Thursday, July 30, 2009

Apple and the environment?

Yesterday I just got my macbook pro. The notebook is amazing, but that has been written a lot of times. You probably know that Apple advertised these notebook as "The world's greenest line up of notebooks.

I think that is right for the notebooks but there is a small problem, you have to buy everything separately which means they are packed separately. This still was not be a problem if Apple would have designed the package of these accessories environment friendly. I'm not talking about the materials. I'm talking about the package size. I bought a mini-display port to dvi cable, which was packed in a 4-5 times bigger plastic bag that were necessary. I know that is not a big cost save, but it could prevent dumping a lot of waste to landfills. The other accessory that I bought is the extended warranty which was provided by the Hungarian Apple Service. It is a piece of A4 size paper folded in half, but it came in a big box. Instead of that they could put this paper in an envelope or print it on a card board or what every, just do not waste so much materials.

Anyway the product is great, and I'm very happy with everything, but this bothered me, because Apple accessories is not as green as the computers.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition


I just bought the game on friday for 8 eur. The official site is here. I still not finished, because I've never played with the original one, but I love this game. The new graphics are really nice. I like that they just redraw the game, and kept the old style arrange. The sounds are perfect. So this game is 10/10.
I know that they are making a 3d version that consist of five episodes and they are coming out with one every month. The first one is already out. You can buy it on steam.