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"I know a guy whose sister said she heard a couple of people taking about and engineer they know who used to work with an Apple engineer who definitely says carbon fiber is coming to Apple products!!!
 
Cue the iPhone 5C rumors, "C" for Carbon :rolleyes: The lightest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone.
 
Source told the number of parts is too large to be called "sample".

ALFRED: We order the main part
of this cowl from Singapore.
BRUCE: Via a dummy corporation.
A: Indeed. And then, quite separately... we place an order
to a Chinese company for these.
B: Put it together ourselves.
A: Precisely. They'll have to be large orders,
to avoid suspicion.
B: How large?
A: Say 10,000.
B: Well, at least we'll have spares.


New rumor: Tim Cook is Batman.
 
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i like rumors!
 
I wonder if we'll see a carbon fiber product before a liquid metal product..

Besides, if anything, these materials would be used sparingly in devices (components, certain parts, etc..). A whole Macbook shell made out of Carbon Fiber would be pretty expensive..
 
This means that they could potentially use the body itself as a printed circuit board, and remove yet another layer. Less weight, thinner product.
 
While I love the look of carbon fiber, doesn't it cause a significant degradation in wireless signals?

Not as bad as aluminum but close, it would have the same sorts of challenges for antenna placement and would probably need the same kind of holes in it (apple logo and strip along the top) as the current covers. It would be extremity light for the same rigidity though.
 
I had a carbon fiber case for my iPhone 4 and the material was durable. Would love a carbon fiber iPhone...
 
I have the iCarbons Carbon Fiber wrap on my macbook pro... I think it looks great.. get compliments all the time on it.. I also did my wireless mouse and ipod shuffle..
 
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