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Re:Apple hardware design coincidence? by blackguardx on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @11:56AM (#2359924)
Machining doesn't work that way. The groove in the laptop is done with a round nosed end-mill. It makes the rounded profile and creates lots of chips. Those chips are then melted down and made into something else by some other company.
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Re:Apple hardware design coincidence? by tesseract on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @01:27PM (#2360349)
Machining still doesn't work that way, but on the Air the cutout goes all the way through so there is no need for a round nose mill specifically.
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Re:Apple hardware design coincidence? by blackguardx on Friday March 25, 2011 @08:33PM (#2370947)
Sorry I haven't seen one. I only have an aluminum macbook
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