More laptops to use metal chassis

Posted on Friday, May 21 2010 @ 21:45 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
DigiTimes heard from market sources that more and more laptops will use a metal chassis. HP for instance will use this type of chassis for over half of its new business laptops scheduled to be released in the second half of this year.
The proportion of metal chassis notebooks in the market is increasing amid demand from the business market and vendors increasing the use of metal chassis in their commercial models, according to market sources.

Over 50% of the business and commercial notebooks of Hewlett-Packard (HP), which are scheduled to launch in the second half of 2010 will use a metal chassis, according to HP.


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Re: More laptops to use metal chassis
by Anonymous on Saturday, May 22 2010 @ 3:06 CEST
Metal "talks". It speaks of durability and quality. Magnesium is high end, but certainly polished or anodized aluminum looks incredible in a notebook body.

I think we have Apple to thank for this proliferation.