Apple Forces Competition To Abandon Metal Skin For Ultrabooks

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Posted 10 August 2011 - 01:36 PM

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Posted 10 August 2011 - 02:11 PM

So leave those two companies and go to a different manufacturer. There are more than 2 machine shops in the freakin world. I am sure someone else would like the opportunity.

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Posted 10 August 2011 - 03:21 PM

"Further, IT admins may be hesitant to risk investing in machines made from a nonmetal material that has yet to prove its mettle, as it were."

Since when have our laptops been made of metal?

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Posted 10 August 2011 - 03:44 PM

RobinLim0bf7, on 10 August 2011 - 03:21 PM, said:

"Further, IT admins may be hesitant to risk investing in machines made from a nonmetal material that has yet to prove its mettle, as it were."

Since when have our laptops been made of metal?

As it says in the article, "The CNC lathes in question are a critical component for building the ultrathin unibody-based magnesium-aluminum chassis spelled out in Intel's design guidelines."

It's not saying that nonmetals haven't been used to make laptops before, but that to achieve the ultrabook form factor without a metal chassis is not possible with nonmetal bodies currently being used for larger laptops. Hence fibreglass, which is not yet widely tested.

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Posted 17 August 2011 - 10:43 AM

I just can't leave this alone -- this article and its premise is absurd on its face. First of all, what you're talking about are CNC _mills_, not lathes. Second of all, and most important, there are thousands and thousands of these machines all over the planet -- it is not possible for Apple or any other company to corner the market on access to something that's everywhere. I was recently in a machine shop in rural China where they had one of these extremely expensive and precise machines sitting on a dirt floor, held up by 2x4s and bricks.

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Posted 21 August 2011 - 07:06 AM

RogerSinsheimerpqi8, on 17 August 2011 - 10:43 AM, said:

Thank you. I was getting really annoyed at the misuse of the word lathe and the misrepresentation of the milling process.

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Posted 06 September 2011 - 10:48 PM

[quote name='RobinLim0bf7' timestamp='1313018474' post='517952']
"Further, IT admins may be hesitant to risk investing in machines made from a nonmetal material that has yet to prove its mettle, as it were."

Prove its mettle? They've been building high performance automobile bodies out of it for more than fifty years!

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Posted 06 September 2011 - 11:26 PM

tsumner02, on 06 September 2011 - 10:48 PM, said:

RobinLim0bf7, on 10 August 2011 - 03:21 PM, said:

"Further, IT admins may be hesitant to risk investing in machines made from a nonmetal material that has yet to prove its mettle, as it were."

Prove its mettle? They've been building high performance automobile bodies out of it for more than fifty years!

Ever see one after the slightest accident?

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