Top Five Green Laptops - Apple MacBook Air

If you're a Mac lover, Apple has a "green" laptop for you. Consider buying the MacBook Air. A recyclable aluminum case encloses the system. Its 13.3-inch widescreen LED display does not contain mercury or arsenic. As a result, this not only helps to conserve energy, but the battery life, which is low-powered, lasts longer. The circuit boards that make up the MacBook Air are free of both BFR and PVC. The MacBook Air has 50 percent less packaging than prior MacBooks. EPEAT has given this laptop a silver rating.

Don't think for a minute that just because it is a "green" product that Apple sacrificed quality. It's quite the contrary. The MacBook Air is packed with cutting-edge features, including a large multi-touch trackpad and full-size keyboard.

If you're concerned about the laptop's weight, you'll be happy to know that the MacBook Air is super thin and light. It's about as thin as your index finger. Thinness played a dominant role in engineering this product. Two things that made this possible are invisible I/O ports, which are covered by a hatch, and a slim hard drive. You can get to these I/O ports by flipping up the hatch.

The MacBook Air also has advanced wireless capabilities in that it supports wireless N technology. To take wireless N technology to a higher level, Apple dropped the optical drive. Instead, you'll be using wireless N to rent movies from the iTunes Store.

Are you worried about how you're going to back up your files, without an optical drive? Apple took care of that, too. You can use Apple's new Time Capsule feature to back up your files wirelessly. Apple realizes you may still need the use of an optical drive for certain things, such as installing software. So it has a feature, Remote Disc, which allows you to wirelessly use another Mac or PC's optical drive in the area. Of course, you must install the Remote Disc in that other MAC or PC in order for two systems to be able to communicate wirelessly.