Apple’s Brick Rumored to be New Manufacturing Process

Supposed insider says the Brick isn't a product, but a way to make products. The rumor mills have been running at full capacity to figure out the mystery behind a new Apple product called the MacBook Brick. Over at 9to5mac an (undisclosed and unspecified) Apple insider revealed that the Brick is in fact a new manufacturing process. This new manufacturing process is based around using lasers and water-jets to carve a single block of aluminum into a MacBook chassis. The rumor is plausible, given Steve Jobs's history with innovative manufacturing techniques. In 1990 Jobs built a factory run on robots and lasers for creating NeXT machines, but the demand at the time for this process just wasn't enough to sustain it. Jobs was quoted at the time as saying, "I'm as proud of the factory as I am of the computer." So could the Brick... [read full story]