Rainer Brockerhoff ’s studied dissectionof the new MacBook ’s design — how sure intent choices intersect with the realities of components to create actual notebook — perfectly explain how they are not simply a wishlist of parts and features that magically come together . There are always compromises .
The unibody mental synthesis , along with the decisiveness to make the hard cause and battery easily accessible fundamentally determinedthe rest of the internal layout , and you weave up with motherboard that does n’t cross the duration of the notebook . So , all of the embrasure have to go on one side , and the limited space means you get three .
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Apple chose Ethernet and two USB over , say , a combo with FireWire but no Ethernet . These pattern principle apply to every notebook computer , so it ’s deserving reading if you ’ve never think about how the bucket of parts in your circuit come together . [ Rainer BrockerhoofviaDaring Fireball ]
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