#unibody

[zegalba]

Alexander Endrullat: Unibody, 2015. macbook pro welded shut

#Alexander Endrullat #apple #macbook #welded #unibody #art #2015

[misforgotten2]

Popular Science May 1954

#vintage illustration #illustration #1954 #1950s #1950's #automotive #unibody

[rollerman1]

#jeep #cherokee #xj #4x4 #unibody #chrysler

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

GMC Denali XT Concept, 2008. A prototype for a unibody crew-cab pick-up with a hybrid drivetrain that was presented at the Chicago Auto Show. It offered a 50% increase in combined fuel economy over comparable pickup trucks but didn’t progress beyond this prototype 

#GMC #GMC Denali XT #concept #concept pick-up #prototype #hybrid #2008 #design study #futuristic #unibody #crew cab #pick-up #General Motors

[tbkustoms]

#ford #ford f100 #f100 #unibody #uni #custom cab

[bikeface71]

#unibody #ford

[ranachilanga]

La Negra en donde siempre ha andado, en el pueblo. . #fordunibody #1962fordf100 #f100 #fordera #unibody #fordtruck #classicford #mexico https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgz_ZZGrmYp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#fordunibody #1962fordf100 #f100 #fordera #unibody #fordtruck #classicford #mexico

[ms-demeanor]

Since some people might want a Mac, I'll offer a Mac equivalent of your laptop guide from the perspective of a Mac/Linux person.

Even the cheapest Macs cost more than Windows laptops, but part of that is Apple not making anything for the low end of the tech spectrum. There is no equivalent Mac to an Intel i3 with 4 gigabytes of RAM. This makes it a lot easier to find the laptop you need.

That said, it is possible to buy the wrong Mac for you, and the wrong Mac for you is the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the Touch Bar. Get literally anything else. If it has an M2 chip in it, it's the most recent model and will serve you well for several years. Any new MacBook Air is a good pick.

(You could wait for new Macs with M3, but I wouldn't bother. If you are reading these guides the M3 isn't going to do anything you need done that a M2 couldn't.)

Macs now have integrated storage and memory, so you should be aware that whatever internal storage and RAM you get, you'll be stuck with. But if you would be willing to get a 256 gig SSD in a Windows laptop, the Mac laptop with 256 gigs of storage will be just as good, and if you'd be willing to get 8 gigs of RAM in a Windows laptop the Mac will perform slightly better with the same amount of memory.

Buy a small external hard drive and hook it up so Time Machine can make daily backups of your laptop. Turn on iCloud Drive so your documents are available anywhere you can use a web browser. And get AppleCare because it will almost certainly be a waste of money but wooooooow will you be glad it's there if you need it.

I get that you are trying to help and I am not trying to be mean to you specifically, but people shouldn't buy apple computers. That's why I didn't provide specs for them. Apple is a company that is absolutely terrible to its customers and its customers deserve better than what apple is willing to offer.

Apple charges $800 to upgrade the onboard storage from a 256GB SSD to a 2TB SSD.

A 2TB SSD costs between $75-100.

I maintain that any company that would charge you more than half the cost of a new device to install a $100 part on day one is a company making the wrong computer for you.

The point of being willing to tolerate a 256GB SSD or 8GB RAM in a Windows laptop is that you're deferring some of the cost to save money at the time of purchase so that you can spend a little bit in three years instead of having to replace the entire computer. Because, you see, many people cannot afford to pay $1000 for a computer and need to buy a computer that costs $650 and will add $200 worth of hardware at a later date.

My minimum specs recommendations for a mac would be to configure one with the max possible RAM and SSD, look at the cost, and choose to go buy three i7 windows laptops with the same storage and RAM for less than the sticker price of the macs.

So let's say you want to get a 14" Macbook pro with the lowest-level processor. That's $2000. Now let's bump that from 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD to 32GB and 2TB. That gets you to $3000. (The SSD is $200 less than on the lower model, and they'll let you put in an 8TB SSD for $1800 on this model; that's not available on the 13" because apple's product development team is entirely staffed by assholes who think you deserve a shitty computer if you can't afford to pay the cost of two 1991 Jeep Cherokee Laredos for a single laptop).

