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The Apple Brick Finally Explained

The Apple Brick Finally Explained
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Posted October 4, 2008 at 10:34pm · 6 comments · Add Comment
gmckay
gmckay - October 6, 2008 at 3:01pm
umm..by your account then it is equally as 'cheap' to dump a bamboo laminated PC in the ocean... If the laminate on the biodegradable unit were to actually degrade (which is extremely negligible), then you still have a PC being dumped into the ocean. The benefit of aluminum is that even if you chuck it out..the recyclers will salvage it.
Ramses
Ramses - October 6, 2008 at 12:24pm
it should be biodegradable not just recyclable to be eco friendly, i doubt if more than 10% will get ever recycled it is still cheaper to dump these macs into ocean
gmckay
gmckay - October 5, 2008 at 4:43pm
Ramses.... News flash.. Aluminum can be RECYCLED.
Ramses
Ramses - October 5, 2008 at 1:22pm
this is again very eco unfriendly, they should use only bamboo like Dell recently tried in one of their PC
vush
vush - October 5, 2008 at 8:40am
SWEEEEET! I WILL FINALLY BE ABLE TO AFFORD A MAC!!!!
Nano
Nano - October 5, 2008 at 3:39am
Water jets are used to cut carbon fiber or fiberglass panels, laser is used to cut thin layers of metal or for engraving metalic parts. I do not think that the case is cut out of a solid piece of aluminum using the lasers and water and you do not mill aluminum to that kind of thickness for a computer case it makes no sense and would have prohibitive costs. In my opinion they are using water jets and/or lasers to cut out the holes and laser to engrave logos etc on the case. A clever design could make for a screwless case, nothing to do with one piece case or whatever. For me the case is pressed like all other cases just the cutting, engraving are different.
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