NOW, LAPTOPS MADE OF BAMBOO

Bamboo series
Okay. We'll confess. With this notebook, ASUS makes a complete paradoxical statement. ASUS cuts millions of bamboo trees to make the panels of their new Bamboo series notebooks, but the company says it saves about 36 million trees annually. How?

While most eco-conscious gadget makers have chosen to work around power saving models, for its latest laptop ASUS has chosen bamboo - the world's fastest growing woody plant. The new Bamboo Series notebooks feature the bamboo wood panels. So, how does that help and why was bamboo chosen over other wood types?

Deforestation?
Bamboo has a renewal rate that no other plant can match. Some bamboo species can grow at the speed of 4 feet per day. In fact, it has been measured surging skyward as fast as 121 cm (47.6 inches) in a 24-hour period. And the best part, bamboo can totally recover after harvest and there's absolutely no need to re-plant again.

So why bother about the deforestation part, especially when we know that bamboo helps reduce CO2 emissions in the environment? ASUS says some species of bamboo can even dissolve up to 12 tonnes of CO2 emissions to effectively make the air fresher. And, let us remember that this saves the planet from the effect of the entire noxious cycle of manufacturing and machining metal panels.

Really tough
Now, this definitely makes the decision to embrace bamboo nothing short of ingenious. The organic tactility, refreshing scent and minimalist aesthetics of bamboo lends the notebook an aura of warmth and old world charm that synthetic material and metals will struggle to imitate.

The ASUS Bamboo series notebook is a tough one too. Really tough we mean - it is the first notebook to have survived the intolerant conditions of the snow-capped Qomolangma peak.

Extended battery life
In phasing out hazardous or potentially hazardous substances, ASUS has restricted the use of 37 such substances as opposed to the 6 stipulated by the RoHS directive.

Further the notebook uses a Super Hybrid Engine that can extend battery life between 35 and 70 per cent as compared to notebooks with the same specifications, but without the technology.

Reducing CO2 emissions
ASUS says it achieves this by intelligently monitoring the power requirements of the notebook's components and automatically adjusting the power levels in real-time to match the current consumption needs.

The Hybrid Engine further reduces the yearly CO2 emission by 12.3 kg per notebook. Given that ASUS ships approximately 6 million notebooks per year, this works out to a massive 73.8 million kilograms of CO2 emission reduced per year, which equates to saving 36 million trees annually.

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