The Aluminum acts as a heat sink...

It’s a dumb idea what you’re suggesting. Sorry, I know this isn’t what you want to hear but you need to hear it.

This is why HN shouldn’t design a laptop.

Yes please, I'm a fanboy of apple but I have metal allegy, So I can't use macbook at all.

I've used white macbook, and after changed to metal macbook I got rash on my hand, so I gave up to use it.

Thought the the idea of the metal enclosure was heat dissipation? (i.e the whole thing is a giant heatsink)

>my current MBP retina 15" is really heavy

Weight: 4.02 pounds. Did it gain weight since you bought it?

>and getting hot sometimes.

its designed to cook its internals instead of running loud fans - thats what users want, that and thin. Dont worry, both CPU and GPU will throttle around 80-100C and will not get damaged.

Uh no. The rigid case helps keep the logic board from failing. The unibody and later ones only fail in other places (screen connector, keyboard) and was a great step in reliability over the plastic MacBooks. I had a rubber-like matte black one. Btw the 17" so-called-unibody model wasn't a single metal piece and failed more than all the others.

Look into seeing what makes it run so hot. Ditch Chrome, Slack and any Electron apps and your laptop will be cool forever.

It's not running "so hot", it's just annoying. The weight problem is the one i want to get rid of. I recently got an ideapad that is partly plastic, it's not hot and it only weighs 1kg.

While having a 4 core i7 8th gen, which i cannot get into a MBA

What? Also ditch compilers, local docker containers, IDEs, ...? Install Lubuntu?

The heat has to go somewhere. If your machine is feeling hot, the heat is escaping. Trying to prevent that by using a less conductive material may not end well for your laptop.

Wouldn't it melt?

Doubt it. A lot of windows laptops are made of cheap plastic. Thinkpads for example. It’s only recently when they have switched to metal. Even MacBook used to be plastic a decade ago.

A case in point: kettles

No.

You should at least expand why.

My thoughts:

- Plastic will warp when heated.

- The metal in the MBP is probably being used as a heatsink

- It won't look good.

I don't want an MBP.

There are two contradictory things about Macers:

(1) They hate macs. They are always complaining about their computers, about how they waste time hanging around the "genius" bar. (e.g. maybe it is not smart to do!)

(2) They insist on buying macs no matter what and won't consider that you can get plastic computers, computers with good heat sinks, computers with more RAM, computers with NVIDIA graphics cards or AMD APUs, etc. if they just were willing to take their business elsewhere.

I cannot speak of other users but: 1. never visited the genius bar in 9/9 years of multiple mac ownership 2. it's the only platform where i can run 100% native windows, *nix and macos(need this for iOS development)

Lol.

Apple service isn’t as nice as it once was as they have scaled, but 8/10 times you can talk face to face to an accountable individual to resolve issues with service.

Try dealing with PC companies — it’s just a worse experience by any metric.

There are definitely downsides with respect to cost and some particular capabilities.