For $3000 you can get 3 Lenovo Workstation laptops with i7 processors, 32GB RAM, and a 2TB SSD.

And look, for just $200 more I could go up to 48GB RAM and get a 4TB SSD - it costs $600 to upgrade the 14" mac from a 2TB SSD to a 4TB SSD so you could still get three laptops with more ram and the same amount of storage for the cost of one macbook.

I get that some people need to use Final Cut and Logic Pro, but hoo boy they sure are charging you through the nose to use products that have become industry standard. The words "capture" and "monopoly" come to mind even though they don't quite apply here.

"Hostile" does, though, especially since Mac users end up locked into the ecosystem through software and cloud services and become uncertain how to leave it behind if they ever decide that a computer should cost less than a month's rent on a shitty studio apartment in LA.

There's a very good reason I didn't give mac advice and that's because my mac advice is "DON'T."

#sorry i swear i know you're being nice #i am incapable of being nice when talking about apple #i was a total apple fangirl until the unibody #which is the domino that started all the other companies pulling shit like soldered RAM #they said 'fuck you - users shouldn't service their own computers' and I say 'fuck apple - users shouldn't use macs' #and that has been my stance on the matter since 2012 #which was the last time i bought a macbook because i knew i'd never buy a computer that would fight me to change my own battery

[malautomat]

1OO

#ford #classic ford #ford trucks #ford f100 #ford pickup #classic truck #classic pickup #custom truck #custom pickup #custom ford #streettruck #f100 #f 100 truck #patina truck #patina pickup #ford unibody #airsuspension #airride #bagged #slammed #lowered #stance #bagged truck

[sonicenvy]

can't believe my new computer still hasn't come despite being out for delivery since 9 this morning. very annoying because I've stayed home all day waiting for it since it needs a signature for delivery, and feel like I'm wasting my time.

to double my frustration, none of my solutions thus far for figuring out how to make a clone of my old hard drive so I can add it to the new computer are working. all of my currently functioning computers are macs and this is a windows issue so that's annoying as fuck. I have two "functional" windows pc available to me but one of them no longer has a charger so I can't access it (plus I'm 99% sure that the boot issues it was having before I lost it have to do with the fact that the cmos battery is dead.) and the other has windows 8.1rt which is the most garbage version of windows ever created and therefore will not allow me to boot to anything other than the internal hard drive of the "computer". The RT lock bs on this "computer" prevents you from even accessing the bios or firmware settings. also the only programs you can use on it are programs downloaded through the windows store and the only web browser it allows you to use it INTERNET EXPLORER. so uh piece of shit "computer". tldr; neither of these windows computers will be of any help in solving my little problem.

Final addition to the frustration my 2010 iMac is now stuck in a crash/reboot/function/crash/reboot loop. the computer just randomly crashes every 5 minutes even with nothing open and idling. tech problems are just melting my brain today apparently.

additionally my dad was all like "oh yeah i saw the UPS truck entering our neighborhood 30 mins ago." which uh, so why have they not hit us yet? does this UPS truck somehow not have my package. grrrr

these i know are obviously the most first world problems imaginable but god am I irked.

#personal bs #computer problems have been haunting me all fucking summer i hate it here #thank you to my 2013 macbook air for being the only computer to give me ZERO issues this summer. you're a rock baby! #the other 5 of you losers (mb pro 2012 mb unibody 2009 acer aspire v imac 2010 and latitude e6330) you all suck go to jail stop costing me #also love how the ups website literally won't load the tracker information but apparently gives it to newegg

[ladhanimetalblog]

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#Titanium Ball Valve #Titanium Ball Valve Manufacturers #Titanium One Piece Ball Valve #Titanium Two Piece Ball Valve #Titanium Three Piece Ball Valve #Titanium Top Entry Ball Valve #Titanium Orbit Ball Valve #Titanium Jacketed Ball Valve #Titanium Unibody Ball Valve

[speaking-impartially]

she looks like absolute garbage right now, but the internals are perfect. like I literally just want to not stop driving this car ever.

