sony makes laptops using carbon fiber - http://store.sony.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisp...

same ballpark pricing ~2000 USD. Is unibody aluminium that commonplace a manufacturing process that it is much more feasible than carbon fiber ?

Oh nice. That looks like a pretty slick laptop. I like the lightpeak integration w/ external video card & BluRay support.

I always thought that carbon fiber weaving was not widespread and thus that was one factor in the high cost of carbon fiber. For example when Lexus was building their LFA car they also built their own 3D CF loom. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry9uiP2I6kQ

Typically though you don't custom-weave CF into the product shape; you buy CF cloth and lay it into a mold. I think, though, that a lot of composite layup is still done by hand since it is not as easy to automate as a lot of metalworking processes are.