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The 'Brick' is...
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — ... This isn't entirely new.  Steve Jobs has always had a fondness for having his own plant to produce computers.  In 1990, he built a totally automated plant in Fremont California ( ...

Rumor: 9to5Mac says The Brick is 'a block of aluminum'
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... there are some advantages in a milling/CNC approach to making the laptops. Using a solid block for the shell could avoid seams and screws, and the elimination of human hands in the assembly process would reduce cost and defects. A light, rugged MacBook would certainly be appealing... and might be the perfect laptop to appear in the Iron Man sequel. Apple's industrial designers could pull it off, and certainly the legacy of the all-magnesium NeXT Cube (see Fortune's story about the Cube's manufacturing) hasn't been forgotten by Apple's management ...

Rumor Says That Apple Brick Will Be A Metal Brick
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... It has a certain sci-fi ring, but the advantages are real: No screws, no thin, bendy sheets of metal and great heat dissipation (a real problem with current notebooks). And Steve Jobs has previous: He built a hi-tech factory full of lasers and robots to manufacture the NeXT computer. ...

Brick -- Apple's Golden Ticket?
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — ... - Carving out of aluminum eliminates the need to bend the metal and create weak spots or microfolds and rifts. - There are no seams in the final product, so it is smooth. - Screws aren’t needed to tie the products together. - The shell is one piece of metal so it is super light, super strong and super cheap. - You can be a whole lot more creative with the design if you don't have to machine it. A trip down memory lane reveals that Steve Jobs once created, what CNN Money called " The Ultimate Computer Factory ," to build Next workstations. The fully automated factory, ...