apple.com— To complie with EU regulations, Apple's iSight camera and AirPort Extreme base station have been removed from the Apple Store's across Europe (which was why the store was down this morning)
Jun 26, 2006View in Crawl 4
No they are different products. They look different, don't they? (one is a big round thing with a cable, the other is a tiny square thing inside your laptop).
kudos for Apple.. i'm glad they are working towards RoHS.. its not easy transforming into RoHS certifiable electronics, since lead free solder melt at a higher temp. this could lead to some components' failure. I just hope prices don't go up, through the endless tests for RoHS compliancy.
On my 17" MBP's box it says that the LCD backlight contains Mecrury. I thought the same thing, why aren't the MacBooks a problem? Maybe it has to contain a significant amount of those materials.
hipnerdJun 26, 2006
@khiddy: You are right. No idea why people are modding you down.
orangetideJun 26, 2006
No they are different products. They look different, don't they? (one is a big round thing with a cable, the other is a tiny square thing inside your laptop).
djhashJun 26, 2006
kudos for Apple.. i'm glad they are working towards RoHS.. its not easy transforming into RoHS certifiable electronics, since lead free solder melt at a higher temp. this could lead to some components' failure. I just hope prices don't go up, through the endless tests for RoHS compliancy.
balazsJun 26, 2006
what regulations?
jkettermanJun 26, 2006
On my 17" MBP's box it says that the LCD backlight contains Mecrury. I thought the same thing, why aren't the MacBooks a problem? Maybe it has to contain a significant amount of those materials.
orielJun 26, 2006
Well it's a big deal for those of us who are actually in the EU.
cwoolf34Jun 26, 2006
No it isn't, they have had that since they announced it.
t3hxJun 27, 2006
There are built-in ones on all of the intel Macs (except the Mac Mini).