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When looking at the edges, it looks very thick though, no? That doesn’t look like wrapped around sheet metal to me, unless that’s border where some metal is pulled inwards like when making a soda can.



I'm not saying it is, it's a response to this, which I should have quoted:

> having a hollow tube-like structure made from metal would be very wasteful because you would have to mill out the entire core (unless it’s cast metal?)

Basically, I'm saying those aren't the only options


Ah ok, yes, not every hollow metal part has to be milled from a block. I was saying that because the original comment mentioned the iMac, which is milled from solid material AFAIK. I probably should have made that more clear.




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