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i know whats coming!

I actually HOPE they ditch the plastic casing. Almost every person I know with an iBook has had repairs of some sort. I asked an Apple tech and he said 90% of his business is iBooks- plastic casing expands too much when hot, parts are free to move about.
The aluminum casing powerbooks waaay outlast the iBooks and I imagine the same will be true for macbook/mbp. Wonder if macbook will dissolve into ultra portable mac, then macbook pro may get a 12'' little brother again? I don't think Apple will have 3 lines of different laptop options (ultra portable, macbook, and mbp??).
Whatever they do, I personally will never buy into that plastic casing crap and I'm sorry to those of you that have. Best of luck to you!!! My 1st powerbook has gone 4 years with no repair (knock on wood) and i only upgraded for speed- to a mbp
 
nre999 said:
Aren't the MBPs 1" already?
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Figured they'd have to do some reconfiguring to fit such a big package in a small, stylish box. Tantalium? Nobody's really heard of it I'm sorry to say, I doubt Apple would advertise an element in it's computer's nobody would have heard of... I for one would think black anodized aluminum for the Pros, but that's just me.
 
dacreativeguy said:
Why Tantalum?

What about Tritanium? How about Carbonite? That oughta be pretty strong?
Then there is always tranparent aluminum. That would look pretty cool and still be durable, right?
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Because it is so TANTALIZING.

Serious, Tantalum comes from the Greek Tantalus which is derived from the name of the man who was sentenced to an eternity with fruit above him and water below him that was just out of his reach.

What would be mor TANTALIZING than a MBP or MP made from TANTALUM.

"Apple Mac Pro Tantalum - Tantalizing to the Core (all 8 of them)"

The marketing cross overs are ridiculous.

I was just joking when I came up with this, now I am almost have serious (Besides the other elements you mentioned are either too brittle or oxidize with heat).
 
I think Apple backed themselves into a corner by mixing the consumer and pro line styles. People now are going to expect an Aluminum Macbook, and will be disappointed when it's not. I know at least 5 people who didn't need a MBP but were more then happy to pay out for one because of the case. Apple would not want to mix their lines. I am sure they will have to do something as people are expecting it, but I think or at least hope they come up with a clever way to do this.
 
They will be made out of aluminum, and the MBP will step up to tungsten carbide to make them scratch resistant. :rolleyes: The addded 10 lbs. of weight is no big deal, right? :p
 
They will not make the two lines look the same. This would definetly hurt the company. Many people who are on the fence for which line to get will go for the mbp because of how it looks. It looks nicer and tells everyone you have a better computer. You see this same strategy in other companies like camera companies in there bodies/lenses
 
I could see the MacBook getting a little bit of Al. Just enough to make it look interesting, though. They definitely don't want to have their MBs and MBPs looking identical, so we will never see a full Al MB.
 
I really can't see Apple's entire product line going aluminium. It doesn't make any sense to me. Besides, a lot of students buy MacBooks and those things can take a beating. If the MacBook went aluminium a lot of students would have them all banged up.
 
nre999 said:
Forget Alluminium, Titanium, and all of that craziness. Remember apple zigs when others zag - so when everyone else is still making plastic laptops - they go with tatanium and alluminum - well here is the next logical step:

http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/Ta/key.html

Tantalum:


I can see it now ... Apple Tantalum line of Pro Products

You Can Never be to Hard, to Gray or to Fast.

Maybe it would have saved this poor guy: http://www.tuaw.com/2007/06/09/roadkill-macbook-pro-keeps-on-keepin-on/
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Haha...well, if we're gonna go in that direction, then Apple might as well use unobtanium. I love conjecture. :)
 
vicious7 said:
Haha...well, if we're gonna go in that direction, then Apple might as well use unobtanium. I love conjecture. :)
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Two things first, conjecture rocks! You can make up whatever you want and if you are wrong so what, it was a guess anyways.

Second, how would you market Unobtanium? I mean marketing Tantalum is easy (it literally means "Tantalizing" - see my previous post for the tagline - I really like it, well maybe cause I wrote it).

Maybe:

"The Mac Pro Unobtanium. Because You Can Never Be Too Obtuse or Too Obscure."
 
Oh come on! If the MB would get an alu case, lines would indeed melt together. If they did it, they'd have to go to one "apple portable" line, without the "pro".
Point taken, the iMac does feature alu and I still don't get it, because it doesn't fit in the philosophy, but the designers at apple knew very good that alu on a consumer model would sell like hell.
Stepping to other metals for the Pro equipment is highly unlikely. Alu has the advantage of being really soft, and therefor easy and cheap to manufacture things from.

Anyway, it seems that nobody is realising that (without the new iMacs of course), the MacBook the most recently redesigned apple product!
It's unthinkable, almost impossible, they'd change it all over for the holidays. They simply won't do this. Not this fast anyway. Perhaps in a year or two, but def. not sooner!

However, they might just release an alu MacBook Pro 13", about the same specs as the blackbook, just as a christmas present, as the "new PB12". They won't market it as a MacBook though, even with the same interior.
 
nre999 said:
Forget Alluminium, Titanium, and all of that craziness. Remember apple zigs when others zag - so when everyone else is still making plastic laptops - they go with tatanium and alluminum - well here is the next logical step...

Tantalum:


I can see it now ... Apple Tantalum line of Pro Products
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I can see it now,

"The New Tantaluminium :apple: MacBook Pro, weighs only 18kg's! Only $40999*

*RRP"

:p ;)
 
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