Originally Posted by sclitheroe
Not disagreeing, but I think it’s more an indication of the reality that most manufacturing has consolidated down to a few manufacturing companies, and so the variability in build quality across major brands has significantly decreased. Most laptops are actually branded products from Foxconn, Flextronics, Quanta, Asus or one of two or three other major white label manufacturers.
When you fire up your shiny Macbook, you are actually using an Asus or a Quanta. Many macheads have a hard time admitting it, but its the truth. Your Acer probably comes from the same factory, built by the same robots and people, as any given Dell, HP, Toshiba, etc.
Edit: check this quote out from wikipedia:
Quanta Computer Incorporated (TWSE: 2382) is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of notebook computers and other electronic hardware. It is the largest manufacturer of notebook computers in the world.[1] Its customers include ACER, Alienware, Apple Inc., Cisco, Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, Gericom, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Maxdata, MPC, Sharp Corporation, Siemens AG, Sony, Sun Microsystems, and Toshiba. It was founded by Barry Lam in 1988. Lam continues to head the company
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