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Re:StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop by chx on Sunday February 12, 2023 @02:38AM (#34760756)
What about the custom plastic parts? Aren't those injection moulded? If so, how much is a mould?
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Re:StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop by komali2 on Sunday February 12, 2023 @08:58AM (#34762838)
Now I'm thinking about whether I could CNC a laptop case from a brick of aluminum...
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Re:StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop by stevehawk on Sunday February 12, 2023 @09:44AM (#34763128)
isn't that what apple did/does?
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Re:StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop by wkat4242 on Sunday February 12, 2023 @08:29PM (#34769123)
It is exactly, yes.

However doing this at small scale is very difficult to do cost-effectively.

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Re:StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop by mastax on Sunday February 12, 2023 @09:34AM (#34763058)
A mould is anywhere from a few thousand dollars for a small, simple, high-tolerance part, to many hundreds of thousands for a large, precision, complex mould with moving tools.
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