Comment by jasoneckert
12 hours ago
Thanks for this interesting post - I've been showing it to co-workers to get their reactions, which was incredibly entertaining for me!
Co-worker 1: Interesting. I wonder if that voids the warranty. It's Apple you know.
Co-worker 2: May Jobs have mercy on their soul...
Co-worker 3: Not a bad idea. But not sure if that would cause problems with structural integrity of the laptop, like if you drop it or something.
Co-worker 4: The only downside I see is that you can no longer say "Hey, that's a sharp-looking laptop!"
It's a work laptop - I'm surprised none of the coworkers said "you'll get in trouble when you return it".
I don't know WHY... But corporate bureaucracies have logic of their own.
Well, it's property of his workplace, and they're usually resold when the employee gets a new one. And it's not exactly mint any more, is it.
> they're usually resold when the employee gets a new one
Are they? Everywhere I've worked they get shoved into a storage closet and ignored for another 5-7 years
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Idk if it's common anymore, but some companies rent equipment rather than purchase it. So they'd have to return everything back to the rental company, who is expecting normal wear and tear, not intentional "customization."
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Co-worker 4 is the one I want to have a beer with.
i’ll take 3. we can be boring together
I strongly suspect 3 is correct - removing material from the corners might weaken the structure.
I would use a CNC machine to round them more precisely and uniformly though.
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I have just the opposite reaction.
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Steer clear from co-worker 1..
I'd be looking for another job altogether.
Really? Co-worker 4 is just repeating a pun. Using "sharpe" to mix the meanings of "good looking" and "literally sharpe" is a well known joke. Almost a dad-joke, a joke that's been done so many times that everyone recognizes when it's there to be done, but the person who actually does it out loud will annoy people with their predictability.
1 and 3 are way more creative.
I’d suggest if you are going to do this to your MacBooks to get the silver one. The silver one is actually aluminum and no one would notice.
I’d actually be interested to see it on a black one. It might look like “brassing” on an old, well used camera.
Whilst I like that it increases the “tooliness” of the Mac it’s not of me I think.
I like mine pristine. ”There are many like it but this one is mine”, yada, yada.
“Many like it there are. Mine this one is”, Yoda, Yoda.
Worn anodizing on aluminium doesn't look anywhere as good as brass under lacquer.
They’re all actually aluminum, anodized to the color you choose. The silver one is the only one not anodized.
Filing off the anodized layer is indeed bound to look awful.
Not to well actually your well actually but they’re all anodized to prevent corrosion and scratches (the oxide layer is harder than the underlying aluminum) - the silver one is just undyed.
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What tools are needed to redo the anodized color? Is it doable at home?
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It's nice your co-workers are being blunt with you.
It seems he has a well-rounded selection of coworkers.
> The only downside I see is that you can no longer say "Hey, that's a sharp-looking laptop!"
When this line of MacBooks first came out in 2021 and I bought one (I desperately needed an upgrade), I was joking that it's top-notch hardware.
I am actually encouraged to try this now. Gotta check if they allow it. Sharp edges are really annoying on this machine.
Luckily I use it like a desktop 95percent of the time.
The slight groove that was there on the middle of the base which allowed you to stick your finger to open the top had sharp corners that poked my wrists and i filed them both off on the first, and only, macbook I used in 2014 or so m
Here’s one: scratches are officially not an argument anymore for a price discount on a second hand Mac.
Drop them like it’s hot!
Now I gotta hear these four coworkers' opinions on other things
All of the reactions are valid, including the 2nd one if that's a sarcasm.
I think the main problem is that you lose the surface anodization and might end up with a more frail surface there (surface, the structural integrity is going to suffer but not much I guess)
C1: Homo-economicus
C2: Homo-religious
C3: Homo-enginerus
C4: Homo-bros
C4 homo fraternicus?
There is some material loas but wouldn't rounded corners be way stronger on impact than sharp corners?
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