News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition. Parent comment

Re:The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition by baybal2 on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @11:52AM (#32926937)
> To keep the cost down, the top cover is aluminum-formed instead of CNCed

Forging is in no way inferior to CNC, on the contrary, a forget aluminium part should have more rigidity per unit of thickness, depending on the alloy.

I guess, you got to volumes big enough to open the mould for forging?

If you need an audio engineer, I can refer you one fellow. He worked at Apple, Harman, Asus, BBK, and is now looking to relocated from the East Bloc.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition by henearkr on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @11:19PM (#32934453)
He meant formed not forged.

The formed top covers are thick aluminium foils that are folded by machines.

They did show signs of lack of rigidity in the usage of the laptops (it was shipped with the first Framework laptops, and later replaced by CNC for this very reason).

[ Parent | on HN ]