Apple Investigating Thinner Notebook Enclosures

[jonutarr]

Apple describes two conflicting design goals for producing thinner and lighter laptops: "the desirability of making the enclosure lighter and thinner, and the desirability of making the enclosure stronger and more rigid."

Was it a design goal to have them sound like an aircraft carrier?

 

[Swarmlord]

I'd rather see them stay the same and have longer battery charge time.

 

[scrambledwonder]

I'm thinking about a logic board that's kinda one piece with the case. No screws, no distance between them all, no wiggleing. How cool would it be to have the electronics and all the ports incorporated into the case of a macbook. Change logic board? Just change the bottom case. You could make everything way thinner by doing that.

Laptops are all about not being user upgradable. Why not have 1 piece of all in one hardware, plus RAM, plus HDD? You could even have the whole mainboard/case have little pipes going through the whole thing for liquid cooling, just like on a combustion engine. That saves the heat pipes and fans. The heat could be dissipated over the full surface on the screen lid.

Laptops are still parts thrown together and thrown into a case. Apple already does better than other companies at putting it all together in a nice, clean looking box. But there needs to be more effort in putting things together.

The ultimate laptop is an impossibly thin screen that's highly durable and has everthing in it. Screens are getting thinner with LED backlighting and OLED (or similar) technology. Hard Drives can be substituted with flash memory if size matters etc...


some liquid

I love that idea. . . Integrate the circuit boards into the case COMPLETELY. Case and board from one material, just basically imprinting the circuits directly onto the structural bits. Talk about better heat dissipation. Talk about flexible design. Engineers no loner hampered by designing around a motherboard. Laptops could be made in ANY shape. . . Fascinating.

But let's take it a step further. Vat grown computers, micro-assembled by nano machines.

 

[GodBless]

Download a straight PDF at http://www.pat2pdf.org I'd link to the file, but then you wouldn't see the ads that support the site.

Just type 20070109737 in the box.

B

Thanks for the link.

 

[Loungepop]

This certainly goes hand in hand with the LED backlights, in my opinion. LED's result in thinner display enclosures. I'm almost sure Apple would have to redesign the case of the MBP in order to release an LED model.