Sickening...

I’m actually more excited about trying out the Fusion Drive more than anything on the new iMac.

I really hope Apple doesn’t get credit for “inventing” something that existed already on that one. Hybrid hard drives/intelligent caching have existed in a lot of forms on PC’s for a few years now. The drive automatically caches data to the SSD and when it runs out of space, dumps the least used data to the HDD.

Lots of motherboards now even include a dedicated mini PCI-Express SSD slot directly on the board to eliminate the bandwidth bottlenecks associated with a SATA drive.

I think the problem isn’t that Apple gets credited directly from anyone in the know for things that they ‘borrow’ - it’s that the marketing machine that drives our consumerisms does such a great job touting the dumbest stuff and the users grab hold of it and believe it’s magic…kind of like the commercial where the guy is slowly swiping his thumb from right to left and from top to bottom of the iPhone 5 screen - we should have already known Apple would figure out the exact perfect screen size while everyone else blew it.

Samsung is starting to do a good job (via their latest ad agency) at breaking through the invented here perceptions and subtley mocking Apple for it’s claimed eccentricities.

The flush mounted, contour following, texture matching-power-button-on-the-back = horrible design.

I have trouble finding it - my mother in-law and my mother whom I purchased iMacs for a year or so ago simply leave their machines on as they absolutely struggle to turn them on/off. I cringed when I saw the photo on this thread showing that exact aspect of the design.

I’m a big Apple fan-boy but their ergonomics went out the window many years ago when Ive’s influence came into the room.

(tell me you haven’t forgotten about the round mouse)

I can’t recall the last time I turned off my computer - not that it’s difficult or non-intuitive to do so. There’s just no reason for me anymore, just shut the cover or walk away.

There’s loads of space in there !

how do they produce the body? cast? stamps? machined?

I would imagine that it is cast and then machined. At least, I thought all these Apple products were being machined…

BTW, on a side note. I visited a couple of faucet factories in GD recently. Basically the same process. Brass casting the basic form, machining to form flat surfaces for seals, tapping the threads for assembly, polishing the exterior for a smooth finish. It’s not that complicated (at least when you are chroming brass).

thats what i think would be the efficient ways too, but why on Macbook pro they’re cnc’ing it from a solid aluminum? (thats what i get from their ads though)

I bet that’s just good marketing at work…kinda like how Owen Wilson in the first Fockers movie carved the 9 foot tall, 6 foot diameter alter from a solid piece of wood!

:slight_smile:

They probably want to avoid any possibility of voids/porosity forming in the casting process…although with their supply chain muscle they could probably invent some new way of casting that guarantees no voids. The parts aren’t so thick that a lot of the base aluminum chunk would be cut away.

so for the motherboard screw fixture is cast altogether or a different part that is welded to the bodycase? if it is a different part, why dont they just cast it together?

Screws work better in steel. It is more difficult to strip the threads. You’d be better off gluing steel studs to the aluminium piece.

PEM’s?

… how do they produce the body?



… they could probably invent some new way of casting that guarantees no voids.



… I would imagine that it is cast and then machined.

Actually, they’re mined out of the mineral-rich ground of Saturn’s moon Titan, graded for color and size, and shipped back to Earth. … .

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Actually, they’re mined out of the mineral-rich ground of Saturn’s moon Titan, graded for color and size, and shipped back to Earth. … .

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soo thats how they do it! :stuck_out_tongue:

So… I just got this new iMac last week. It’s as good as looks in pics even given the somewhat deceptive angle pics.

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Actually, they’re mined out of the mineral-rich ground of Saturn’s moon Titan, graded for color and size, and shipped back to Earth. … .

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soo thats how they do it! :p[/quote]
And Jobs is on site running the show with Tupac :sunglasses: