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by nailer 5885 days ago
Apple seems to have been the first to use a unibody metal design specifically for a laptop. Since Apple did it first, HP could be considered to have copied by some people.

Then again Porsche Design did the same thing for mobile phones years before Apple or any other consumer electronics company did - my personal opinion is that Porsche did most of the innovation in this area.
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jacquesm 5885 days ago
> Since Apple did it first

Errm, not really, there was at least the Panasonic toughbook and lots of other ruggedized laptops before it.

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nailer 5885 days ago
I always thought the Toughbook (or at least the ones I've seen) was a multi-panel ruggedized laptop, rather than single chunk of metal.
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jacquesm 5885 days ago
It's been a long time since I last saw one, I don't even know if they're still being made, but I recall the case being milled out of a chunk of magnesium alloy.

Maybe I'm wrong though, as I said it's long ago.

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mbenjaminsmith 5884 days ago
They're made out of magnesium and are multi-part. The trick is they make the internals somewhat waterproof (at least water passes through quickly) and suspend the entire mobo on rubber shocks.
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