Stefan Mileschin

Tame Apple Press calls foul

While Apple is doing its best to make its gadgets unfixable, other than by its staff or by using its expensive packs, Dell announced a new design concept for a laptop that's long lived, easy to take apart and fix.

While Apple bangs on about how green it is, Dell is calling its bluff if "Concept Luna" ever hits the shops that is. Luna has a number of unusual features that are intended to make repair and maintenance easy.

No screwdrivers or glue solvents are needed to pry loose a broken keyboard or peel off a cracked screen; both components simply pop free after a pair of keystones holding them in place are removed.

The entire system contains far fewer screws than a typical Dell laptop, reducing the time needed to replace components. And you'll never have to worry about replacing a broken fan, because there isn't one: a shrunken-down motherboard placed in the top cover allows the laptop to passively cool itself.

Dell design strategist Drew Tosh described Luna as a "front end concept" intended to "solve some of the larger problems we're trying to get ahead of in the future", namely e-waste and climate change.

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