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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Everything Apple currently sells is manufactured in China, not Taiwan. These guys may have made some ram or an LCD panel for them at one point, but the don't build MacBooks or any other finished Apple product.
Even if they did... while the offices and company name might be the same, that doesn't mean the equipment, plants, employees, starting materials or design specifications are the same.
You'll have a hard time convincing me that a Lenovo or Mac has anything in common with an Acer or Gateway. Years of statistical data measuring hardware failures will prove otherwise.
Edit: Not being argumentative, btw. I'm just saying it's going to take more than a random quote from Wiki to get me to believe that Apple = Acer.  The Apple/Asus thing, I can believe though. Asus makes surprisingly good laptops. |
I knew you would post a comment like this, so I was ready for it (and I don’t consider it argumentative). It’s been Quanta and Asus for the Mac laptop line for a long time. Quanta has been doing the unibodies since the Macbook Air. Quanta is Taiwanese, but shifted production to China starting in 2002 or so.
And while each brand of laptops has different specs, design, etc, the fact of the matter is that they are all assembled in the same factories these days, with the same parts handling processes, manufacturing equipment, same skill level of labourers, etc. These companies don’t spin up custom factories for each brand, there’s no economy of scale in that. If you can teach a guy to load the reflow solder station with an Acer motherboard, you can bet that guy is doing the Apple board too.
This explains why, outside of overall design considerations, most machines have pretty similar reliability records. A 5% spread across the millions of machines manufactured is pretty tiny all things considered, and considering how those stats are collected across manufacturers, probably has a decent margin of error.
You can choose to believe that Acer != Apple, but its being built in the same factories, by the same machines, and the same labourers. The engineering and overall design is the only thing that sets them apart.