uh oh...really? it just doesn't seem like chips and scratches would be that visible on the white shiny plastic
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Do you think Apple is switching away from polycarbonate plastic for the MacBooks???
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uh oh...really? it just doesn't seem like chips and scratches would be that visible on the white shiny plastic
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Actually they plan to eliminate a lot of things by 2008.
Actually they plan to eliminate a lot of things by 2008.
I have both - an iBook and a Macbook Pro and I feel the exact same way. With my Macbook Pro I am very carefully but not with my iBook.
Hmm. I am not so sure about it and even if it is the case-you don't recognize it very easy on the white where as on the Macbook Pro a scratch looks horrible.
I've had a white polycarb iBook and now an aluminium MBP, and the iBook was much more durable. I like the pro look of the aluminium, but it's too fragile. I treat my MBP with kid gloves because I'm paranoid about denting the case, but then I went and sat on it a few weeks back, the case bent and now I have a laptop that looks like a friggin' banana. If I'd done the same with my iBook, it wouldn't have been any the worse for it. I look at my wife's hand-me-down iBook and feel quite envious that after three years it still looks perfect, while my MBP is distorted and uneven. Huh.
That is for internal components. The exterior of the macbook is not PVC.
Does anyone know if any laptops out there that use carbon fiber already? How likely is it that the Macbook Pros will switch to carbon fiber in the future while the macbooks will upgrade to aluminum?
Seems like the high-tech materials de jour are titanium, aluminum, magnesium, and carbon fiber....and the first two of which are old news for apple already...
Seems like the high-tech materials de jour are titanium, aluminum, magnesium, and carbon fiber....and the first two of which are old news for apple already...
Thats a very very cool description
I doubt it... An aluminum bicycle costs 1000 dollars for a high end model. A carbon fibre costs 5000+++ for a middle-ish model.
You can tell the price difference. No one can afford a carbon fibre laptop T_T
Wouldn't magnesium... Explode when you pour chemicals on it?
Thats a very very cool description
I doubt it... An aluminum bicycle costs 1000 dollars for a high end model. A carbon fibre costs 5000+++ for a middle-ish model.
You can tell the price difference. No one can afford a carbon fibre laptop T_T
Wouldn't magnesium... Explode when you pour chemicals on it?
NeXT cubes where magnesium. Its Old Skool!
Thats a very very cool description
I doubt it... An aluminum bicycle costs 1000 dollars for a high end model. A carbon fibre costs 5000+++ for a middle-ish model.
You can tell the price difference. No one can afford a carbon fibre laptop T_T
Wouldn't magnesium... Explode when you pour chemicals on it?
ahhh well....a carbon fiber laptop would have been seriously kewl....so until then, maybe the faux-carbon fiber-look sticker for the black macbook then!