I don't think that the 'LiquidMetal' tech allows for dye throughout the metal, it's certainly not mentioned on their website. Anyway, as yet there's no evidence that Apple are intending to use Liquidmetal for their macbook enclosure - their only patents that mention it are for fuel cells
As usual, Apple was not the FIRST in the history of human beings to do something. But I think it's fairly well accepted that they POPULARIZED the "chiclet keyboard inside a recessed well" look that has become popular since 2007/2008.
You don't see too many of those before the 2006 MacBook. I'm sure you could find an exception, but they didn't really exist in large numbers.
Exactly, in fact they had gone terminally out of fashion since the late 70s/early 80s and as far as I know no mass market PCs had ever featured one - especially not recessed. I was just curious when the PC makers got in on it.
Google "Jan Schroers". He makes Liquidmetal in different color variances with different alloy compositions. It's dope.
Yes I know, but it doesn't allow for a generic dye to be introduced or give complete control over the colour - it's amazing because of the possibilities of structure and strength, the first thing we see from them using it is very unlikely to be something that could be achieved just by anodizing aluminium.
It would probably be more accurate to say they don't do finishes and coatings unless it doesn't *look* like a finish or coating. Their whole design approach is semi-brutalist and definitely focussed on honest materials, but as long as the product appears that way to the end user, they are not above using deception (invisible coatings etc.).
Yes, one simple rule they seem to follow is not make a material look like something else (don't paint plastic to look like metal, it usually looks cheap and certainly once you touch it, it feels cheap, it feels like dressing something up as something it isn't).
I just do not see this happening unless they make a black model completely across the whole line of laptops. I suppose the other option is that this could be made out of the unibody carbon-fiber. Here's to hoping it's a dramatic redesign!
Supposedly Steve Jobs has a long standing desire to get rid of all the external screws on the laptops, so maybe that will be it. The two halves of the shell will be made to be so incredibly sexy that they're held together by mutual attraction.
Implying their terrible Photoshop job is any sort of representation whatsoever of how it will actually look.
Well, if you believe Apple had the first chicklet keyboard, they started in the 70s. Which creates problems, since Apple DIDN'T have the first keyboard like that.
How dare you come to the Apple fanboi HQ and state that Apple wasn't the first when it comes to any feature they announce... tar and feather I say
The real question is why has it taken them so long to offer a black anodized aluminium finish. Black finishes are definitely in their design language, and they have superior thermal performance.
They should absolutely give us black MBAs and MBPs
Fewer models simplifies supply issues. Cosmetic features are an easy way to add perceived value to a high end model. They are also more likely to spur sales when they are genuinely infrequent.
Gateway(tm) (generic name = Holstein) Camo . (I'm purist and prefer 'black' Holstein Camo, just in case you have to hide your laptop in the middle of a dairy herd).
And just to the right of the trackpad, meticulously hidden by the photographer and ad agency, are competing billboards with Microsoft, Intel, and nVidia logos!
Apple uses black in their design language, but they don't typically do finishes, paints, or coatings (with the single exception of the coloured iPods).
Even though it would be infinitely harder to accomplish, I would believe this more if they had found a way to make the metal itself black, as opposed to coating/anodising.
Sorry, but anodizing DOES make the metal itself black. It's a chemical modification of the surface layer of aluminum.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodizing
Anodizing allows the introduction of colors - look at the samples in the above or think about Maglite flashlights.
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I don't think that the 'LiquidMetal' tech allows for dye throughout the metal, it's certainly not mentioned on their website. Anyway, as yet there's no evidence that Apple are intending to use Liquidmetal for their macbook enclosure - their only patents that mention it are for fuel cells
Who said it would be liquidmetal? That is extremely unlikely due to cost. But if they did, it is possible to color Liquidmetal devices.
This guy did
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This is correct that the macbook pros will be offered in different colors, probably just black to start. This is NOT a paint finish, it's actually die mixed into the metal composition of the new "liquid metal" rights apple has purchased (which I don't know enough about)
And I agree that it's extremely unlikely, and I'm sure it's possible to produce a surface colour on Liquidmetal too, but it isn't possible to make it black 'all-through' the way that say plastic could be. At least if it is their website isn't saying so.
as an owner of an existing air I find the current aluminium finish very slippery t ohold. Looks beutiful but very easy to drop it. I hope that if they do move to another case ( like carbon fibre) they find a way to make the case less slippery.
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Here we go. 2 minutes in photoshop:
enjoy!
LIQUIDMETAL fools.
I don't think that the 'LiquidMetal' tech allows for dye throughout the metal, it's certainly not mentioned on their website. Anyway, as yet there's no evidence that Apple are intending to use Liquidmetal for their macbook enclosure - their only patents that mention it are for fuel cells
http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-is-gr...xclusive/75486
Google "Jan Schroers". He makes Liquidmetal in different color variances with different alloy compositions. It's dope.
