# lol @ this rumor "new macbooks being machined out of billet aluminum"
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069
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**Created:** [October 7, 2008, 8:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069 "2008-10-07T08:42:02Z")
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### Author:  [@camarojoe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/camarojoe)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 11:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/21 "2008-10-14T11:30:09Z")
And the new MacBooks cease to give me a wood today.
Nice improvements, but it’s a notebook. Woooooo
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### Author:  [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 11:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/22 "2008-10-14T11:34:28Z")
I’m excited…
I get a decent 3D chip, LED display, a case that won’t crack, a nicer touchpad, and it will cost me the same as what I paid for my current macbook.
I’ll call that impressive for the price. I wonder what dell gets you for $1200.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 11:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/23 "2008-10-14T11:41:10Z")
yeah, just saw that… I’m amazed. Probably explains the price hike.
dumb question, why are they offering 2 different GPU’s on the same computer?
> NVIDIA GeForce 9400M + 9600M GT with 256MB
I wonder if this is any hint as to what nvidia has in store for the future (SLi independent of the GPU, much like ATi has done?). I wonder why they didnt go with the new GTX 200 series since they could of got twice the power out of one gpu (could be power related too I guess)
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### Author:  [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/24 "2008-10-14T11:42:08Z")
considering you can get pretty much the equivalent for ~$800 for a PC…i wouldn’t call this an amazing deal.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/25 "2008-10-14T11:42:51Z")
lol figures… just lost a bunch of $$$ in apple stock
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### Author:  [@RobHimself](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RobHimself)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 11:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/26 "2008-10-14T11:45:25Z")
> [@Dr.Stevil](#):
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> lol figures… just lost a bunch of $$$ in apple stock
They dropped at the announcement of the new ipods as well.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/27 "2008-10-14T11:46:47Z")
that figures ☹
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### Author:  [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/28 "2008-10-14T11:46:57Z")
> [@OfficerK](#):
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> considering you can get pretty much the equivalent for ~$800 for a PC…i wouldn’t call this an amazing deal.
show me.
and for those trading: you make money when there is risk / you know something that other people don’t… everybody and their mother knows how these apple releases work at this point.
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### Author:  [@camarojoe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/camarojoe)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 11:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/29 "2008-10-14T11:57:39Z")
> [@Dr.Stevil](#):
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> dumb question, why are they offering 2 different GPU’s on the same computer?
Sony has been offering this with their notebooks for a while. Dell too.
It lets you select at bootup which graphics card you want to use to help conserve battery. Nothing new to the industry.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/30 "2008-10-14T12:01:45Z")
heh, I wonder why they do that, versus just throttling down the GPU to save power? (under clocking)
So can they use them in parallel or is it one or the other?
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### Author:  [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 12:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/31 "2008-10-14T12:03:51Z")
> [@theblue](#):
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> I’m excited…
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> I get a decent 3D chip, LED display, a case that won’t crack, a nicer touchpad, and it will cost me the same as what I paid for my current macbook.
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> I’ll call that impressive for the price. I wonder what dell gets you for $1200.
2 notebooks with everything you listed above.
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### Author:  [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/32 "2008-10-14T12:07:06Z")
no… as soon as I put LED on the nice 13.3 dell it was \> $1500
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 12:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/33 "2008-10-14T12:12:17Z")
> [@theblue](#):
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> no… as soon as I put LED on the nice 13.3 dell it was \> $1500
or you can ditch the LED, and go with a larger screen for cheaper
it’s not really apples to apples (no pun) anymore. You can find similar spec’d notbooks for a HUGE range of different prices depending on the manufacturer and/or retailer.
The new macs aren’t a bad deal in comparison, but most laptops are a waste of money (except for maybe the eeepcs and a few others). I find it odd that a machine with half the potential of a desktop machine, costs twice as much
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### Author:  [@Clean\_Baldy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Clean_Baldy)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 12:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/34 "2008-10-14T12:17:03Z")
There is no such thing as “waste aluminum” since it can be recycled infinite amounts of time without material waste.
If they have a good system in place to create bricks of aluminum to machine, as well as melt them down back into bricks…
why not? This is apple… the company that is not only growing, but seems to charge WAY too much for everything they make.
