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Greenpeace has ranked top electronics companies on their attitudes towards ecology. In addition to what toxic materials are used in manufacturing, the report on "greeness", for example, considers how the recyclingof old products is handled and how ecological issues areconsidered in company processes and decisions.

7 Nokia – Good but room for improvement on amounts recycled.

7 Dell – Points lost for not yet having models without the worst chemicals. Strong support for takeback.

5.7 Hewlett Packard – Timelines only to provide plan for toxics phase out. Good on amounts recycled.

5.3 Sony Ericsson – Some models without some of the worst chemicals, but bad on precautionary principle and take back.

5 Samsung – Points for toxic phase out but not good on take back and recycling.

4.7 Sony – Some models without the worst chemicals, but bad on precautionary principle and take back.

4.3 LGE – Points for toxic phase out date but bad on take back.

3.3 Panasonic – Only good on chemicals management.

3 Toshiba – Some models without the worst chemicals, but no timelines for elimination and poor on takeback.

3 Fujitsu-Siemens – Points for some models free of worst chemicals, but poor on takeback.

2.7 Apple – Low scores on almost all criteria.

2.3 Acer – Should do better on all criteria. More

1.7 Motorola – Points for chemicals management. Recently broke clean up promise.

1.3 Lenovo – The lowest score of all companies.

For more details, see
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/toxics/electronics/how-the-companies-line-up

Apple has introduced 3 new "Get a Mac" TV ads:
"Accident", "Angle/Devil" and "Trust Mac"

See them at
http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

苹果最近又开始召回一批有问题的电池了。如果你在美国，只要在网上登记，经确认后，苹果会寄给你电池，收到后你把新电池寄回去就行了。但是如果你在中国呢？

njneon在一个帖子中透露，维修中心称要将保修卡、电脑连同电池送回维修中心，当面核对所谓的条码，其后再等4-6周才能拿到电池。维修中心公然声称，网上所验证的电脑序号及电池序号，没有任何作用。苹果的800的说法相同，njneon说这与其在网上公布的办法不符，苹果的800说，网上的办法只针对美国的，而其它环太平洋地区都是采取经上的办法处理，并声称，不满意可以去投诉，一付满不在乎的样子。

davis证实，“不單止是內地，香港這邊也是一樣處理手法。”

philip的情况比njneon好一点，800表示可以联系服务中心要求寄换。他联系了服务点，服务点称把电脑跟电池一起拿过去才有得换。花了十分钟跟她解释电脑跟这次换电池一点关系也没有后，最后同意只是寄电池过去，但是却要签一份《寄送维修协议书》，这份东西里面还竟然有什么检查费用的字眼。于是他换了一家服务点。不需要把电脑一起寄过去，也不需要任何的保修卡或什么送修协议书。当然必须先把旧电池寄过去，而不可以等把新电池寄过来后再寄回旧电池。

njneon的帖子：
http://www.sinomac.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=15051&forum=14

我在苹果的官方网站上找到了这样一段话：
“在美国、加拿大、南美、日本和欧洲，iBook 和 PowerBook G4 电脑的电池更换计划是通过电池更换网站 http://support.apple.com/batteryprogram 进行的。如果您所在的国家没有列入上述网站，请致电 Apple 或联系您所在地区的服务供应商或经销商寻求，并向他们递交您的电池更换申请。

澳大利亚和亚洲（日本除外）的用户可以联系当地 Apple 授权的服务供应商，获得更换的电池。”
（http://www.apple.com/support/batteryexchange/2006/cn/faq/）

从上面的情况来看，苹果公司对不同地区的用户采用了不同的政策，而且Apple中国各地的维修中心具体执行的政策又各不相同，比较混乱。

Novell launched [0]a Linux/Open Source story page where everyone can briefly describe how he/she helps pushing Linux or Open Source forward. For every submission a marker is set on a world map.

http://www.novell.com/linux/ready/

The $100 MIT Laptop is now going to cost $140. It has a new name Children’s Machine 1 (CM1). The added price comes with new features! The laptop will now come with a 400 MHz AMD processor, 512 Megs
of Flash storage, an SD card slot, mic and headphone jacks, a built in camera, built-in wireless, and an 8-inch LCD at a 1280×900 resolution.

Tremendous progress has been made this summer on the Sugar user interface system that will be shipped with the CM1. Funded by Google through the Summer of Code (SoC) initiative, intrepid college student Erik Pukinskis has collaborated with the GNOME development community to adapt AbiWord for use with the portable Linux system. Although still experimental, AbiWord has successfully been integrated into the Sugar environment.