I believe the 2006 Core Duo MacBook was the first MacBook to have the chiclet keyboard inside a recessed well. Someone correct me if I'm wrong
You're right - I was mixing it up with when it first reached the MBP, which was 2008.
As usual, Apple was not the FIRST in the history of human beings to do something. But I think it's fairly well accepted that they POPULARIZED the "chiclet keyboard inside a recessed well" look that has become popular since 2007/2008.
You don't see too many of those before the 2006 MacBook. I'm sure you could find an exception, but they didn't really exist in large numbers.
Exactly, in fact they had gone terminally out of fashion since the late 70s/early 80s and as far as I know no mass market PCs had ever featured one - especially not recessed. I was just curious when the PC makers got in on it.
Google "Jan Schroers". He makes Liquidmetal in different color variances with different alloy compositions. It's dope.
Yes I know, but it doesn't allow for a generic dye to be introduced or give complete control over the colour - it's amazing because of the possibilities of structure and strength, the first thing we see from them using it is very unlikely to be something that could be achieved just by anodizing aluminium.
Yeah, it's a vague area and I'm by no means sure.
It would probably be more accurate to say they don't do finishes and coatings unless it doesn't *look* like a finish or coating. Their whole design approach is semi-brutalist and definitely focussed on honest materials, but as long as the product appears that way to the end user, they are not above using deception (invisible coatings etc.).
Yes, one simple rule they seem to follow is not make a material look like something else (don't paint plastic to look like metal, it usually looks cheap and certainly once you touch it, it feels cheap, it feels like dressing something up as something it isn't).
I just do not see this happening unless they make a black model completely across the whole line of laptops. I suppose the other option is that this could be made out of the unibody carbon-fiber. Here's to hoping it's a dramatic redesign!
Yeah, a complete redesign!
From flat to ...
wait what
Yeah, a complete redesign!
From flat to ...
wait what
Supposedly Steve Jobs has a long standing desire to get rid of all the external screws on the laptops, so maybe that will be it. The two halves of the shell will be made to be so incredibly sexy that they're held together by mutual attraction.
Implying their terrible Photoshop job is any sort of representation whatsoever of how it will actually look.
Well, if you believe Apple had the first chicklet keyboard, they started in the 70s. Which creates problems, since Apple DIDN'T have the first keyboard like that.
How dare you come to the Apple fanboi HQ and state that Apple wasn't the first when it comes to any feature they announce... tar and feather I say
Oh yeah, and the IBM-PCjr
The real question is why has it taken them so long to offer a black anodized aluminium finish. Black finishes are definitely in their design language, and they have superior thermal performance.
They should absolutely give us black MBAs and MBPs
Fewer models simplifies supply issues. Cosmetic features are an easy way to add perceived value to a high end model. They are also more likely to spur sales when they are genuinely infrequent.
I want Blue Dalmatian!
Gateway(tm) (generic name = Holstein) Camo . (I'm purist and prefer 'black' Holstein Camo, just in case you have to hide your laptop in the middle of a dairy herd).
A black model? Like this one?
And just to the right of the trackpad, meticulously hidden by the photographer and ad agency, are competing billboards with Microsoft, Intel, and nVidia logos!
I'm not sure I see this happening at all either.
Apple uses black in their design language, but they don't typically do finishes, paints, or coatings (with the single exception of the coloured iPods).
Even though it would be infinitely harder to accomplish, I would believe this more if they had found a way to make the metal itself black, as opposed to coating/anodising.
Sorry, but anodizing DOES make the metal itself black. It's a chemical modification of the surface layer of aluminum.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodizing
Anodizing allows the introduction of colors - look at the samples in the above or think about Maglite flashlights.
I don't think that the 'LiquidMetal' tech allows for dye throughout the metal, it's certainly not mentioned on their website. Anyway, as yet there's no evidence that Apple are intending to use Liquidmetal for their macbook enclosure - their only patents that mention it are for fuel cells
http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-is-gr...xclusive/75486
Who said it would be liquidmetal? That is extremely unlikely due to cost. But if they did, it is possible to color Liquidmetal devices.
Who said it would be liquidmetal? That is extremely unlikely due to cost. But if they did, it is possible to color Liquidmetal devices.
This guy did
This is correct that the macbook pros will be offered in different colors, probably just black to start. This is NOT a paint finish, it's actually die mixed into the metal composition of the new "liquid metal" rights apple has purchased (which I don't know enough about)
And I agree that it's extremely unlikely, and I'm sure it's possible to produce a surface colour on Liquidmetal too, but it isn't possible to make it black 'all-through' the way that say plastic could be. At least if it is their website isn't saying so.
I want Blue Dalmatian!
You mean like this?
http://www.apple.com/pr/photos/imac2001/imac_tokyo.html