Apple Sourcing Carbon Fiber Components for Upcoming Product?

[chrisbru]

I'm English, as is the name of our (mostly) shared language.

The bloody Yanks bastardised it. We're just protecting the correct way of doing things. Things carry on like this and the colonies will end up conversing in txtspk. lol.

I heard from a professor once that American English was actually how people spoke before the US was colonized, and that the British "developed" the current "accent" in order to differentiate themselves from the colonists.

I have no sources for this and do not vouch for its validity

 

[AustinIllini]

Is it 'normal' for carbon fiber to scratch?

I think carbon fiber is meant to break upon impact. Would suck if you broke your macbook in half.

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I'm English, as is the name of our (mostly) shared language.

The bloody Yanks bastardised it. We're just protecting the correct way of doing things. Things carry on like this and the colonies will end up conversing in txtspk. lol.

Your welcome for that whole "Save your rear end in World War II thing"

 

[ChrisA]

While I love the look of carbon fiber, doesn't it cause a significant degradation in wireless signals?

If does not "look" like anything. The "checkerboard" look is just one kind o cloth they can weave from the fiber and I really doubt they would use that kind of cloth.

Almost certainly it would have the "look" of a carbon fiber bicycle frame. It other words you would not know it is was fiber by looking. All you see is the paint.

Here is a photo of the kind of bike the guy now working at used to make
http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/kestrel/images/rt8_2100.jpg
The entire bike is carbon and sells for about the price of a MacBook Retina. As you see, if done "right" you don't see the fiber

 

[ikramerica]

I'm English, as is the name of our (mostly) shared language.

The bloody Yanks bastardised it. We're just protecting the correct way of doing things. Things carry on like this and the colonies will end up conversing in txtspk. lol.

All I know is that when British rock stars sing, they sound like Yanks from Ohio. My thought on this is that Ohio non-accented American English is the "stripped down" basis of English, and all other accents consist of affectations, including Educated London English.

After all, it's hard to argue that the British pronounce things the "right way" considering there are many accents in the UK depending on the region and class that sound wildly different, all of them have roots 100's of years old, but NONE of them are the same accent or dialect used 300, 500 or 700 years back anyway. Your language has changed a great deal from 1776, for example, just as the American version has changed.

 

[drlunanerd]

Apple has already used carbon fibre in the past: the Titanium Powerbook G4 had a carbon fibre frame.

 

[nick_elt]

I heard from a professor once that American English was actually how people spoke before the US was colonized, and that the British "developed" the current "accent" in order to differentiate themselves from the colonists.

I have no sources for this and do not vouch for its validity

Ha, yeh right!

 

[Keniutek]

They're sourcing many things (liquid metal for example) but nothing happens. Even if they use wood or paper people will buy their stuff. Sad but true

 

[D-a-a-n]

But will it dent?

But will it blend?

 

[rjbruce]

Ugh...it's 1998 all over again...Thought we were so beyond that ugly carbon fiber phase. This does NOT make me want.

 

[Allenbf]

I'm English, as is the name of our (mostly) shared language.

The bloody Yanks bastardised it. We're just protecting the correct way of doing things. Things carry on like this and the colonies will end up conversing in txtspk. lol.

Madchester! (Sorry, big Oasis fan)

I'm American, half the time I spell "Grey" and "Colour." But that's just me.

 

[franswa za]

Uh boy. Here we go again.

and add the "liquid metal" c*appy rumours too

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I heard from a professor once that American English was actually how people spoke before the US was colonized, and that the British "developed" the current "accent" in order to differentiate themselves from the colonists.

I have no sources for this and do not vouch for its validity

i call for a tea party

 

[DrumApple]

Looks like someone got a little jel of the Thinkpad X1 Carbon

 

[Allenbf]

All I know is that when British rock stars sing, they sound like Yanks from Ohio. My thought on this is that Ohio non-accented American English is the "stripped down" basis of English, and all other accents consist of affectations, including Educated London English.

After all, it's hard to argue that the British pronounce things the "right way" considering there are many accents in the UK depending on the region and class that sound wildly different, all of them have roots 100's of years old, but NONE of them are the same accent or dialect used 300, 500 or 700 years back anyway. Your language has changed a great deal from 1776, for example, just as the American version has changed.

Good point. My English professor (years ago) pointed out to us that the southern US dialect is closer to the English dialect(s) than northern. I have no idea if this is right, but it was interesting fodder.

 

[Nunyabinez]

I'm English, as is the name of our (mostly) shared language.

