Why is plastic deemed as an inferior material to brushed metal

>>57229837
It's too cheap.

People want to show off with something expensive.

Glass is the 2nd best material after wood ye fag

Muh retro macbook
Muh clamshell design

>>57229837
Shit for internal thermals
Shit feel
Shit for the environment

Aluminium is shit, but all the good devices use Carbon Fiber or MgAlloy anyway.
Buying anything plastic post 2010 is pure degeneracy.

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Plastic easily cracks and yellows.

>>57229837
>more scratch-resistant than any metal
Go read up about the Mohs scale, and where plastic fits in it relative to metals and glass
> light as fuck
Flimsy as fuck, needs to be thicker to have the same rigidity as metal, wastes space and resources.
> more durable than brittle glass
And less durable than metal
> can be made to feel velvety
Which is a subjective choice. I don't want a velvety fucking laptop, I want something I can wipe down easily and that doesn't hold fingerprints like a carseat holds farts.

1/10 for making me reply.

Polycarbonate is where its at. The frame of my old sgs3 was that, it was strong and light as fuck. Only weakness was scratch resistance which I couldn't give a fucking about as metal and glass also scratch.

>>57229837
Magnesium > Aluminum > Kevlar > Polycarbonate

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>>57229862
>this one cheaply-made video game console made in 1990 is proof that high quality plastics made in 2016 is just as shit

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>>57229893
> ignoring every other point ITT

How do you even remember to breathe retard?

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>>57229837
> using the memebook known for it's cracking palm rest as an example of PLASTIK STRONK

You should have been a blowjob OP.

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>>57229906
>HURR DURR UR RETARD

Trolling used to mean something.

It's not environmentally friendly doofus.

>>57229837
in laptops:
bad thermal properties. Had a plastic shell MSI laptop and there was this plastic grille outside the heatsink exhaust. Over the course of a year it would soften ever-so-slightly and would become really brittle in that area.
desktop casing:
I use plastic except for the ports in the back
phone:
I prefer plastic. Specifically, the kind of silicone that those armstrong bracelets are made of feel really pleasant to me.

>>57229887
Imagine if note 7s were magnesium

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>>57229950
>caring about the environment when you'll be dead within 100 years at most anyway

>>>/lgbt/

>>57229938
Ahh, I see now, you're mistaking fact for trolling. No wonder you're so rectally annihilated.

Come on then, let's see you address the topic. Please describe how >>57229858, >>57229862, >>57229866 and >>57229887 are wrong.

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>>57229996
Literally all those posts are either subjective "HURR PLASTIK A SHIT" or "DURR TIER LIST"

The only valid one about the SNES plastic yellowing is pretty much irrelevant because, surprise, we aren't living in 1990 anymore and making plastics with 1990 technology.

So try again.

>>57229862
>Plastic easily cracks and yellows
Yea... no.
The picture you've linked yellows because Nintendo used bromine as a flame retardant. It's not uncommon to find half an SNES has yellowed (from UV Exposure) and the other half of the shell was from a batch that didn't use bromine.

There are plenty of SNES (and to a much larger degree, SNES Jrs) that do not have any yellowing to them. This information is easily accessible online if you weren't too much of a retard to actually read and form coherent ideas.

>>57229837
Soft plastic literally smells.

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>>57230029
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Plastic cracks a whole lot, and not because it's a bad material, but because it's so easy to skimp on it with the design that it's regular practice. Open up any second-hand laptop and you'll see that all the paper-thin hooks, screw posts and clasps are the first thing to go, sometimes just from the act of opening the thing.

With that being said, magnesium-alloy laptops aren't exempt from that problem either, for the same reasons - some parts are just way too thin.

>>57229986
>not giving a shit about your children's future

Just because you're a genetic failure doesn't mean the rest of us should treat the planet like abbos or niggers.

>>57229938
Lol, "old anonymous"... How delusional is the dude who made that picture?

>>57229974
holy shit, it would've been deadly.

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>>57229857
>retro macbook
>2009-2012 model

>>57230158
Can confirm. Some plastics also degrade oddly over time. At work, we had some soft plastics from the 80s on a shelf that turned into a smelly goo and began dripping over the side a year or two ago. I was in charge of cleaning it up while standing on a ladder, which was dangerous considering the force I had to use to unstick it from everything else up there.

We couldn't find any info on it online, it was a mystery.

>>57229837
>Why is plastic deemed as an inferior material to brushed metal and glass?
Because people don't know anything about engineering plastics and assume everything is a shitty commodity plastic from China.

>>57229837
>more durable
no. plastic is not more durable than aluminum.

Plastic is a cheap material, to reduce costs and maximize profits since you'll need to buy a new tech piece if the plastic around it breaks.

Consumerism my dear /g/entlemen.

also /Thread

>>57230236
You realise there already have been deaths?

>>57229837
>Why is plastic deemed as an inferior material to brushed metal and glass?

Americans only now plastic as the cheap Chinese, toxin laced, garbage that gets dumped in our wallmarts and targets.

Nobody in this world thinks of chinese plastic as a "premium" material.

>>57231284
Kill yourself.

>>57231332
Please go away you consumerist pleb.

>>57231393
Eat shit, you clueless retard.

>>57231468
Enlighten me then.

I don't treat my devices like shit so I don't care if it's more scratch resistant or durable, I'll go for the materials that feel the best. That means metal chassis with a glass trackpad.

>>57231477
https://www.sabic-ip.com/gep/en/About/Engineering_Thermoplastics/Engineering_Thermoplastics.html

>>57229837
If Apple still made a MacBook as nice as that one or the one that came before it (non-unibody), I'd buy one tomorrow. But I don't want their bullshit thin shiny metal horseshit their selling now. I'd prefer the non-unibody one before that one, but I would even buy that one.

Why don't they make carvon fiver laptop cases?

>>57229936
The later ones didn't do that. Im using mine from 2008 now, and it still hasn't. Original palmrest and all. That cracking was common in the 2006 one, especially the ones used in schools through CFF, where they were abused as fuck.

>>57231505
pretty halal shit senpai.

Anyways, not everyone uses this kind of "high" quality plastic. most are about the cheaper the better.

>>57231706
That's not the point. Do you disregard every metal because China's addicted to potmetal like it's opium? No.

>>57229837
If it's scratched anyway, you can solve it with plastic... i mean aluminium oxide powder.

>>57229938
>old anonymous is jewish Dirty Pair shoving an airplane in a vagina

>>57230050
the european snes model dosent even get yellow.

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>>57231522
they do