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What you think about when you can't sleep, lol
Posted by: KC13 on 2023-09-28 05:19:50 Last night I was trying to get to sleep and started to think about old plastic models that are now being re-released by new manufacturers. From that, my brain took a lateral leap to PowerBooks. Were the cases injection molded? If so then like the above mentioned plastic models, are the molds still laying around awaiting refurbishment and return to production? Molds were very expensive to produce hence were almost always preserved somewhere. The Amiga community now have several new production cases available. Dare we dream about new PowerBook enclosures with quality, strong plastic?
Posted by: LaPorta on 2023-09-28 06:10:40 Most molds were destroyed. The TAM molds were purposely destroyed to limit production.
Posted by: joshc on 2023-09-28 06:29:32 The cost of producing plastic moulds is high but it is factored into the final product cost. I doubt many were kept. Amiga cases are somewhat simpler than a lot of Apple's cases, probably making them easier to reproduce. As for reproducing Mac cases, doing it properly isn't cheap either - the closest we've got is MacEffects SE case which I think cost in the region of $20,000-30,000 to have those made.
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