Intel May Have Leaked New MacBook Pro Design

[someguynamedmatt]

Oh my god! That picture changes everything!!!
Forget everything you thought you knew! Look at that thing!!!

 

[joelmartinez]

That is the most beautiful macbook pro I have ever seen, seriously

the thing is they all look the same

 

[joelmartinez]

get a purple cover thouugh

 

[Guest]

Get rid of the hard drive, add flash ram and liquid metal to the chassis. Stir in the new cooler Intel processor and an ATI 6850 mobility processor. Add state of the art structural and cooler design and space savings from the removed hard drive and you get a new Mac Book Pro. Upgraded Battery tech could contribute to size reduction as well as the above items. Better internal airflow will be due to the more custom nature of the chassis that is a function of the more dispersed flash ram instead of a more modular hard drive. There is a reason that Apple only puts out new models every few years. A complete revamp requires updated tech to justify the design effort added to the layout. It would make sense for Apple to go all out on this node since Intel has really upped the bar in performance per watt.

 

[coleam45]

Eh...my guess is just a render. It doesn't look polished enough to be an actual product. That could just be the image quality though.

 

[bayouboy]

[citation][nom]shoelessinsight[/nom]This is correct, but I would like to add that copper weighs more than aluminum. Even the most expensive heat sinks are likely to use aluminum fins in order to cut down on the weight.[/citation]

Actually, this isn't true at all. Yes, copper weighs more than aluminum per unit of volume, but far less copper is needed to transfer the same amount of heat. The specific heat of copper is 386 J/g and aluminum is 900 J/g. This means per unit mass, copper is better than aluminum at transferring heat, and its higher thermal conductivity puts it ahead of the race every time.

However, hybrid coolers loose a significant amount of thermal conductivity at the copper/aluminum bridge. That is because the bridges are simply soldered and not welded. Also the difference thermal conductivities of the metals reduces the efficiency of the heat bridge. The only method available to weld copper to aluminum is through explosive welding.

Copper is used exclusively in high TDP applications as a hybrid heatsink would weigh more and take up more space to accomplish the exact same.

Aluminum is good because it is far cheaper than copper, that's it.