It is no secret that i dislike apple recently people have been getting hung up on there recycling practices to me that’s not as much of an issue. my first and foremost issue especially with the new mac book pro retina is its lack of repair-ability this thing is pretty much glued together with the ram soldered directly to the motherboard and the batteries glued to the the upper housing (blocking access to the touch pad) it also includes preparatory network and SSD cards. not to mention the “pentalobe” screwdriver to open it. because of this 1 you cant repair it like an IBM style laptop (i.e. just swap the faulty part)granted the point is to make 1-2cm thick devices personally i think that smaller is definitely not better i know it exists to fill a niche market of people that don’t need a powerful computer and only use it for checking facebook or taking notes in class (with no optical drive) like the net books but at least they are much cheaper than anything apple produces and some of the parts a replaceable with easy to find parts like using standard laptop ram (i seem to have forgotten where i was going with that)
any way the issue is that more often than not when one of these glued together laptops brakes apple replaces the entire unit granted they send it off to there recycling plant to reclaim the glass and aluminum and probably some of the components but thats not as much of the problem its that all the rare earth minerals like tantalite are used during the chip manufacturing to produce the new computer then have it shipped across the world (causing a rather high carbon footprint) granted that most components are like that but you can ship 100 dimms of ram for the same shipping size as 1 laptop
