Hmm… As an Apple user and pro-environment person I agree, but I’d like the facts from another organization. Greenpeace didn’t get all their facts correct last time. And some of us feel that Windows is a form of pollution.

If I can only get MacOSX to run on a small Sony or Panasonic laptop – I’d be happier. But no way I’m running a Dell!

And me too don’t hide that i am mac lunatic.

Let greenpice put any shit, i am not gonna buy their report. A Good organization turned into a bunch of blackmailers.
They did good things in begining but all they do now is dig and go after any company which is having name so that they can earn some money.
And then there are bunch of people who dig stories against a good company because the company didn’t changed their fathers disk for free.
Com’on, did u tried any other company? all company do the same, no one is there for a charity.

Your article should have started with the phrase…As a moron with no common sense, somehow I believe that a company that only produces 5% of the PC’s in the market but somehow maintains an average of 85% usage after 5 years can be a bigger green offender than lets say Dell, where after 5 years almost of their product line is in a landfill in China.
Your fathers inability to change a hard drive points to your ineptitude as a son, unable to help him out and save the old guy 350 Euros, shame on you.
Please, your complete lack of PC marketplace knowledge is so glaring, we readers should put on shades to read your ill researched missives on obviously something you know very little about.

Interesting comments you all made, but we need to stress this:
Apple no longer make their own hardware, Ch companies does, TRUE, but they must build up those hardware based upon Apple recommendation and process. Apple represent only 5% of the PC Market, TRUE, but Apple dominate the DAP market which cannot be neglected. Paying for Being “Green”, TRUE, but this money is not a bride nor a fine, this money is used mainly to improve things and to help reducing pollution. My Father do not know how to change a Mac Mini HDD… Well True he don’t even understand how it works, well after all at 60 years old I am not sure that EVERYBODY know how to open a Mini, which last time I tried on mine (YEPP I HAVE MINI) I had a hard time to remove the main body… and still 350 EUR in order to replace a HDD it is a lot of money

Just below the last picture of this article (the bottom of this article) you will find, the GeenPeace MAC website and the PDF where I based my article on

Apple was asked if they wanted to be the greenest on Greenpeace’s list. Apple was told they would not have to change any of their practices to be first on the list. Apple just had to pay a significant ‘Royalty’ to Greenpeace to be first. APPLE WAS FIRST UNTIL THEY REFUSED TO PAY UP.

Finally, after your article, you accepted in the comment that this all is about your fathers Hard disk.
Lack of knowledge to open a system from Apple does not mean that you start digging the company. Infact you are not supposed to that.
My own PB is not well as i broke the screen and now if apple is asking me, i think @500$ to repair it, then how come its Apples fault? I checked in market and screen will cost me @450$ but 15 days warranty while at apple, my applecare will continue for any defect, offcourse not the accidental like this, for next two years.

AND
I don’t care what ever they call the money they asked from Apple, fees or penalty or whatever, in my view, it was an extortion attempt for which apple has declined and you catch this train because u were angry because of your fathers hdd.
Simple.

Adi, you really make me laugh man, first U don’t even know me, and what I deeply think, second you don’t even know the cost of things… a HDD 80GB 2.5″ cost between 50 to 65 EUR… So 300 for the replacement fee? An LCD DO NOT COST 450 US this is BS… this will mean that there is only 50 US left for Apple in order to pay the tech to replace the screen and ALL other administrations stuff and paper, as well as stock, shipment from the manufacturer to the Apple center and so on… Yeah… Great !
Opening a PB is PLAIN Simple, a Mac Mini lord search on the web you will see, My Core Duo Mini was a pain in the X to open.

What a load of crap. GreanPeas has had it out for Apple for years, and they make up half of their data. Total crap, and I, for one, am not buying it.

I will buy a device that supports Flash; the Iphone and Ipod Touch don’t work with it and it. It is a shame because I paid for something that should work with all the elements that the web offers. Only because this guy, Jobs, doesn’t want to use Flash doesn’t mean that we have to obey him and, what is even worse, paid for something from his company.