MacBook Pro Retina Display 15 inci Menerima Sertifikasi EPEAT

Berdasarkan berita yang kami kutip dari MacRumors, MBP Retina 15" telah mendapatkan sertifikasi Gold dari EPEAT.

Hal ini tentunya sangat mengejutkan karena seperti yang kita tahu, salah satu ketentuan EPEAT perihal keramahan sebuah produk adalah produk tersebut harus mudah dibongkar. Tapi, Apple merakit MBP Retina 15" menjadi sebuah produk yang susah dibongkar. Bagiamana tidak, baterainya saja dilem dengan kuat ke bagian casing.

Sebelumnya, Apple sempat mundur dari EPEAT, namun tidak berapa lama kemudian, Bob Mansfield menyatakan bahwa Apple kembali ke peraturan EPEAT.

Dan ini bukti persetujuan EPEAT tersebut.

Kyle Wiens, anggota iFixit mengatakan keputusan ini telah menandakan bahwa standard EPEAT telah turun hingga ke level yang memprihatinkan.

Apple’s Retina MacBook Pro – the least repairable, least recyclable computer I have encountered in more than a decade of disassembling electronics – was just verified Gold, along with four other ultrabooks. This decision demonstrates that the EPEAT standard has been watered down to an alarming degree. […]

At best, the interpretation of the EPEAT Gold standard is laughably out of touch. At worst, it means recyclers a decade from now may be faced with a mountain of electronic waste they cannot affordably recycle without custom disassembly fixtures and secret manufacturer information.

Unfortunately, getting highly specific language into a standard like EPEAT is challenging because manufacturers claim it limits future innovation. So when language does finally make it into the standard, it’s critical to rigorously enforce it.

Where language is ambiguous, decisions must consider the goals of the standard, or risk negating its purpose entirely. The updated definitions systematically weaken the 1680.1 standard.

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