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Most of these comments make me embarassed to be a mac user. Who cares that Greenpeace aren't going after Dell? Apple's environmental performance isn't good enough, and this is a campaign that may force them to do better. Good on them.

If any of the negative posters had thought carefully about this, you might have realised that this is a positive campaign aimed at making the products you buy better and more sustainable - how on earth can that be a bad thing? In a way, I'm surprised that it's taken Greenpeace to set this running - we mac users should be running a campaign like this ourselves! Kudos to Anthony for his email to Steve Jobs regarding an eco-friendly computer though, we need a lot more mac users to do this. Greenpeace understand that the most effective way to change corporate behaviour is to raise awareness among consumers, and that's exactly what they're doing.

And in response to the clueless posts like 'if we stop paying attention to them, they'll go away' and calling what they're doing 'ridiculous propaganda', don't you realise that this stuff affects you too? Do you want heavy metals in your water supply? Toxic chemicals leeching out of landfill into the food chain? Apple has now sold over 60 million ipods - where do you think they are going to end up? Wouldn't it be more useful to recycle them, rather than burying thousands of cubic metres of metal and plastic underground? What a waste.
@ morty salt

No, please no... it's bad enough in the UK already with kids playing their bangin choons through their mobile phone's speaker on the bus / train. Last thing we need is an antisocial ipod too.
The problem for me is that I don't think the current PB is anything special at all - it's no longer good value and the tech hasn't advanced significantly for two years. I also don't want a 1st gen Intel PB, for pretty much the same reasons Shaun (no. 15) gave. So unless the next revision is a) soon and b) a nice step forward (e.g. screen, battery life, 7448 would be nice) then my next laptop won't be a mac. There's nothing I do that I absolutely have to have OSX for, and I can get a much more powerful and usable machine from another manufacturer. I'll be sad about that, and this is why Apple is moving to Intel after all, but for me Apple don't offer the right solution at the moment.
Might be worth it for the lower power consumption & heat output. The 1.67s I tried out in the Apple Store the other day were scorching hot, I was amazed. This could make them more attractive.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I'm looking for a wireless trackpad to use with my older (2.5 or so years old) C2D MacBook that's perpetually docked to my home theater. Something sleek, thin, not too small, made of high quality materials. Ideally, it would natively support all of (Snow) Leopard's multitouch inputs, and even more ideally, it would have a charging dock / base. The only problem is that I'm not sure that such a thing even exists. Think you can throw me a bone?"
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