> Since Apple did it first
Errm, not really, there was at least the Panasonic toughbook and lots of other ruggedized laptops before it.
I always thought the Toughbook (or at least the ones I've seen) was a multi-panel ruggedized laptop, rather than single chunk of metal.
It's been a long time since I last saw one, I don't even know if they're still being made, but I recall the case being milled out of a chunk of magnesium alloy.
Maybe I'm wrong though, as I said it's long ago.
Re:HP Updates MacBook-Imitating Envy Range
by mbenjaminsmith on Friday May 07, 2010 @09:53AM
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They're made out of magnesium and are multi-part. The trick is they make the internals somewhat waterproof (at least water passes through quickly) and suspend the entire mobo on rubber shocks.
Then again Porsche Design did the same thing for mobile phones years before Apple or any other consumer electronics company did - my personal opinion is that Porsche did most of the innovation in this area.