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More Magnets in the Intel iBook?
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MacMosher
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macluver101 said:
Mech is right... read before writing.
but to help you out a bit, its all to deal with how things that would be affected i.e. hardrive... etc. are proctected from the inducutance of the magnets. Any moving magnet can induce a current in a circut so it is important that things are sheilded and Im sure that a company such as apple would not release anything that would not meet this standard
longofest said:
you make the button flip one of the magnets so that it has it actually resists the other magnet causing the lid to pop open.
Thats the way I see it working anyways.
HiRez
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Well I hope they use magnet tech to snap batteries into place too, because the battery latch on my Titanium PowerBook broke and it's basically unfixable. A tiny cheap plastic part that costs less than a penny which makes the whole thing inoperable away from a power outlet...brilliant.
nagromme
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There are plenty of magnets already in an Apple laptop: the speakers, the fan motors, the optical drive motor, the HD motor, the MagSafe connector, and (I believe) a magnet that all recent Apple laptops use to detect whether the lid is closed or not. And probably plenty of other devices with magnetic fields, like maybe the lamp, trackpad, and battery. What's one more magnet? 🙂
sintaxi said:
I thought the purpose of installing magnets is getting rid of that
button / mechanism 😕
I know Sony solved that problem using a stiff hinge to keep the lid closed.
It loosen as you pry the lid open. Maybe it involves magnets in some ways, i dont know how the system works in details.
Super Dave
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ieani said:
Apple does not call press conferences for "improvements." Not in the sense of speed bumps or hard drive bumps. They only call press conferences when they have a brand new product to introduce, or one that is dramatically different from previous models. Such as the various generations of iMacs.
David😎
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MacMosher
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sintaxi said:
you think so simply 😛 what I actually picture them doing, is having the button reverse a current, all currents induce a magnetic feild and so by reversing a current it will reverse the polarity of your magnet (pretty simple stuff). Thats how I picture it working😀
gauchogolfer
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I agree that that's too complex. I was just trying to correct the impression that magnets like this would draw a lot of power.jsw said:
Magnetic latch a very bad idea
Bad enough the power cord uses a magnet. But the latch that closes the computer is much more likely to be where some silly goof may still try to put floppies near the machine (if they have a USB floppy drive), and suddenly zap the contents off their disk. I might add, I've seen latches on Powerbooks become magnetic before for other reasons. Still I think it is a bad idea. I much prefer the iBook G3 (original) latchless design.
Bad enough the power cord uses a magnet. But the latch that closes the computer is much more likely to be where some silly goof may still try to put floppies near the machine (if they have a USB floppy drive), and suddenly zap the contents off their disk. I might add, I've seen latches on Powerbooks become magnetic before for other reasons. Still I think it is a bad idea. I much prefer the iBook G3 (original) latchless design.
I don't think having more magnets in notebooks a good idea. Your ROLEX (or PATEK or whatsoever) might be affected.
thejadedmonkey
macrumors G3
funkychunkz said:
Haha...Are you implyin that we are all zombies funkychunkz?
Well, my Dell laptop from '96 (Latitude CPi for all interested) had a 13.3" screen, with a 1024 by 786 resolution.DeSnousa said:
Oh course, that was 10 years ago though, so I would assume by now technology can give us a 1024 by 786 resolution screen. 😀
MacMosher
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Aglio said:
I honeslty don't believe that you will run into any troubles with these magnets.
Apple has more then likly looked into all the situations that we have mentioned above and figured out a way to sheild the problem.
or I hope at least. Im sure that there will be some freak problems here an there but for the mostpart I think your alright
gnasher729
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maestro55 said:
And someone else is pointing out right now that a look at the Intel processor price list shows clearly that only a company run by complete morons or a company building computers for complete morons (Dell, are you hearing me? ) would put a Core Solo chip into _any_ computer.
Core Solo: 10 percent cheaper at half the performance of Core Duo.
Core Solo: 10 percent more performance at more than twice the price of Celeron M.
Given a choice between a powerful and a cheap chip, Core Solo manages to get the worst of both worlds by being slow and expensive.
gnasher729
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dornoforpyros said:
Harddrives tend to be utterly unimpressed by any magnet that you would find in the average household. Should you have evidence on a harddisk that you want destroyed, don't even think about using a harddisk. Use an angle grinder.
MacMosher
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gnasher729 said:
Yeah, generally there are not any magnets you can find that will take ou the shields provided by the hardrive however if they were in direct contact (no shield which I cant ever see happening) it would take nothing. You have to remeber that the ironic thing is that things are stored in your hardrive by magnets.😱