Nice. Maybe a touch of 600 and 1200 wet/dry sandpaper (with some dish soap lubricant)?
Filing the corners off my MacBooks
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Re: Filing the corners off my MacBooks
#482Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Re: Filing the corners off my MacBooks
#483I used a macbook for almost 2 years and genuinely don't understand how people can tolerate these machines. My wrists would be cut up all the time to the point where I looked like I was self harming myself and the glary screen is entirely unsuable anywhere but a darkest basement. Not to mention the terrible keyboard. To this day I'm perplexed how macbooks have such high desirability by full time developers when they'r…
Like Mr Jobs said, “You’re holding it wrong.”
Re: Filing the corners off my MacBooks
#484I have calluses on my wrists from years of using MacBooks, so the sharp corners are no longer a problem ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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#485Maybe I'm autistic, but I loooove the sharp edges near the opening. They've become almost a nervous tick of playing with them with my fingers. I've got no idea why, but the sharp feeling is amazing.
I'm conflicted -- the author's rounded Mac looks more comfortable to use, but aesthetically it looks worse. He turned the track pad notch into an amorphous shape that looks like a mistake.
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#486This seems like a reasonable choice, but man you really need to do this with a CNC mill. The craftsmanship is not there.
That's like telling a punk to use a proper sewing machine for their jacket patches.
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#487I have literally cut my finger with a sharp edge of one of my Apple laptops. Like a paper cut. Filing the edges down is the right way to do it. However - for that price it should've be done by Apple at their factory.
I dont believe this at all
Re: Filing the corners off my MacBooks
#488I used a macbook for almost 2 years and genuinely don't understand how people can tolerate these machines. My wrists would be cut up all the time to the point where I looked like I was self harming myself and the glary screen is entirely unsuable anywhere but a darkest basement. Not to mention the terrible keyboard. To this day I'm perplexed how macbooks have such high desirability by full time developers when they'r…
Do you also have glass bones and paper skin?
Re: Filing the corners off my MacBooks
#489I can imagine the resulting texture feeling better on the skin, but I can't unsee the lack of symmetry.
Re: Filing the corners off my MacBooks
#490I have literally cut my finger with a sharp edge of one of my Apple laptops. Like a paper cut. Filing the edges down is the right way to do it. However - for that price it should've be done by Apple at their factory.
I dont believe this at all
The edges of the air intake slits are much sharper.