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Even Apple products might only have one or two custom-machine parts, and they're usually the enclosure, which the customer can see and maybe makes the prettines
by apendleton 9y ago
Even Apple products might only have one or two custom-machine parts, and they're usually the enclosure, which the customer can see and maybe makes the prettiness matter to make the thing seem luxury. They don't have tons of internal separately machined components (it's all injection-molded, I think), and I'm sure they look for cost-cutting opportunities in internal components too (Tim Cook's background is in logistics, after all).
- gcb0 9y agoyep. saying this is well designed because they overcome all the hurdles with brute force is like showing how awesome is your webapp random-sort algo because you have one 24 core machine per user request. just look how expensive are all those servers! look! no cloud either! not even co-locating! isn't it awesome! (wasn't a question)! saddest part is that we are getting cheap fly-by-night puffy pieces. HN used to only alow the expensive ones on wired to pass. This community is dying :(
- TazeTSchnitzel 9y agoAnd the trick with their custom-machined enclosures is they're also the internal structure. That saves on remaining internal parts.
- killjoywashere 9y agoDid you ever take apart their plastic macbooks? They were packed to the gills, with 3x as many screws and parts as any Dell.
- lukeholder 9y agoThat's why the aluminium unibody design has been the standard now.