When and why did people start thinking of aluminum as a premium material?

When and why did people start thinking of aluminum as a premium material?

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When other laptop manufacturers thought of plastic as the standard.

Since it's discovery. It was rarer than gold so it was considered a precious metal.

Around the late 1960’s when manufacturers figured out how to cast aluminum alloy wheels with the correct characteristics of ductility and malleability without being brittle.

metal == strong for most people.

have you seen the inside of a 50s burger car?

plastic has qualities that don't apply to aluminium like cracking and snapping. The weight of metal also plays a role (though aluminium is not particularly dense)

When nigger took over the mind of man and pointed him to hyperconsumer spyware product

As said, it used to be a precious metal, even more so than gold

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Better heat dispursement than plastic.

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Reminder.

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It's lightweight and somewhat rigid.

Why no steel laptop?

This

lol cause it would feel like carrying a bucket of water.

Aluminum is expensive as fuck. Also it is a nice light grey, and is as heavy as a feather.

go back to your containment board

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Since discovery. It was the move expensive and precious metal when discovered, and for good reason.
>strong
>light
>highly resistent to oxidization

Aluminium also has a good thermal conductivity. That can be a good thing if you need to get heat out of your device, but if it gets too hot it might burn the user.

Napoleon III had a small set of aluminum dinnerware for the most honored of guests. The rest of the plebs at the state dinners had to eat off gold plates.

Of course, in the late 1800s new methods were developed to extract it from its ore, making it cheap enough for everyone to use it.

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When Apple told them it was.
They believed.

>everyone dropping knowledge bombs about aluminium
I don't think this is how OP wanted this thread to go

Machining aluminimum is a chore

And so was iron, but now both barely cost anything.

Stainless steel is much more expensive than aluminium. Also its naturally greater strength means that you need less of it, appropriate wall thickness would be so small that you wouldn't be able to produce nice finish. Even 0.5 mm of steel is too thick for a laptop frame.

>aluminium
>gets instantly covered with a layer of corundum when exposed to air
>highly resistent to oxidization
Lmao no. It's just aluminium rust prevents further rusting, as opposed to iron rust that just accelerates it. Also the cost is not based on its qualities, but on its abundance. That's why it's so cheap lately, it has the same price to strength ratio as iron.

>the retard making a point only a subset of retards care
For practical matters aluminum is highly resistent to rust and corrosion, even though saying that is chemically incorrect.

Yeah just make sure it never touches anything that contains gallium or mercury.