[Ti] New Ti Powerbook

[Glenn L. Austin]

on 4/21/04 5:53 PM, Justin R. Miller at incanus at codesorcery.net wrote:

> On Apr 21, 2004, at 3:04 PM, Dave Cedrone wrote:
> 
>> Why did they switch to Aluminum? Was it because of the reported
>> Airport problems with titanium or something additional?
> 
> As I understand it, the Airport problems were related mostly to the
> antennae being in the base as opposed to the top of the display as they
> are now.

In addition, I was talking to a Powerbook engineer who said that they didn't
realize that LiIon batteries were a 2.4GHz sink (ie. They *eat* 2.4GHz
radiation).

> As far as titanium is concerned, my guess is that aluminum, while still
> striking and durable, is cheaper than titanium.  Note that the weight
> has gone up, though.  I'm guessing that titanium originally was almost
> a novelty factor and now that metal laptops are kind of accepted,
> something more practical was chosen as a material.

Also, only the top and bottom cases were titanium, the majority of the case
was composite, including the frame.

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