Dell says Apple is greenwashing its gear

not something i ever think about is 'how green is my pc' and nor to be honest have i ever noticed any claims of this from any of them so i can only assume this tells you that none of them are very green

Oh, and none of these companies give a shit about being "green." The only green they are concerned with is money.

I have a Dell and it sucks.

if you take all the iphones and i pods and imacs and the rest of the icrap and consider that they sell like crazy, you'd figure that all of that is plastic won't decompose well and captain planet won't approve.

who cares mac kills dell anyday lol APPLE is numero uno! green or not handsdown number one.

it will be ok dell...in the new world of computing you can still make your expensive paper weights

Hey at least Mac has a video to show what their computer is made of, as well as how it is made.

I got one, and green or not, its effing sweet. It blows my old Compaq out of the water.

greenpeace rankings:

dell- 4.7
hp- 4.5
apple- 4.3

those scores are out of 10. basically, they all suck and should shut up and get their sh*t together. apple stop running the adds. dell quit your whining and give us an actual reason to buy your products.

I think that this is yet another marketing scheme. Mac's are doing extremely well now that Microsoft Vista proves to be the most horrible development by Microsoft...so far. And Dell just wants a share of the market.

Green or not green, I'd still go with the Apple notebook. Dell's are garbage!...I don't know if its because it runs on Microsoft, or the quality of it is just horrible. Plus, I don't think most people think about how environmentally friendly a laptop is before purchasing it anyway.

As long as Dell makes computers that run Microsoft products, Apple will win. Period. I don't care if Apple was made out of coal.

And yet both didn't give a hoot until 'green' turned into a marketing term.

Is Apple claiming to have greener products, or that the company is green?

Mac's cost more, and money is green (at least in some places). Does that mean Macs are greener?

For all that Apple is doing to attract customers by claiming to be greener than any other computer company, the fact of the matter is that Apple computers are better. I'm not just saying this as a devout Apple customer, it's simply true.

There are definitely ways in which PCs have always dominated. PCs are still the computers of business and office networks, but for personal computers, Apple is really starting to take a chunk out of consumer market.

The last thing that PCs, Dell especially, has going for them is that they're cheap. A person can get a laptop for $300. An Apple machine is going to set you back at least $1000 in most cases and that's at least. I just got a new MacBook Pro for $2000. But I know that with this purchase, I won't have to buy another computer for some time. My roommate bought a Dell laptop last year and it already crapped out on her.

The fact of the matter is that you get what you pay for and green or not, you're getting a better machine with a Mac.

I dunno. Apple's moved from heavy use of plastic to metals (recyclable), real glass screens (recyclable) and dell is using...plastic. Everywhere. In every line up.

Apple's metal casing on all computers really pushes them towards the greener of the bunch, but the plastic backed iphone was a bit of a kick in the groin. I LOVE my first gen with its metal backing.

On the flip side they have a LOT of excessive packing material; even if it is recycled material it's excessive. You didn't need to use plastic to wrap the cords, cover the screen, etc etc etc.

Has anyone actually ordered from Apple? If not, I would suggest you do before saying the story is false. It's not about the purchase, check what it shipped and the parts.

Next time you write an article, use some quotes.

the fact that dell vp's have time to blog about their competition should tell you something about their business model... instead of complaining about it, just make a better computer...

and as i type this on my new ultra-green macbook, i'm still happy with my purchase

It's all about the money, Dell isn't really concerned about the environment.

This is just another level of competition and an effort to lure consumers to one side or the other. Remember, sales across the board are suffering so resorting to these "tactics" shouldn't surprise anyone.

There's the issue of moral panic that has taken over our country and if a corporation can take advantage of it in some way, they will.

and the curious bit is that according to greenpeace dell, HP and Apple are pretty much at the same level when it comes to green-ness:

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/consumer-electronics-not-so-green