I dont know if anyone else noticed this, I did a quick search and didn't see anything. I would have to say one of my favorite things about my Aluminum Macbook compared to my old MBP is that the feet keep the laptop high enough off the table. Every MBP I ever had I ended up with some little grain of something scratching the bottom because the feet weren't tall enough. Just thought I would share!
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What nice feet you have!
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Ha. Yea I noticed the little wear marks on them, but better them than the aluminum. Or as the British say... Alumineeum.
Get over it, its just a machine.
The only way they could scratch is if you drag your computer across the table or something.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one on MR who doesn't baby their mac I drag my computer around on the table all the time!
I drag my computer around on the table all the time! I have to admit to feeling saddened when I found out the feet weren't as silky smooth as they were when i first got my MacBook.
But you guys don't say Uranum, Sodum, Potassum, Calcum, Strontum, Helum, Lithum, Beryllum, Magnesum, Titanum etc. so why should it be Aluminum? It doesn't make sense
if we are going to get into the pronunciation debate then I am going to have to step in being a brit:
http://dictionary.reference.com/dic?q=aluminium&search=search
You can see that we just break down the work in slight different ways making it different
Also Sulphur is spelt sulphur not sulfur
http://dictionary.reference.com/dic?q=aluminium&search=search
You can see that we just break down the work in slight different ways making it different
Also Sulphur is spelt sulphur not sulfur
I'm just glad that over 3 years in my iBook still has its feet. The Apple salesman I talked over the purchase with swung his PowerBook out of his bag to show how well it was holding up and he pointed out that the only thing which wasn't perfect about it was that it had lost its feet.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one on MR who doesn't baby their mac
My MB has scratches on the underside.........it is bound to happen.....and its underneath it where no one sees it.......so im not too worried...
I'll have to agree with you, but only because you're from MD
Haha whatever it takes
Well you shouldn't weigh things with measurements of mass.But you guys don't say Uranum, Sodum, Potassum, Calcum, Strontum, Helum, Lithum, Beryllum, Magnesum, Titanum etc. so why should it be Aluminum? It doesn't make sense
EDIT: You guys don't use pounds and ounces do you?
We do use pounds and ounces here although the metric system is become more prevalent.
if we are going to get into the pronunciation debate then I am going to have to step in being a brit:
http://dictionary.reference.com/dic?q=aluminium&search=search
You can see that we just break down the work in slight different ways making it different
Also Sulphur is spelt sulphur not sulfur
O indeed it is and I can't believe we actually gave in and let the spelling be changed to sulfur! I did a while back change all of the Sulfur (Sulphur) wiki page to from sulfur to Sulphur(the true spelling). I got a few formal warnings.
Honestly it is so annoying hearing all the of keynotes when Steve Jobs says Aloomenum
so nice when you finally hear Jonathan Ive
I was sad a week or two ago when my PowerBook finally lost one of its feet somewhere on campus while I was carrying it around; the little bugger nearly made it four years
oh alright. I just get tired of all the countries that use grams to measure weight. It doesn't even make sense! A gram is not a measurement of weight. That's like using velocity to measure how fast a car goes around a race track.
The gram is a unit of mass, as is the pound. The gram can also be a unit of weight, as can the pound. On Earth, for all intents and purposes mass and weight are equivalent.
No, it'd be like using mph or m/s (both units of velocity and speed) to measure how fast a car goes around a racetrack, and that's exactly what we do.
Just a slight correction right there, if a car did one lap of a race track and you where measuring its velocity it would be 0 so it's not the same. Velocity needs a direction and in this case that direction would have to be in a straight line.
The pound is a measure of mass. Weight is entirely dependent on mass but incorporates the effect of gravity, mass doesn't. While you may say that on earth there is no real need to distinguish between mass and weight, to state that a measure of mass (a gram) can also be a measure of weight (Newton) is very very wrong
its just that americans are too lazy to say 5 syllables, so they just say aloooominum which has 4.
bit like them spelling colour as color and programme as program
bit like them spelling colour as color and programme as program
Seriously guys?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aluminum
In America, it is spelled aluminUm, there is no IUM for the alu-min-e-um, and thus, is aloooominum, as you all evidently hate.
We pronounce calcium, cal-see-um, because there's an IUM to do that with.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aluminium
That is the "chiefly British" spelling, which yields a different pronunciation.
Make sense?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aluminum
In America, it is spelled aluminUm, there is no IUM for the alu-min-e-um, and thus, is aloooominum, as you all evidently hate.
We pronounce calcium, cal-see-um, because there's an IUM to do that with.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aluminium
That is the "chiefly British" spelling, which yields a different pronunciation.
Make sense?