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The Aluminum Mac Brick...is it Green?

Posted on October 14, 2008

So Apple has once again managed to get the world all excited about some fancy new device...though I don't think anyone's quite certain exactly why this is so cool. In essence, Apple will be carving their new MacBooks out of one solid block of aluminum, certainly not as green as some of the bamboo cases we've seen. The advantages, they say, are unsurpassed style and ultra-light weight. But I'm only concerned about one thing...is this thing going to save the earth...or destroy it?Well, it turns out it's a little of both. The new process slices the computer case out of a 2.5 lb brick of highly pr...

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