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Carbon Fiber MacBook (not really)

by Mat Lu Dec 14th 2006 at 9:30AM

So it seems like Apple has been going backwards in notebook materials. I remember when Uncle Steve was telling us that all the cool kids had titanium notebooks, and then along came the aluminum PowerBooks. Come on! Clearly recycled Coke cans can't hold a candle to the coolest airplane of all time. Seeing as how the AlBooks have been around (first as PBs and then MBPs) since 2003, it's about time for a revision and the obvious next material is carbon fiber (especially since those G5 PowerBook rumors never panned out). Well while we wait for Apple to get off its collective keister we can marvel at Rogotoko's amazing black MacBook mod, the "World's First Carbon Fiber MacBook." Now it's true that this "mod" basically consists of a sticker, but hey it looks cool, and as we've already established, that's all that really matters.

[via Gizmodo]

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ZipperSeven

Coolest airplane?

Pshaw!

This is a cool airplane:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XB-70

December 15 2006 at 8:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Henry

I beg to differ, but the coolest airplane of all time is not the SR-71, but the A-12 Oxcart. It flew higher and faster than the Blackbird, and was about 4 years earlier. They look almost identical but the A-12 can only hold one person.

December 14 2006 at 10:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Robin Sandborg

Thats really... not so nice. Whats up with the fake carbon fiber? The blackbook is nice, this isnt.

December 14 2006 at 9:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kevin

last i heard, there is a worldwide shortage of carbon fiber. so a carbon fiber macbook may not come at all or at a hefty premium. the only reason to put carbon fiber in the casing would be to save weight and i'm not sure that a few ounces off the total weight would justify the extra cost of cf

December 14 2006 at 3:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jeby

the plymeric matrix of composit is not a good heat conductor.

December 14 2006 at 12:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
deadlyhifi

It all depends how good carbon fibre is at conducting heat, although if it's not that good it may be possible when they get that 'turn processor heat into a vacuum' invention. It would look cool though.

December 14 2006 at 12:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Elwood Blues

Does anyone know if there are any heat problems with a carbon case?

December 14 2006 at 11:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jeby

Oh.. i dream a true carbon MacBook.. maybe tomorrow I try, in the labs of "Politecnico di Milano", to build something similar to the lid shell.

December 14 2006 at 10:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Real

I zoomed in on a couple of those pictures and was really disappointed that the sticker didn't wrap around the sides. It basically sits on the flat part of the top. It looks good in the pic but I wonder how good it would look in person when you could clearly see the stickers edge?

December 14 2006 at 9:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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