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Something to do with multiple Apple products being cut from the same sheet of aluminium to reduce waste, perhaps? From Ive's comments in the Objectified documen
by modernerd 16y ago
Something to do with multiple Apple products being cut from the same sheet of aluminium to reduce waste, perhaps? From Ive's comments in the Objectified documentary:
'This is the bezel for the iMac. When we remove the aluminium from the display in the centre here, we actually take that material, and then we can make two keyboard frames from it.'
[2min30 into this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdVG4LcoY4Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdVG4LcoY4Y ]
- tesseract 16y agoI thought the iPhone frame was steel. Besides, even if the materials were the same there'd be a kerf.
- nchlswu 16y agoI think it is directly tied to this process; but it's definitely something deliberate (and I assume thought out for a while) as well.
- ubermoe 16y agoThis explains that coincidence.
- blackguardx 16y agoMachining doesn't work that way. The groove in the laptop is done with a round nosed end-mill. It makes the rounded profile and creates lots of chips. Those chips are then melted down and made into something else by some other company.
- tesseract 16y agoMachining still doesn't work that way, but on the Air the cutout goes all the way through so there is no need for a round nose mill specifically.
- blackguardx 16y agoSorry I haven't seen one. I only have an aluminum macbook