“The battery life of up to eight hours makes it a seriously capable machine out on the road and away from your desk… One of the big advantages of Apple’s successes over the last few years (and in 2008 in particular) is the fact that the company’s engineers have the time and money to invest in developing serious technology. Apple proudly posted videos of the unibody aluminium manufacturing process it developed for the latest MacBook series last October, and showed another process movie during Schiller’s keynote the other day. It’s now available online. This has a lot to do with a more efficient, space-saving flat shape [of the built-in battery] as compared to the usual series of cylinders. It also comes from the dispensing of a user-openable compartment and other space saving features, plus efficiencies in the rest of the laptop,” Webster reports.
“Apple seriously upset the general public years back when the firm refused to put battery compartments on iPods. Then it left it off the iPhone. This was interpreted, especially by tinkerers, as an ‘up yours’ gesture rather than as a space, cost-saving and aesthetic exercise. Despite the complaints, heartfelt at times, the success of these two device categories belies the perception that Apple was wrong on this count,” Webster reports. “So you may have to admit that Apple has been right on this.”
Webster reports, “The new 17-inch MBP is the thinnest and lightest laptop on the market, says Apple, and the kind of rigidity and strength engendered by the aluminium unibody case Apple designed will be most welcome for those out on the road…. And that delicious big, shiny screen…”
More in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "James W." for the heads up.]
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