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NYC_SKP

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6. Tiny bezel, great design. An apple employee told me some inside history.

Reply to Jenoch (Reply #5)

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 03:59 PM

Dec 2013

Supposedly the design team was challenged to make a super heavy duty and compact package and when one of the designers said, tongue in cheek, we'll make it from titanium, Jobs said, "do it!".

And they did.

Turns out that titanium is really hard to work with and it shields the wifi signal more than other metals so later units were aluminum.

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WOW, first my Macbook of 9 years bit the dust [View all] nadinbrzezinski Dec 2013 OP

My Mac G3 Powerbook Pismo and G4 Titaniums still work... NYC_SKP Dec 2013 #1

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