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If real, it wouldn't surprise me.

A laptop isn't special. The most special part is the motherboard, and those are a dime a dozen designs. The bios soft is the other big component, but given the right partnerships I could see a small company just paying to use one out of a dozen various vendors.

The rest of the work is part sourcing.



What about the custom plastic parts? Aren't those injection moulded? If so, how much is a mould?


A mould is anywhere from a few thousand dollars for a small, simple, high-tolerance part, to many hundreds of thousands for a large, precision, complex mould with moving tools.


Now I'm thinking about whether I could CNC a laptop case from a brick of aluminum...


isn't that what apple did/does?


It is exactly, yes.

However doing this at small scale is very difficult to do cost-effectively.




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