I can say “maybe” to this rumor, thinking of the variables. It’d be pretty cool to have a one-piece shell…
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### Author:  [@camarojoe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/camarojoe)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 12:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/35 "2008-10-14T12:25:02Z")
> [@Dr.Stevil](#):
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> heh, I wonder why they do that, versus just throttling down the GPU to save power? (under clocking)
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> So can they use them in parallel or is it one or the other?
One or the other.
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### Author:  [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/36 "2008-10-14T12:26:41Z")
> [@Dr.Stevil](#):
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> or you can ditch the LED, and go with a larger screen for cheaper
>
> it’s not really apples to apples (no pun) anymore. You can find similar spec’d notbooks for a HUGE range of different prices depending on the manufacturer and/or retailer.
>
> The new macs aren’t a bad deal in comparison, but most laptops are a waste of money (except for maybe the eeepcs and a few others). I find it odd that a machine with half the potential of a desktop machine, costs twice as much
it costs me a lot more to install a computer in my living room, garage, bedroom, kitchen. so I prefer to just have a laptop and a server in the basement.
and I don’t buy your “remove the LED” argument for one second… the apple has bunch new desirable features at a hard to beat price…
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### Author:  [@Clean\_Baldy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Clean_Baldy)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/37 "2008-10-14T12:27:18Z")
> **[Apple MacBook aluminum and glass super-shiny hands-on](https://www.engadget.com/gallery/apple-macbook-aluminum-and-glass-super-shiny-hands-on/)**
>
> Engadget is the original home for technology news and reviews. Since its founding in 2004, we've grown from an exhaustive source for consumer tech news to a global multimedia organization covering the intersection of technology, gaming and...
> **[Apple MacBook aluminum and glass super-shiny hands-on](https://www.engadget.com/gallery/apple-macbook-aluminum-and-glass-super-shiny-hands-on/)**
>
> Engadget is the original home for technology news and reviews. Since its founding in 2004, we've grown from an exhaustive source for consumer tech news to a global multimedia organization covering the intersection of technology, gaming and...
> **[Apple MacBook aluminum and glass super-shiny hands-on](https://www.engadget.com/gallery/apple-macbook-aluminum-and-glass-super-shiny-hands-on/)**
>
> Engadget is the original home for technology news and reviews. Since its founding in 2004, we've grown from an exhaustive source for consumer tech news to a global multimedia organization covering the intersection of technology, gaming and...
Engadget has a bunch of pictures of the macbook. I can’t tell from looking at it, but it does look very very very neat and tidy. Perhaps it was machined afterall?
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 12:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/38 "2008-10-14T12:35:13Z")
> [@Clean Baldy](#):
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> [http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-macbook-aluminum-and-glass-super-shiny-hands-on/1097186/](http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-macbook-aluminum-and-glass-super-shiny-hands-on/1097186/)
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> [http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-macbook-aluminum-and-glass-super-shiny-hands-on/1097184/](http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-macbook-aluminum-and-glass-super-shiny-hands-on/1097184/)
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> [http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-macbook-aluminum-and-glass-super-shiny-hands-on/1097183/](http://www.engadget.com/photos/apple-macbook-aluminum-and-glass-super-shiny-hands-on/1097183/)
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> Engadget has a bunch of pictures of the macbook. I can’t tell from looking at it, but it does look very very very neat and tidy. Perhaps it was machined afterall?
yeah, it is (well, at least it’s made from a brick… weather it’s an actual solid piece versus an assembled unit machined from one piece I have no idea). Check out TUAW
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 12:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/39 "2008-10-14T12:36:55Z")
> [@camarojoe](#):
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> One or the other.
boo, thats lame :tdown:
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### Author:  [@camarojoe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/camarojoe)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2008, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-this-rumor-new-macbooks-being-machined-out-of-billet-aluminum/56069/40 "2008-10-14T12:51:04Z")
> [@Dr.Stevil](#):
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> yeah, it is (well, at least it’s made from a brick… weather it’s an actual solid piece versus an assembled unit machined from one piece I have no idea). Check out TUAW
They showed images from the video at presentation. It is made from one chunk of aluminum.
> **[How the MacBooks Are Carved Out of Solid Aluminum](https://gizmodo.com/how-the-macbooks-are-carved-out-of-solid-aluminum-5063227)**
>
> Apple has confirmed their new way to make laptops in the new MacBook 2008 line-up. Previously, manufacturers-including Apple-would add layers to form a body, welding each of them to give the laptop rigidity. Now, they have changed the whole game:...
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