• Inside Apple's perfectionism machine
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[url]http://mashable.com/2015/10/28/apple-phil-schiller-mac/[/url] [quote=Mashable]In retrospect, it was easy to miss — a bit of combined technology never really seen before in a laptop. Everyone missed it, even those who tore down the ultra-portable MacBook, even those who looked right at it. The little strip of black along the two back edges of the MacBook’s twin speakers could easily have been mistaken for a bit of shielding or a vibration dampener. Except, that's not what it is. Some like to call it the "Speaktenna." The black strip along the back edge of the MacBook speakers is a never-before-tried combination of speakers and antennas for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It's a fairly ingenious bit of space-saving technology that teardown artists ignored. But that's not really the story. It's about what "speaktenna" represents: the Apple way of conceiving, designing and building its products. Phil Schiller, Apple's longtime senior vice president of worldwide marketing, is waiting for me when I arrive at Building 3 at the company's Infinite Loop headquarters in Cupertino, California on an unusually warm fall day. He's wearing his trademark gray button-down shirt and, incongruously, a pair of glasses that he quickly removes. Schiller doesn't give a lot of interviews. A quick Google search tends to bring up quotes from keynotes and one lengthy chat with Daring Fireball's John Gruber. Schiller is, for most people, a cipher: A highly knowledgeable Apple spokesperson who can speak as passionately about its products as his late boss, Steve Jobs. In fact, to listen to Schiller speak is to hear echoes of the visionary leader who died in 2011. It occurs to me more than once that, perhaps, many of turns of phrase we often attributed to Jobs may have actually started with Schiller.[/quote]
Not the first time they hid an antenna somewhere, and it didn't work so great last time either.
[QUOTE=Canary;49012288]Not the first time they hid an antenna somewhere, and it didn't work so great last time either.[/QUOTE] What's wrong with this one?
this article had way too much fluff for a rather poor IMO design for an antenna
As a layman with just enough basic knowledge to make myself look stupid, couldn't the speaker vibrating fuck with the antenna?
[QUOTE=Map in a box;49012757]this article had way too much fluff for a rather poor IMO design for an antenna[/QUOTE] Not to mention poorly designed website that is very annoying to scroll through.
[QUOTE=zakedodead;49012814]As a layman with just enough basic knowledge to make myself look stupid, couldn't the speaker vibrating fuck with the antenna?[/QUOTE] Not really considering the wavelength of wifi and BT.
That's literally just the wire of the antenna built into the speaker module instead of some empty space in the hull like usual. So what this does is requiring more proprietary parts to be built and repaired. Basically the opposite of what the OP article claims.
[QUOTE=Canary;49012288]Not the first time they hid an antenna somewhere, and it didn't work so great last time either.[/QUOTE] because the iphone 4 is totally relatable to the MacBook
[QUOTE=killu4;49014666]That's literally just the wire of the antenna built into the speaker module instead of some empty space in the hull like usual. So what this does is requiring more proprietary parts to be built and repaired. Basically the opposite of what the OP article claims.[/QUOTE] Repair? A macbook? Do people actually do that?
The SSDs are pretty cool though, they're the size of a potato chip and I've been told the PCIe connector is faster than whatever the normal connector is. (SATA? I'm so out of touch with this stuff) Come to think of it, how do other ultrabooks deal with SSDs?
[QUOTE=Most wanteD;49027268]The SSDs are pretty cool though, they're the size of a potato chip and I've been told the PCIe connector is faster than whatever the normal connector is. (SATA? I'm so out of touch with this stuff) Come to think of it, how do other ultrabooks deal with SSDs?[/QUOTE] They make mSSDs which are very tiny
[QUOTE=Sableye;49027547]They make mSSDs which are very tiny[/QUOTE] Still large compared to onboard ssd. The Macbook is not designed to be repairable.
[QUOTE=Most wanteD;49027268]The SSDs are pretty cool though, they're the size of a potato chip and I've been told the PCIe connector is faster than whatever the normal connector is. (SATA? I'm so out of touch with this stuff)[/QUOTE] That would probably be a m.2 socket ssd, I think. [img]http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/20-510-039-TS?$S300W$[/img]
[QUOTE=01271;49027705]That would probably be a m.2 socket ssd, I think. [img]http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/20-510-039-TS?$S300W$[/img][/QUOTE] that still relies on SATA, a PCIe SSD has only one notch [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/tdntSYh.png[/IMG] ^that SSD in particular is from the surface pro 4 and it has a read speed of about 1,500 megabytes per second
[QUOTE=meppers;49027793]that still relies on SATA, a PCIe SSD has only one notch [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/tdntSYh.png[/IMG] ^that SSD in particular is from the surface pro 4 and it has a read speed of about 1,500 megabytes per second[/QUOTE] Yep, m.2 can rely on PCIe, SATA, or USB (I think?)
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