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I was rereading some recent news bits, and realised that the Liquid Metal "Vitreloy" licencing deal Apple has reportedly just signed, could be the farthest thing from a bit.
The Air could be an obvious candidate for where to debut this, if only to shift an ounce or 3 from case to battery. Or, as part of bigger change?
Then the iPad, since gripping it with one hand gets tiring, so fast. (And it's bellied-out back form doesn't stay stable on a table, well.)
Apple could deploy this material quickly, even in all laptops as soon as they come up for a next revision; as one more thing in a "continuous improvement" approach. Or, they could save it to be one part of some sort of astonishing package of changes.
If the Air's due for it's first general design revision, perhaps that "package" of changes becomes the place where "Vitreloy" makes its Apple debut? (Crowd swoons.)
Jobs and Ive never really said much of substance about how they selected the current CNC and aluminum case concept. They never really defined the problem, never said how each alternative stacked up, and never said the criteria by which the current pick won. Even Ives's ten minute version of the story, is essentially just vague gushing. So we have precious little insight into how they really think about case materials & methods of fabrication. And hence, it's an exercise in almost pure guesswork to predict what they'll use this new Vitreloy alloy for.
Anybody know any metalurgists?
I was rereading some recent news bits, and realised that the Liquid Metal "Vitreloy" licencing deal Apple has reportedly just signed, could be the farthest thing from a bit.
The Air could be an obvious candidate for where to debut this, if only to shift an ounce or 3 from case to battery. Or, as part of bigger change?
Then the iPad, since gripping it with one hand gets tiring, so fast. (And it's bellied-out back form doesn't stay stable on a table, well.)
Apple could deploy this material quickly, even in all laptops as soon as they come up for a next revision; as one more thing in a "continuous improvement" approach. Or, they could save it to be one part of some sort of astonishing package of changes.
If the Air's due for it's first general design revision, perhaps that "package" of changes becomes the place where "Vitreloy" makes its Apple debut? (Crowd swoons.)
Jobs and Ive never really said much of substance about how they selected the current CNC and aluminum case concept. They never really defined the problem, never said how each alternative stacked up, and never said the criteria by which the current pick won. Even Ives's ten minute version of the story, is essentially just vague gushing. So we have precious little insight into how they really think about case materials & methods of fabrication. And hence, it's an exercise in almost pure guesswork to predict what they'll use this new Vitreloy alloy for.
Anybody know any metalurgists?