Hidden features like these are awesome. Necere has put 4 screwholes in the front of the Ncase M1 that seemingly don't fit anything, although people have been unintentionally trying to fit stuff there. It looked a lot like the hole arrangement of a reservoir bracket but it didn't fit as far as I know.
Tungsten is marginally (by about 0.2 g/cm^3) denser than DU, but at least it;s available on the open market! For room-temperature materials Iridium or Osmium would top the list, but both are expensive enough to make a solid Platinum case look cheap. Iridium would probably be preferable, as it's iridescence would be aesthetically pleasing, and unlike Osmium it isn't fatally toxic.
LiMg alloys are actually becoming pretty popular for making laptop shells now somebody has worked out a functional pressure-forming process for them.I think magnesium would be neat, just be careful not to expose it to a high-temperature flame
A relevant poll would be how many people lick and fondle their cases.
So with an explosive PSU, you also get the cascaded effect of burning magnesium ? Challenge acc... No never mindI think magnesium would be neat, just be careful not to expose it to a high-temperature flame
Sony has been doing this a while, along with Lenovo and Microsoft more recently. It's certainly a viable alternative to aluminium.
Osmium is actually super-nasty in this regard, well above other heavy metals: It will oxidise, then the toxic Osmium Tetroxide will spontaneously aerosolise.
The alloy used in those laptops (and in other products like the Maglite) is mostly pure magnesium (with a few percent other metals as alloys). LiMg (which contains a significant proportion of Lithium) is slightly harder, and somewhat less dense for the same strength, but is tricky to form or machine which prevented it's use.