The bloody Yanks bastardised it. We're just protecting the correct way of doing things. Things carry on like this and the colonies will end up conversing in txtspk. lol.

I always love hearing people from the empire call us the colonies, I don't know why but I just do.

 

[chr1s60]

Introducing the MacBook Carbon.

 

[The Economist]

Does this mean we no longer get hear Johnny Ive say, "AL-YEW-MIN-EE-YUM" in the promo videos?

It's not Johnny's fault that Americans mispronounce aluminium.

 

[MIKEJONES666]

smh

 

[Sweetfeld28]

I wonder if it could just be a case, for the iPhone 5? I mean they have no cases, or anything for that matter on the Apple Store site for the iPhone 5.

 

[dukebound85]

Carbon fiber is really a miracle metal. I absolutely love carbon fiber tripods for my photography and my mountain bike. So strong and so light - can't beat it.

it's not a metal...

it is a composite

 

[somethingelsefl]

You do know that's how people in the UK (I'm not sure of other parts of Europe) pronounce Aluminium, don't you?

Simply put...resisting the urge to say something rude at you...yes, yes I do.

 

[ChrisA]

Ugh...it's 1998 all over again...Thought we were so beyond that ugly carbon fiber phase. This does NOT make me want.

That photo is NOT how a modern fiber product would look. Look at the bicycles that are made of carbon today. Example of a 100% carbon fiber bike that was built be the same exec now working at Apple: http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/kestrel/images/rt8_600.jpg

That cloth that is in clear epoxy is from the 80's or 90's and is not what people are doing today.

 

[Clouseau]

Simply put...resisting the urge to say something rude at you...yes, yes I do.

Alu mi ni um thats how we do it

 

[BrockC]

Reports from early 2011 are called "More recently"?

More recently than https://www.macrumors.com/2009/04/3...iber-composite-materials-for-exterior-shells/

 

[ChrisA]

I heard from a professor once that American English was actually how people spoke before the US was colonized, and that the British "developed" the current "accent" in order to differentiate themselves from the colonists.

I have no sources for this and do not vouch for its validity

That is true that British pronunciation has changed a LOT in the last 200 or 250 years. But so has American pronunciation. They were of course at one time the same, Not many people changed instantly during the ride across the ocean. It took years of being separated.

There are pockets of population that retain the original old English pronunciation still in America. These are in the Appellation Mountains. We make fun of them today for "hill billy" or "country" accents but that was the common speech in theboth America and England. Also is the music played with "fiddles" and so on. These small isolated pockets are the least changed. These people are descendants from run-away indentured servants, basically white slaves.

 

[mazz0]

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!!

'cos it isn't pronounced 'or', it's a softened 'er'. So the extra 'u' is not redundant. That said, pronunciations shift and with enough exposure to US dialects the general shift may well be to the harder US style 'color'. At which time the spelling may well follow suit.

What I don't get about "color" is: if you're going to change the spelling to be more phonetic, shouldn't it be "kuler" (or possibly "kuller")?

I heard from a professor once that American English was actually how people spoke before the US was colonized, and that the British "developed" the current "accent" in order to differentiate themselves from the colonists.

I have no sources for this and do not vouch for its validity

Very true, examples include words ending "er" changing to "re" and 'z's being replaced with 's's. I suspect the idea that this was a deliberate effort to differentiate the Brits from the Colonials is supposition or guesswork, but it's true that the more French sounding variants have come to prominence of late.

Your welcome for that whole "Save your rear end in World War II thing"

Oh, are you Russian?

(You mean "you're", by the way)

All I know is that when British rock stars sing, they sound like Yanks from Ohio. My thought on this is that Ohio non-accented American English is the "stripped down" basis of English, and all other accents consist of affectations, including Educated London English.

After all, it's hard to argue that the British pronounce things the "right way" considering there are many accents in the UK depending on the region and class that sound wildly different, all of them have roots 100's of years old, but NONE of them are the same accent or dialect used 300, 500 or 700 years back anyway. Your language has changed a great deal from 1776, for example, just as the American version has changed.

Regarding your first point, on a similar note I think ABBA sounded like southern English people when they sang. Interesting, that. I suspect much is due to whom the artists have heard a lot - perhaps the English artists you're thinking of listen to a lot of Ohioan music (are a lot of American musicians from Ohio)?

Regarding your second point - absolutely correct. There's no right/wrong, only different*.

*Actually, I take that back. No-one outside Yorkshire knows how to talk. And I doubly take it back when people say "less" when they mean "fewer".