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Apple Acquires Rights to Liquidmetal Technologies' Advanced Metal Alloys

Maybe Apple should make an iKnife with this technology. Any thinner and that's what their product will be like. Definitely with the Macbook Air. :D
 
CalCanuck said:
Tune into the new season of 'Chuck' -- she's playing his mom.
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Was Chuck ever any good though? I dislike when the writers make their protagonist clueless, awkward and rather doltish, and yet in the end, they always succeed against impossible odds. But perhaps the show has improved.
 
Salacion said:
So Aluminum is a metal alloy, meaning Apple can stick with their Aluminum unibodies with enhancements from Liquidmetal Technologies. Am I wrong?
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Yes. You are wrong. An alloy is made of several metallic and sometimes some non-metallic elements. Aluminum is an element. It's just a metal.
 
lilo777 said:
You look at the wrong places. Look at Sony Vaio Z (carbon fiber), HP EliteBook or Envy (precision-etched metal alloy case), Dell Studio XPS (magnesium alloy).
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The "aluminum" in MBP is likely to actually be an aluminum alloy. Just pointing it out because you seem focused on that word. But "alloys" don't make good casings. Various alloys are better or worse in various ways.
 
lilo777 said:
So, Apple finally admits that using aluminum was a stupid idea. Other companies were using alloys for laptop cases for decades, now Apple decided to join them. Better late than never, I guess.
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Considering the first "laptop" computer was introduced in 1991, I find that difficult to believe. What a moronic troll.
 
Piggie said:
An interesting concept when you think about it:

"Looks Cheap"

Because you associate plastic as a low cost substance, if it looks like it's plastic it must be inferior?

Irrespective of any technical issues?
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You know, after having a plastic macbook whose casing cracked (and everyone else I know with one of the white ones having cracked casings) because, well, it cracked. It wasn't dropped, it just didn't take everyday stresses well and cracked (always at the edge where the hands rested and every single person I know with a macbook had the same thing. One perosn had his keyboard replaced cause something happened and they new top case cracked as well! I hear they haven't really fixed hte issue in the new macbooks).

Sure, the metal one might dent easier if I drop it. I'll take the one that won't break if I take care of it and try not to do abusive things to it over the one that will crack no matter how well I take care of it even if it takes a drop a little better (and honestly, plastic is more likely to crack/break if you drop it vs. denting like the metal one. Though that is more subjective which you prefer).

So, yeah, I prefer the aluminum over the plastic and I will easily say I think the aluminum casing is superior to plastic.
 
nelmat said:
I think you'll find there isn't a single antennae in existence that doesn't attenuate when touched by a conductive surface.
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Depends on the conductive surface. It could help rather than hinder. In fact, the same conductive surface could do either, depending on other factors.
 
Salacion said:
Was Chuck ever any good though? I dislike when the writers make their protagonist clueless, awkward and rather doltish, and yet in the end, they always succeed against impossible odds. But perhaps the show has improved.
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Oh, they took that part away. Closer to T1000, now.
 
0092762 said:
In 10 years, we'll all just buy a single Apple product, the "i" that will be a liquid metal blob. It'll take the shape of an macbook pro, iphone, or ipad, depending on which one you need at the time.
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That would be awesome, Apple or not.
 
tigress666 said:
You know, after having a plastic macbook whose casing cracked (and everyone else I know with one of the white ones having cracked casings) because, well, it cracked. It wasn't dropped, it just didn't take everyday stresses well and cracked (always at the edge where the hands rested and every single person I know with a macbook had the same thing. One perosn had his keyboard replaced cause something happened and they new top case cracked as well! I hear they haven't really fixed hte issue in the new macbooks).

Sure, the metal one might dent easier if I drop it. I'll take the one that won't break if I take care of it and try not to do abusive things to it over the one that will crack no matter how well I take care of it even if it takes a drop a little better (and honestly, plastic is more likely to crack/break if you drop it vs. denting like the metal one. Though that is more subjective which you prefer).

So, yeah, I prefer the aluminum over the plastic and I will easily say I think the aluminum casing is superior to plastic.
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My black Macbook cracked. The problem so common with the White Macbooks (plastic cracking and falling of on the front) happened to me. The right side of my Macbook acted as a trackpad, where whenever I set my hand on it, the cursor selected whatever there was to select. Everytime I picked it up or moved it, it creaked like that door slowly opening in a horror film. It scratched like a mofo. And, the plastic battery emerged from its slot, thanks to the plastic. So yes, plastic is cheap.

Over time, plastic ages and weakens. Not so much aluminum.
 
iPhone 5: The first phone that melts in your hand!

or:

iPhone 5: The first phone you can drink.
 
Another missed stock opportunity

Liquidmetal Tech stock (LQMT) was up 79% today!!!!

I wish I'd had some insider info on that one.
 
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