Judging by the final photograph, the bamboo cover is just a pull-off accessory - surely the manufacturing effort involved in chopping down the bamboo, feeding it through a big pulping machine, putting the pulp in a mould, forming it into mock-planks, and then cutting the resulting goo would outweigh the environmental benefits of a rottable cover?
Perhaps in the future laptop cases can be grown in vats, and ultimately perhaps the laptop's components can be grown. Right now it would probably be more environmentally friendly to make a laptop that can easily and indefinitely be upgraded to an acceptable standard of use, thus postponing its disposal; or to adopt a mindset whereby laptops are not thrown away after eighteen months because there is a newer and more attractive model available. The kind of people likely to buy a flashy bamboo-covered laptop are the kind of people who are likely to throw it away after eight months in order to buy the next latest model (perhaps grass-covered).
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Judging by the final photograph, the bamboo cover is just a pull-off accessory - surely the manufacturing effort involved in chopping down the bamboo, feeding it through a big pulping machine, putting the pulp in a mould, forming it into mock-planks, and then cutting the resulting goo would outweigh the environmental benefits of a rottable cover?
Perhaps in the future laptop cases can be grown in vats, and ultimately perhaps the laptop's components can be grown. Right now it would probably be more environmentally friendly to make a laptop that can easily and indefinitely be upgraded to an acceptable standard of use, thus postponing its disposal; or to adopt a mindset whereby laptops are not thrown away after eighteen months because there is a newer and more attractive model available. The kind of people likely to buy a flashy bamboo-covered laptop are the kind of people who are likely to throw it away after eight months in order to buy the next latest model (perhaps grass-covered).