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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. |
That these companies are Taiwanese has nothing to do with place of manufacture. Foxconn opened their Chinese factory in the 1980s.
Apple is mostly manufactured by Foxconn in China along with iphones, etc. They moved manufacturing to Quanta though for a lot of their Macbooks. Sony did the same thing. That wasn't due to a quality decision though, Foxconn was just charging more money so they decided to go with the cheaper contract.