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Aluminum MacBook and MacBook Pros Spotted?
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I personally like the plastic enclosure of my macbook. I've already dropped it numerous times and have gotten no dings/dents. If it had an aluminum enclosure, it would be a totally different story.
Next to nothing. Worrying about the aluminum in your laptop would be like not using non-stick cookwear because of the Teflon.So, what are the chances of a person getting sick/health problems from Aluminium?
Thanks to this thread, I am starting to second guess the choice of Aluminium that Apple is using.
If you use to properly, it won't harm you. (Laptops= don't file the casing and lick it up. Cookware= don't heat it empty/scratch it up and use it) Its just common sense.
From here (Denmark) I get that too on the australien store. However, if I go through the store, I can click on it from there.
So, what are the chances of a person getting sick/health problems from Aluminium?
Thanks to this thread, I am starting to second guess the choice of Aluminium that Apple is using.
Don't. Aluminum is a great material if used properly. If only apple's anodising was better, though.
Of course, it's not a health problem. Not even close to being one. Hell, people sail around in un-anodised (except for the natural anodising) boats as live-aboards. It's nothing to worry about.
I think it's basically nothing. You can still order it with 24 hours shipping, if going through the store.
well it doesnt work for me neither (canada)
matbe its tuesday
bah im getting excited for no good reason like i alwauys do
MacBook = September 30thwell it doesnt work for me neither (canada)
matbe its tuesday
MacBook Pro = October 14th
or vice versa
I wish.
oh never mind
it works fine now
I'm pretty sure theyre getting updated the same day either the 30th or the 14th
i hope
it works fine now
MacBook = September 30th
MacBook Pro = October 14th
or vice versa
I wish.
I'm pretty sure theyre getting updated the same day either the 30th or the 14th
i hope
Thanks.
Needed a couple people to convince me that aluminium is not bad now.
If your pregnant you shouldn't use non-stick cookware.If you've got bad kidneys,including from alcohol you should limit your contact to aluminium as much as possible.So many people with Alzheimers,no explanation as to why except toxins!!!Alcoa has plenty of money to buy scientists through funding etc.
Titanium,glass and rubber would be by far the safest laptops.
MacBook = September 30th
MacBook Pro = October 14th
or vice versa
I wish.
Me too.
Agreed, even though Aluminium is still considered safe if used properly, I would rather still have an Titanium laptop.
I have nothing against Aluminium. I would still buy an Aluminium computer but would prefer an Titanium one.
We aren't talking teflon (Dupont trademark) or equivalents.
Well, aluminum is strictly speaking not a toxin. Besides, claiming that alu is to be blame is quite the stretch. Especially considering that aluminum is found naturally. In fact is our most abundant metal on the face of the earth.
Sure, let's use some conspiracy theories, and please don't let facts get in your way:
1) Alcoa is merely the third largest producer of aluminium in the world. Number three.
2) There are scientists in other countires than the US of A.
3) not all scientists rely on funding from a huge company which happen to be producing the product the scientists are testing.
4) there is such things as "peer reviews", which happens to be globalised.
You cannot seriously suggest Alcoa is buying off the world's scientists.
Except, that too depends on how and what the glass and rubber was made from, and what the titanium was alloyed with. If it is pure titanium (and unpainted, that is) I'll give you one for the Ti.
The rubber in particular can be some very nasty stuff with phthalate (esters), which is a substance used to soften (or "rubberise", if you will) hard plastics (i.e. make them into rubber).
Just for fun, is it possible replace the current MacBook's/MacBook Pro's case with an Titanium case?
Just for fun question.
Taken just for fun
No, it wouldn't. Well, not unless you manufactured it yourself. The Tibook was slightly different in every way. The screen had different dimensions, there weren't the "forehead" on top of the screen to accomodate the isight and so on. The hinge and even where the innards are placed (including battery et al) are very, very different.
How about putting the MacBook Pros "heart and meat" (logic board and the rest of the innards) inside the Ti PowerBook G4's case (without iSight, I do not care about iSight)?
It's funny that MacRumors would miss the i in aluminium!
I wonder if they considered swapping the n for a d and adding a b on to the end. That's what how the stuff actually makes you eventually.
*It's not typical for the US spelling though.I currently live in the US-response to iEdd*
I wonder if they considered swapping the n for a d and adding a b on to the end. That's what how the stuff actually makes you eventually.
*It's not typical for the US spelling though.I currently live in the US-response to iEdd*
Or the 'u' in 'rumours'
(Hint: It's USA based, hence US English)
Are the Panasonic toughbooks aluminium/magnesium alloy? There may be Mg in the MacBook Pros already - who knows what the exact alloy is.
Nope. The MBP is bigger in every way possible. The screen is larger (I believe the screen on the tibook was 15.2 or something, the MBP 15.4), the MBP is thicker, the "flap" holding the screen is bigger, it has a different clasp (I seem to remember the ti having a single one, the mbp has two clasps), the ports on the tibook were placed in the back behind a hinge (not on the side as on the MBP) and so on. It wouldn't be possible to fit the motherboard of the MBP into the tibook, as you would have to redesign it to fit (for one, all the ports would have to go on the back, and afaik, the tibook only had two speakers, not three as on the MBP, which would mean, you would have to redesign everything, including the airflow through it in order to make it fit. This includes the keyboard and so on.
However, look on the bright sides: The Tibook sucked huge arse. I loved it, but quality wise it sucked. It was very, very flexible, and with the two minute hinges in the back, it didn't take much to wreck them. People (me included) had problems with both pitting and flaking caused by the poor paint job. The white rim flaked on mine (it was carbon fiber, but still flexed, causing the top layer to flake) to reveal the abysmal grey primer underneath. The palm rests (as on my MBP) pitted to reveal another shade of primer underneath that. It truly sucked, and the Tibook in appearance wasn't all that "Ti" as the whole thing was painted in "titanium color", instead of letting the real ti shine. I still wonder what on earth was in that paint.
To this date, I think of the TiBook as the turning point of apple: The day the tibook went public, was the day the Apple began it's spiral with dwindling quality.
Sorry, that was way more than you asked for.
The Tibook (at least, propably also the MBP?) used magnesium as the support stringers for the screen.
That is because MacRumours is American-centric/American site.
Sorry, that was way more than you asked for.
Sorry but I cannot resist asking this: Does the MacBook innards have a better chance of working inside a Ti PowerBook G4 case?
I wouldn't think so. That thing is humongously thick in comparison, and that too has the ports on the side. Even the optical drive is on the side, but not only that, it's at the back on the side.
Even if you were a wizard with a soldering iron, I don't think it would be close to feasible.