Usually, the annual MacWorld keynote speech always brings in some goodies for the eco geeks. This year they managed to please everyone by announcing that new battery in the all-new 17-inch MacBook Pro is now 60% more efficient.

The battery is expected to run for more than 8 hours on a single charge, allows more than 1000 charges (that’s like 5 years) and is recyclable. It sure sounds green to me, but there’s more to it. It also got an EPEAT Gold award for being arsenic, BFR, mercury and PVC free.

Other than these, there’s also a smart chip within the battery that deal with each cell to make adjustments to the current for each cell, making it last three times longer than the industry’s standard. And did we mention that the battery is just as thing and just as light?

Though the user is still not able to change the battery itself, we think Apple has taken a big step forward. Don’t you?

Photo via Gizmodo : Live @ Macworld

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Dell is trying to reduce the packaging waste by 10% in the next four years. Using green packages for their products – intensive recycling and sustainability programs, the company will help preserve “more than 150,000 trees” and should see a drop in costs by some $8.1 million.

The effort is to integrate an “air-filled cushion technology and renewable materials including molded pulp cushions and recycled High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) thermal-formed cushions”. Most materials they’ll recycle, are milk jugs and laundry detergent bottles – 2 million of these.

Meanwhile, Dell is trying to prove they’ve embraced the “green road” and announced that their Greenprint Advisor, a free web-based resource center is now available for U.S. businesses and organizations to evaluate their green initiatives. It’s expected to go globally soon, too.

Any other manufacturers to at least look green? – via TGDaily