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Given all of that, maybe part of the mechanism that makes that work also means that it can't open as wide.

I hope that's the case because if they're just deciding that we don't want it to open as wide, I've heard this complaint from a lot of people, even people who've only ever used Mac laptops.

people sitting in, let's say unergonomic positions, they just want to open the screen a little bit wider than it can.

And they just can't like, maybe it just needs another, you know, five or 10 degrees and it just doesn't have it.

So that's a, that's a potential future enhancement.

If Apple can figure out how to make the hinge still good, but give a few more degrees of opening.

Yeah, he was suggesting if you go into the Apple store and like pick up a MacBook Neo and look at the seam, like to look at an edge on and look at the seam between the bottom cover and the rest of the case that especially like in the middle of the seam where they're just clips holding it, that it's like the gap is not as even and as tight as it is on the ones that have CNC milling.

Maybe this is what the rumors were getting at.

They were saying like, oh, Apple's found a new way to make the case that is less expensive, I think.

The main body of the Neo is still machined, but this bottom one is apparently stamped to save money, and that makes it a little bit more wibbly-wobbly.

He was saying that's why they had screws on all the corners and all the edges, but then they didn't.

They have clips on the left and right side, in the middle of the left and right side.

I don't know why they just didn't put other screws there, but...

Like I said, the the regardless of what they did to save money, the construction of it, when you pick it up in the hand, it still feels very solid, which which he acknowledged.

So I think that's the main takeaway there.

But they found a way to get money out of it without seemingly sacrificing much, except for maybe like fractions of a millimeter in the shut line between the bottom and the top of the case.

Yeah.

It's amazing.

Like how you look at that as like, how could they both fit a laptop in the same case, given the massive difference in the size of logic board.

It's,