It seems to me that with them launching new versions of all mac models at WWDC, they have an opportunity to do something they've never done before: they could update the casing materials for all mac models in one fell swoop.
Here's a dark horse prediction for you: Next week we see all macs get the liquid metal treatment... Or even better (and more unlikely), how cool would it be if they did what I said in my post from this time last year:
Here's a dark horse prediction for you: Next week we see all macs get the liquid metal treatment... Or even better (and more unlikely), how cool would it be if they did what I said in my post from this time last year:
This one is for the materials science geeks on this forum. I had a look back to this patent where Apple was researching Carbon fibre shells:
https://www.macrumors.com/2009/04/3...iber-composite-materials-for-exterior-shells/
I was also looking at how long they've been working with Liquid metal:
http://m.gizmodo.com/5608322/is-apple-working-on-liquid-metal-terminators-or-what
And it seems to me that they are pursuing BOTH technologies with equal effort. It seemed strange to me that they would put so much effort into to two technologies when they would likely only use one for cases/structural requirements.
And then I found this excerpt from a book which describes how to fuse carbon fibre with metal alloys to create a sandwich which is similar to the first patent l linked to above.:
http://books.google.com.au/books?id...zfsvjjgl445HD_urpHU&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
Based on all this, my guess is that apple is making some kind of fusion casing material that will be mouldable like liquid metal, have the extra strength of carbon fibre, and have the strength/weight properties of both. That would also explain some of the "darker" metal/liquid metal pics that have been floating around.
What do you think?