses a maximum of 45 watts at peak operation, a regular MacBook uses 60 Watts, and MacBook Pro’s can use 85 watts at peak, that means your air is using half of a standard incandescant bulb at it’s very hardest, most of the time, the air is using under 20 watts!