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What if the brick is real? |
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Sunday, 05 October 2008 |
So the big news is that the rumored "brick" might be a new manufacturing technique that will catapult Apple ahead of all other manufacturers. Okay, so Steve has some experience in setting up plants with his NeXT plant he made, and with modern technology and all of Apple's cash I'm sure Steve could come up with a really kick-ass manufacturing plant. But what will this mean for the modders and hackers of Apple products?
If the next MacBook and MacBook Pro are made from a single piece of aluminum, I'm sure they'll be sweet. Heat displacement should be a lot more even, and the manufacturing price should drop (far less screws to assemble), and the product could be a lot greener (we all benefit from green products). But what about when the next Mac Mini comes out? How dependent on the case will the computer be? If the case has been designed to help with the heat dispersion, if you remove the case, will you have to over accommodate for that change in your mods? If you want to tear apart a new MacBook Pro and use it in your own custom case, will you have to have twice the amount of fans? How tied to the CPU would a one-piece / brick case be?
Now of course this is speculation, complete and total speculation. If the brick is truly a process instead of a product, I hope that the end result will not be something that hurts modders in the future. This is just an opinion and something to think about if the current brick rumors are true.
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