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TCO Certified Notebooks 4.0 5 March 2012 2012-03-05- TCO Certified Notebooks 4.0 2012 Copyright TCO Development AB. All rights reserved. 1 (118) Contents - TCO Certified Notebooks SUPPORT (ON THIS DOCUMENT AND TCO CERTIFICATION) ................................................................... 5 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................................... 6 A CRITERIA ......................................................................................................................................................... 7 A.1 GENERAL INFORMATION ...................................................................................................................... 7 A.1.1 TCO CERTIFIED DOCUMENT....................................................................................................................... 8 A.2 VISUAL ERGONOMICS ............................................................................................................................ 9 A.2.1 IMAGE DETAIL CHARACTERISTICS ............................................................................................................. 10 A.2.1.1 Native display resolution requirement............................................................................................ 10 A.2.2 LUMINANCE CHARACTERISTICS ................................................................................................................ 11 A.2.2.1 Luminance level .............................................................................................................................. 11 A.2.2.2 Luminance uniformity ..................................................................................................................... 12 A.2.2.3 Luminance uniformity - angular-dependence ................................................................................. 13 A.2.3 LUMINANCE CONTRAST CHARACTERISTICS ............................................................................................... 14 A.2.3.1 Luminance contrast – characters ................................................................................................... 14 A.2.3.2 Luminance contrast – angular dependence .................................................................................... 15 A.2.4 REFLECTION CHARACTERISTICS ................................................................................................................ 16 A.2.4.1 Key cap marking contrast ............................................................................................................... 16 A.2.4.2 Front frame and keyboard gloss ..................................................................................................... 17 A.2.5 SCREEN COLOUR CHARACTERISTICS ......................................................................................................... 19 A.2.5.1 Correlated colour temperature, CCT variation .............................................................................. 19 A.2.5.2 Colour uniformity ........................................................................................................................... 20 A.2.5.3 RGB settings ................................................................................................................................... 21 A.2.5.4 Colour uniformity – angular dependence ....................................................................................... 22 A.2.5.5 Colour greyscale linearity .............................................................................................................. 23 A.3 WORK LOAD ERGONOMICS ................................................................................................................ 24 A.3.1 SEPARATE DISPLAY, KEYBOARD AND INPUT DEVICE ................................................................................. 25 A.3.2 KEYBOARD ............................................................................................................................................... 26 A.4 EMISSIONS ................................................................................................................................................ 27 A.4.1 ALTERNATING ELECTRICAL FIELDS ........................................................................................................... 28 A.4.2 ALTERNATING MAGNETIC FIELDS ............................................................................................................. 29 A.4.3 ACOUSTIC NOISE ....................................................................................................................................... 30 A.5 ELECTRICAL SAFETY ........................................................................................................................... 32 A.5.1 ELECTRICAL SAFETY ................................................................................................................................. 32 A.6 ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................................ 33 A.6.1 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION ............................................................................................................................. 34 A.6.2 ORGANISATION ......................................................................................................................................... 36 A.6.2.1 Environmental management system certification ........................................................................... 36 A.6.3 CLIMATE ................................................................................................................................................... 38 A.6.3.1 Energy consumption ....................................................................................................................... 38 A.6.3.2 Energy consumption – external power supply ................................................................................ 39 A.6.4 ENVIRONMENTALLY HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES ........................................................................................ 40 A.6.4.1 Mercury (Hg) free product ............................................................................................................. 40 A.6.4.2 Cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb) and hexavalent chromium (CrVI).......................................................... 41 A.6.4.3 Halogenated substances ................................................................................................................. 42 A.6.4.4 Non-halogenated substances .......................................................................................................... 44 A.6.4.5 Plastics with chlorine and bromine as part of the polymer ............................................................ 46 A.6.4.6 Information regarding plastics, flame retarding agents and plasticizers ....................................... 48 A.6.5 PRODUCT LIFETIME ................................................................................................................................... 50 A.6.5.1 Warranty and spare parts ............................................................................................................... 50 A.6.6 PREPARATION FOR RECYCLING ................................................................................................................. 51 2012-03-05- TCO Certified Notebooks 4.0 2012 Copyright TCO Development AB. All rights reserved. 2 (118) A.6.6.1 Material coding of plastics ............................................................................................................. 51 A 6.6.2 Variety of plastics ........................................................................................................................... 53 A.6.6.3 Take back system ............................................................................................................................ 55 A.6.7 PRODUCT PACKAGING ............................................................................................................................... 57 A.6.7.1 Hazardous substances in product packaging ................................................................................. 57 A.6.7.2 Preparation for recycling of product packaging material .............................................................. 58 A.7 CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY .......................................................................................... 59 A.7.1 CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ....................................................................................................... 59 A.7.2 SENIOR MANAGEMENT REPRESENTATIVE ................................................................................................ 61 R REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................................ 62 B TEST METHODS AND CLARIFICATIONS .............................................................................................. 66 B.0 GENERAL TEST CONDITIONS ............................................................................................................. 66 B.0.1 DEFINITION OF A TEST OBJECT .................................................................................................................. 66 B.0.2 REQUIRED TEST OBJECT INFORMATION ....................................................................................................