Sony goes green with eco-friendly netbook
While a lot of netbook manufacturers have upgraded their processors with the release of Intel’s Pineview processors, Sony has gone one up and added a few eco-friendly features to their Vaio W series of netbooks. So here’s what Sony is doing on their part to make the world a better place:
- 1/5th of the chassis is made out of recycled CD & DVD boxes. Nice.
- The netbook carry case is completely made out of recycled plastic soft drink bottles
- There’s no wastage of paper via a product manual in 17 different languages. Instead, the data has been burned to CD and is provided along with a pamphlet covering the bare essentials
- The Vaio W Eco comes shrink-wrapped within the carrying case itself, thus cutting down on excess packaging materials. A simple but effective method from Sony.
A quick roundup of the specs:
- Processor – 1.66GHz Intel N450 processor
- Graphics Chipset – GMA 3150
- OS – Windows 7 Starter
- Memory – 1 GB RAM
- Storage – 250GB HDD
- Display – 10.1 inch LED (1366×768)
- Connectivity –802,11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1
- Ports – 3USB, SD card reader, memory card reader & No HDMI
- Battery – 8 hours of battery
This is the sort of smart initiative that needs to be taken by companies and people all over the world. With simple decision of eliminating the packaging – something totally expendable and yet giving a significant benefit, Sony is showing the way forward. The Green version of its netbook costs $479.99 and is available for pre-order on amazon.
The non-green version can be picked up for $423.38 which is where Sony has missed a trick. It should be cheaper or at least the same cost to go green, to engineer a widespread revolution.
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