Apple Exploring Carbon-Fiber Enclosures for Future Devices

[TheUndertow]

What about:
MacBooks made of carbon fiber (replacing white plastic).
MacBook Pros made of Liquidmetal.

IMO it would be the other way around...Carbon Fiber is a "Pro" a material as you get.

 

[D-Dave]

From my experience with CF it is a very strong and light-weight material but I doubt it would be a good idea to replace something like the glass backside of the iphone with carbon fiber as it is prone to damage when pressure is applied to a very limited area (think of iphone + keys in your pocket)

For example cf-bikes are great until you have anything but a minor crash...the even the smallest crack can be devestating to the structural integrity...

 

[saltyzoo]

From my experience with CF it is a very strong and light-weight material but I doubt it would be a good idea to replace something like the glass backside of the iphone with carbon fiber as it is prone to damage when pressure is applied to a very limited area (think of iphone + keys in your pocket)

For example cf-bikes are great until you have anything but a minor crash...the even the smallest crack can be devestating to the structural integrity...

You're comparing a bike hitting a rock at 25 mph while carrying a 200 lb man with a cell phone in your pocket?

Whatever you are doing that would damage CF in your pocket with keys is going to rip the flesh off your leg.

 

[hodaka]

Hmmm

Anybody else here old enough to remember the Titanium PowerBook? Maybe you recall that the shell was made from titanium and carbon fibre - painted carbon fibre? No new news here.

 

[MikeELL]

Hmmm

Anybody else here old enough to remember the Titanium PowerBook? Maybe you recall that the shell was made from titanium and carbon fibre - painted carbon fibre? No new news here.

Well I'll be. I never realised there was carbon fibre in the the Tibook. The reason they were disbanded was that the Titanium shell was pretty opaque to radio signals. A liquid metal-carbon fibre enclosure would be much better as far as that goes.