#my other one runs even better #unfortunately the unibody is rotted to the point where she is no longer structurally sound #love these stupid cheap-ass cars

[vintageclassiccars]

1968 Bizzarrini 5300 GT Strada.

Designed by ex-Ferrari chief engineer Giotto Bizzarrini in 1963, the Strada was launched by his company in 1964. It was similar in concept to the Iso Grifo, also designed by Bizzarrini, and even used the Grifo name while in the planning stage, as well as the welded unibody platform of the Iso Rivolta 300.

[seat-safety-switch]

Car chases aren't as great as Hollywood makes them seem. On the screen, they're fun, exciting, maybe even a little sexy. In reality, you're basically constantly looking at your water temperature gauge to see if you're going to nuke a head gasket running the engine flat out for this long. Plus, you're driving something with the approximate horsepower of half a drunk bicyclist.

Sure, you could argue I brought it on myself. Stealing that prototype turbocharger from the automotive museum, in plain sight of Mitsubishi's finest security thugs, was going to get me in hot water one way or another. I just didn't think it would elevate to the level of a literal car chase, but it turns out those hard-working grunts had watched a pretty spicy action flick on the flight over, and were ready to find out what their rental hybrid Malibu could do.

In my defence, I really wanted that turbo. And it wasn't doing anyone any good, sitting in that alarmed display case. Most car parts aren't all that exciting to look at: if anything, I was giving the three-diamond crew some free marketing. This is what was on my mind as I blew one of the rear spring shackles driving over some thankfully-abandoned playground equipment while shortcutting across a minor residential development. Don't worry: the turbo was fine, buckled into a well-loved baby seat in the back of the car.

While I made it away from Japan's finest turbocharger-producing thugs, my car was not quite as lucky. I finally slid to a stop at a community centre parking lot, the force of the handbrake turn bending the corroded unibody in such a way that the doors would no longer shut. I had to hoof it from there, a prospect which the angry guards chasing me likely considered to be "too easy" and maybe even a little pathetic. They stayed behind, pleased that they had at least immobilized my shitbox. Maybe they even planned to run the license plate, a prospect which I found more than a little funny because I had punched it out of an old snow shovel the morning before.

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Lancia Lambda MM Zagato Spider, 1927. The Lambda was introduced in 1922, 100 years ago, and changed the automotive world by introducing both monocoque construction with no separate chassis and independent suspension. There was also a narrow angle V4 engine. The Lambda was faster over a twisty road than anything Lancia had hitherto produced. When Italy's famous open road race, the Mille Miglia, was instituted in 1927, a trio of Lancias took the first three places overall. 

#Lancia #Lancia Lambda MM Zagato Spider #Lancia Lambda #Mille Miglia #V4 #first of its kind #monocoque construction #unibody #1922 #100 years ago #1927 #Zagato #spider #open roof #automotive history

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

1960 Dodge Polara

The all-new 1960 Dodge was shaped for the space age, from an elaborate front bumper/grille combo to high-flying, 'dynamically balanced integral fins' and 'jet-pod' tail lamps. The line-topping Polara series was offered in a full range of body styles, including hardtops, sedans, convertibles plus the dramatically-styled hardtop wagon seen here. Unibody construction - new for all 1960 Dodge models - was claimed to be 'twice as strong and twice as tight as ordinary body-on-frame construction.'

This Polara wagon is one of only 1768 nine-passenger Polara wagons built in 1960. The original price was $4,220, the highest of all Dodge models. Polara equipment included a 325 horsepower, 383 cubic-inch V8 engine, 3-speed TorqueFlite transmission and luxury-level interior trim with a 'see-through' speedometer. Options on this wagon included a gold metalflake steering wheel, padded dash and luggage rack. It was built at the Los Angeles plant, bought new in Culver City, and stayed in California until 1998.

#Dodge Polara #car #cars #mopar #moparperformance #moparnation #moparworld #dodge #Polara #station wagon