It's anodized aluminum. Nothing like normal aluminum.
It will RUIN your laptop.
Are you sure? Because as long as it's aluminum, it should polish. There may be some sort of coating on it but if you sand this off with some fine-grit sandpaper, say 320 grit or 400 grit, then polish it with progressively finer polishes, it should work.
Like I said, it would be a tremendous amount of work which would probably require dis-assembly, but I'm fairly sure it could be done...
Hey everyone. I was curious as to if you could polish the aluminum macbook. Growing up i spent lots of time polishing aluminum, and after plenty of thinking i decided to go ahead and try it. i started on the inside of the battery cover to make sure it would be feasible. My method worked. Sooo here is my partly finished underside, and my finished top side of my computer. I am very pleased how it turned out.
NOTE: This was a very lengthy process, and a very tedious one at that.
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Let me know what you guys think.
That looks damn good! But before you know it...
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So although it looks sexy as hell, I wouldn't really wanna try it![]()
same thing has happened to my iPod xD... even i cannot baby my laptop that much.
What was your technique for polishing your macbook aluminum? I just recently finished mine and it isn't quite as nice as yours. Granted it does look nice but I want the finish to be smoother.
Here you go!
Oh God. Goljan. I can't get away.
The laptop looks good though.
Erm, No, look in the last picture under the CD/DVD drive there is a huge crack there.
This aside it looks cool but without finish aluminium will oxidate fast and you get black hands by even touching it for a short time.
Here you go!
I would love to be able to change the backlight color to Blue though? how did you get Pink?