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I love a heavy pen, my hand just wants to write fast and so that extra weight helps me slow down. Steel is three times as dense as aluminum, so the same pen that weighs 16 grams in aluminum weighs...
Inside the noble. note is a ring of eighteen N52 neodymium magnets, engineered to work seamlessly with MagSafe. Designed by someone who worked with Apple's magnetic sensing systems, this is a notebook built to stay with you.
What titanium feels like in your hand.
At Apple, there are rooms stacked with sheets and blocks of metal: aluminum, steel, titanium. When I designed parts, I would visit that room, pick the metals up one by one, and bend them a little, just to...
Whats the difference between Aluminum 6K & 7K?
We machined from 6061 aluminum and anodized to protect it. It still scratched. The problem was not the ceramic skin, it was the soft metal underneath. So we changed the metal. Here is how the note ended up in 7075 aircraft aluminum, in deep black and in natural.
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Genuine leather tears at half a millimeter. Top grain doesn't. Here's the science behind why we chose the best part of the hide for our notebook cover.
Open any novel on your shelf. The paper isn't white.
About a year ago, I showed an early prototype of the note to a close friend. He's a director in the display organization at Apple. He knows everything about color, about how the eye works, how to tune a screen...
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