The new EU legislation that forces manufacturers to reduce the amount of harmful chemicals and materials in their products will affect the Iyonix. The computer's motherboard will require a costly resdesign in order to meet the requirements of the new RoHS rules, especially to meet the low-lead levels in the PCB solder, say contacts close to Castle. Well placed sources say that items manufactured before the July 1 deadline can still be shipped and sold. It is understood that the AdvantageSix A9 range is RoHS compliant. Castle have declined to comment. My take: It's a bird, it's a plane... No, it's the RoHS which Castle could've seen coming since 2003.
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Kinda ironical: I consider(ed) using a Lyonix or some sorts purely for the lower power usage for running 24/7, then it turns out they don't comply to environmental directives.
Some of the comments on Drobe are interesting as well; this could mean serious trouble for Castle if some of the parts they use aren't supplied any more.
edit: bottom comment from Castle allays these fears. They've got plenty of stock they're allowed to sell still.
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in the electronics business was aware of RoHS for years! 
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Look, this may not be nice for Iyonix, but who wants a load of lead and toxic chemicals in their workplace or landfills? All this talk of lobbyists is overblown: the EU put the good of its citizens over the good of a few companies, and that - frankly - is how it's meant to be.
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"Further Iyonix motherboard builds will require a PCB redesign as there is one component used on the PCB that is not available lead-free in its package. There are, however, larger pinout versions of that device that are lead-free."
This is a very common problem in electronics.
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Lead is about 1/3rd of the tin/lead eutectic alloy. This alloy is almost ideal in it's washing and melting performance, but even more importantly, it doesn't create those nasty tiny needle-like chrystals that pure tin does.
Those christalizations will be the cause of many premature havaries of RoHS components, and will cause a larger number of computer spareparts to be dumped in the environment, eliminating or even worsening any possible improvement by not using lead.
These chrystals grow by themselves during the years, and eventually cause short circuits in the motherboard.
So, there's your RoHS. Brilliant shoot-yourself-in-the-foot environment project.