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> gluing everything together enables more compact, durable designs Maybe a tiiiiiiiny bit more compact, but definitely not more durable. Frame.work can apparen
by tpxl 5y ago
> gluing everything together enables more compact, durable designs
Maybe a tiiiiiiiny bit more compact, but definitely not more durable. Frame.work can apparently produce easily serviceable, rather thin designs of laptops that are even modular (www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rkTgPt3M4k). This is way thinner than my 2008 era HP and thinner than my 2021 era Lenovo.
As far as phones go, the PCBs are a tiny part of the phone (The cpu, ram, storage combined are less than 1/2 of the phone surface area and probably less than 1/4 of the volume) so gluing them together doesn't even get you much. You might get a _small_ bit by soldering in the battery in the sense that you then don't need a "box" for the removable battery, but that is a small amount of space compared to the battery itself.
- TheParkShark 5y agoIs the only purpose of the glue to make it harder to disassemble? If nothing else changed but glue wasn’t added would the product still function and look the same?
- mrguyorama 5y agoIt makes waterproofing a bit easier I think