If it's not aluminum, I may still wind up getting a Macbook Pro.

Don't make me Colorware this thing, Apple!
Let's do the nano colors this time around!
:)
-The Doc

I may still get this, depending on how it looks in real life. I hated the 4G iPod Nano as it appeared on the monitor, but I was sold once I held it in my hand in real life.

didn't anyone try to play with gamma correction on the invite to see the laptop? with gamma=2 it's clearly visible. it's hard to tell if it's white plastic of aluminum but I'd bet the later.

So I think the best thing that apple can do is that when they design this you have the top cover part that is the keyboard panel be one solid piece of metal. Then you have the entire 1/3 or 1/4 of the bottom of the laptop be the battery that come come off so the bottom of the case allow for another plate either plastic or metal to slide in or out easily using some sort of tounge and groove method or design on the plates. This would allow easy access to pull out the entire guts of the macbook on a simple tray that when you pull it out gives your access easily for both end user and techs alike to replace hard drive, memory, video card, media drive, or other wireless cards that might be available. You then slide back in the logic board plate. connect the video connectors then place down a second plate over the cable bundles that come from the LCD screen covering those up before you put the battery back in. Place 3 screws on the front and back of the plates that hold down both the plates now.

Then you put the battery in. and on the sides you screw in 3 more screws on each side to hold the tray in place that has the logic board. This design would be a dream come true for finally a truly easy to repair laptop system. Also with the size of the battery pack you could have that takes up the entire 1/3 to 1/4 of the back part of a macbook pro or macbook you could easily see a 5 to 7 hour life then hopefully.

Oh i forgot to say that when you have the plate out with the logic board you get access to the underside of the top caseing where the keyboard is so if you have to replace the keyboard you just unconnect it from the logic board cover plate and then pull out the logic board plate and then flip it over and unscrew the keyboard and easily access replacement.

i hate the black and will be very upset if this is the only color option

it would be fun if it came in colors, a la ipod nano, I am not a fan of the black it pisses me off for some reason, it's just not as graceful with the black (esp the black keyboard).

What are the sources that the Macbook will be 50% plastic and 50% alu? Is it pure speculation?

Hang on... so what you're telling us, after all this hype and craziness over the "Brick" being a manufacturing process to make a laptop out of a solid piece of aluminium, Apple are going to have a two-tone plastic/aluminium laptop....

Surely the two concepts are mutually exclusive. Either they're going to have aluminium laptops or they're not. If they're going to include plastic in the design as well as aluminium, then this "brick" stuff is what exactly?

I will laugh my ass of if the new, cheaper macbooks will be more beautiful than the pros. All the "Apple has to be expensive and elite like" people would cry like little babies. Hope it will come this way.

naaah...i hope this won't happen. it's just too ugly, and appears inconsistent. two colors...it will look like any windows laptop...

Yeah, it wont`t happen, nevertheless it would be funny. I am just bored with the all silver aluminum look. Time to move along. Though black alu or Ipod Nano colors alu would rock.

I personally like the black and aluminum of my 2008 iMac. I think they could very tastefully produce laptops on the same color scheme. But I also think they would be very successful putting color into the low-end MacBooks, ala iPod Nano. I think consumers like color personalization. I think Apple showed they agree with the recent nano colors.

No matter what they introduce, I'm sure it's going to be beautiful, and a nice update from current MacBooks.

I just want the trackpad to be a glass display. There is so much possibility for innovation there.

It seems more likely Apple will employ plastic....

I would love for the back to be like the iPhone. Black, glossy and with the apple Logo...

that doesn't sound too enticing, but I'm apple will make me want one. They're very good at that.

Please let the new MacBook be alu, i hate plastic -.-'

13" MBP? Is there demand for this sort of thing? If you look at the top end of the MB with 13" it's similar to the bottom end of the MBP, sans the graphic card boost. The price is going to come in around the MBA. It just reeks of collision between the lines, no?

Now if they are going to move the MB further -down- the performance scale, with this rumoured $899 MB or whatever. By that I mean move the whole MB line down (relatively I mean, just have the specs stand still while the MBP moves up) then maybe that opens the room. But having a smaller package at the price range is still banging into the MBA.

So this is what the article says: "Boingboing (and others) did some analysis on the aluminum laptop in the Apple event invitation and concluded it was a regular MacBook. It wasn't. MacBooks will have black (perhaps other colors - we have only heard black) plastic outer shells."

All the evidence they have to prove that the invitation doesn't show a regular MacBook is "It wasn't?" And they just make the statement about the plastic with no sources or convincing evidence whatsoever? Hmm...

(Personally I think another plastic MacBook could never be as beautiful as an aluminum one, especially not if it were two-tone like pretty much every cheap Windows laptop. I really hope this article is as much bs as I think it is.)

I love this site!

So this 'Brick' is now just an internal chassis?
You mean the kind every laptop has had, ever?

Why would this need to be carved out of a solid lump of aluminium?
By "3D lasers"!
Nice, 9to5mac, very nice.

I seem to remember this site stating that it was staking its reputation on the accuracy of this Brick rumour.
Well, 9to5mac, you sure are! We'll know on Tues.

Plastic shells??? After all this talk about carving the shell out of a solid brick of aluminum???

Where the heck is your source on this two-toned, two-material plastic/Al Macbook?

Wow, I find myself typing on this very computer... Black outer shell, aluminum case with black keys. Oh wait, no, it's a 3 year old HP.

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