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The Apple enthusiastically claimed that this company is a creator of the notebook of the world early this year, but the outstanding Rumor says that Apple is still less satisfied with the weight of the system and hope to be able to achieve weight reduced to less than 3 pounds (~ 1.3 kg). Apple plans to replace aluminum with carbon fiber.

Carbon fiber is a very lightweight and thin material. The diameter is around 0005-0010 millimeters which consists mostly of carbon. The ratio of weight and strength of carbon fiber make it as the most popular choice for industry of flight, sports and racing. This material is used for part of the aircraft, bicycle frame and body of the car. However, recent days, this application is used in the computer industry that Sony and Voodoo use it make notebooks.

Apple reportedly looking for ways to adopt these materials in the water. R & D Apple said that they hope to replace the Air chasis with materials made of carbon fiber.

These changes will increase the production fee, but cut the notebook weight notebook up to 100 grams from 1,363 grams, 1,263 grams to be. A pre-production unit to demonstrate these ideas have been made, it appears all the same except the MacBook Air chasis made of carbon fiber.