As we move towards a sustainable future, tech companies are trying to cut down their carbon footprint in the environment by reducing e-waste emissions and using reusable and recyclable materials for their products. Amongst others, Dell is one of the leading laptop brands that aim to drastically reduce the carbon footprint of their products and achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years. So now, the US-based company has revealed a new design concept for a laptop that uses sustainable components and can be easily repaired by users using spare parts.
Dubbed as Concept Luna, the proof-of-concept laptop has been developed by the design team at Dell in collaboration with Intel. In a recent blog post, Dell detailed the laptop and highlighted the revolutionary design ideas that could drastically increase the longevity of the device’s life cycle and allow recyclers to easily disassemble it for reusability.
Now, although a shrunk-down motherboard could drastically reduce the amount of carbon footprint of the laptop, it could have less room for individual components and sockets. While all-in-one chipsets like the Apple M1 SoCs include the CPU, GPU, and the RAM on a single board, repair experts say it could have a “devastating” impact on the repairability of the devices as users cannot easily upgrade the storage of these devices.
