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Apple Sourcing Carbon Fiber Components for Upcoming Product?

DennisD7 said:
Aren't most PCBs made out of fibre glass material? Do you think it would be possible to use a carbon fiber board for surface mounted components?

If so, they might be planning to put their components right onto the outer shell itself (on the inside of it thought :) ) That would make for some seriously thin products, especially for the iPads and their smaller gadgets.
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Carbon fibre is conductive as far as I know, so it's not a good surface for mounting components.
 
Thank god. I can't wait for the carbon fiber liquid metal Apple television set (it's coming out next week, haven't you heard?)

Also, I really need a lighter iPhone. I'm scheduled for physical therapy next week (I may miss the keynote about the new TV) because I've been carrying around a heavy iPhone 4 for two years. :rolleyes:
 
See what a MacBook Air "CF" will look like

Gigabyte has copied the MacBook Air...but in a carbon fiber shell. Who will sue who when the MacBooks arrive in carbon fiber?

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/gigabyte-x11-carbon-fiber-laptop-is-worlds-lightest-20120531/

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PS: Dear Tim Cook, you might want to triple or quadruple down on security because doubling down isn't working.
 
Nice!

First time I heard of carbon fibre was from my luthier, when he brought home a carbon fibre violin bow.

I hope it is for the 7" eyefad; the 13"macbook pro retina or a........


17" macbook pro retina


Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!
 
Yvan256 said:
It's also aluminium in Canada and I think most countries on this planet. Only in the USA do we hear things like "aluminum" and "nucular". ;)

And if Apple uses a material, you better hope it can be recycled. I don't think carbon fiber is recyclable.
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Aluminum is a proper spelling in the American vernacular of the English language.

"Nucular" is not. It's still Nuclear as it should be. Just because a certain former president and some select bubba types can't pronounce it correctly this doesn't mean that's how we spell it.

I will still never understand the British propensity to spell all words that have "or" sounds at the end with "our". I.e. colour, etc. It's color dammit!! :D
 
powers74 said:
Carbon Fiber would make sense for a TV...
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No it wouldn't. All modern displays are light enough now that they don't need expensive materials. Even wall-mounted a large screen display is easily handled by conventional mounts because they are all so thin now. A 55-inch LED screen comes in at about 60 lbs now.

Carbon fiber is completely wasted in any product that doesn't require portability and that includes all desktop Macs and displays. Weight is of no concern to desktops since once they are in position, they are rarely moved. And again they weigh nothing. A single person can easily move every Apple product when needed.
 
Is this real? A non-iPhone news?? Finally! Now let's hear some more iMac and 13 in rMBP news that should be out soon (I hope!)
 
johncarync said:
Gigabyte has copied the MacBook Air...but in a carbon fiber shell. Who will sue who when the MacBooks arrive in carbon fiber?

PS: Dear Tim Cook, you might want to triple or quadruple down on security because doubling down isn't working.
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Yes, because security is what is keeping vendors from copying existing products :confused:
 
While I can see the value (weight, reception, etc), I really really prefer the aluminum. I'm afraid a CF case will feel like...well...like a cheap, plastic Android phone/PC/whatever.

That's just MY opinion and preference.
 
BigZ243 said:
Not if it has a hard coating over it like cars that use it.
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I don't think it'll need it. If it's for mobile devices, CF won't scratch in an empty pocket, and I don't think Apple has any obligation to make devices scratch resistant against keys and other hard objects.
 
What happened to the Liquidmetal tech they bought?

I could see CF being used, but it is going to feel like plastic since that is what it is. Hell, if they are going to do that, they might as well use Boron fibers as well to get max strength.
 
IMO Carbon Fiber has to be the next redesign for Apple, and by redesign I mean product-wide change.

Think about how it's worked for Apple. If we go back a few years you can see a pattern:

- White with thick perspex plastic over the top of the white (used on the White MacBook, the iMac line, etc

Then we had a grey area - the Aluminum and White Mac Mini, which seemed to be a bit...odd when compared to the rest of the white lineup.

- Then we get the aluminium range in 2008, and we're still on that today. It's time for the next design.

Carbon fiber Mac's would be great. It'd work VERY well for the Macbook Air as it's able to dissipitate 2x the amount of heat that aluminium can! (source).

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akatsuki said:
What happened to the Liquidmetal tech they bought?
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So far it's only really been put to use on the sim card ejector for the iPhone. Mind you, for all we know, its being used for either an upcoming product, a failed/abandoned product or was bought specifically to get the skilled staff into Apple.
 
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