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I'm mad about Apple's packaging today
Apple wraps all of their laptops in the densist cardboard ever perfectly packaging the MacBook or Studio inside (I do corporate IT). But because their normal box is so covered with iconic branding and weird bullshit to make the "unboxing experience" worth it that they ship their shit in a SECOND EQUALLY DENSE BOX!
It's such wasteful packaging especially compared to the Dell Laptops we also buy that are obviously trying to use the least amount of cardboard possible to ship their machines. The weight difference of the boxes alone is like a pound it's insane!
And on top of all of that, I can re-use the Dell boxes. The Mac boxes have these pull tabs so it doesn't use tape and it preserves the unboxing experience. So when I set up these damn laptops and then I need to ship them out, I have to go get a brand new box from the warehouse because the box it came in is unusable!
Tl:Dr: Apple cares more about "the experience" than sustainability and it makes me laugh at their stupid mother nature commercial
@Nagaram Lenovo is good about this too. I recently needed to ship back a 50lb P620 workstation to my employer, and had saved the shipping box they sent it to me in. The box looks like it was designed to survive about 5 trips through commercial shippers, which is just the right amount of resiliency for the lifetime of the product. Same deal with their laptops.
I've only ever unboxed Lenovo's second hand lol.
The ones a company we acquired used were all E series thinkpads. Which the box was serviceable. They didn't have a hinged "lid" like the Dells do. They were just a box you opened at one end, removed the end cardboard, and pulled out the laptop.
That's a company that honestly puts practicality above everything. And I respect it.