catkin's blog

Until recently, power consumption in use has received most attention and laptops have been judged the greenest. A more balanced appreciation of life-cycle costs is growing, especially of the very high environmental costs of manufacturing and distribution. Perhaps long life is environmentally more important than low power consumption in use.

Without dependable data on the non-financial life cycle cost of computers, both laptop and desktop, it is hard for consumers to choose the least harmful. Meanwhile how about this list of discriminators?