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    I have a hard time believing that if I save three or four ounces on a notebook, that it's a game-changer, said Margevicius. "The hype around this company can be pretty extreme at times." "I'm not an expert on aluminum manufacturing processes," Apple 2.0 blogger Philip Elmer-DeWitt told MacNewsWorld, "but I did enough checking to know there are industrial technologies for airplane manufacturers that involve laser-cutting for aluminum. Full Article at Malaysia Sun
    The hype around this company can be pretty extreme at times.
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 13 months ago
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  1. but I did enough checking to know there are industrial technologies for airplane manufacturers that involve laser-cutting for aluminum. There are pros and cons; there's tricky stuff about swirls and shockwaves and turbulence flow. It's a fairly sophisticated technology, and it's real. That seems to be c...
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 13 months ago
  2. Maybe one of their Asian suppliers is using this technology.
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 13 months ago
  3. I'm not an expert on aluminum manufacturing processes
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 13 months ago
  4. Less touch times, fewer parts, lighter materials -- it's all goodness ... One of the things that's intrigued me with aluminum is that it's heat-dissipating. If the heat were to be channeled through the notebook case itself, that's pretty cool. If the case ends up being a heat sink of some sort, that to ...
    SOURCE: Malaysia Sun 13 months ago

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