Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Aug 2006 17:45 UTC, submitted by teigetje
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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I wonder WHICH idiot created RoHS directive. As usual stupid ecologists which care only about money, and they are the easiest way to e.g. block building of windmills which generate power because of birds when paid well. There was a discussion about RoHS at Polish board about electronics (http://www.elektroda.pl), and they said that Pb-less soldering quality degrades at the temperatures ~5C or so. I wonder why they said that military and medical equipment should be soldered with Pb.