I don't know if this has ever been mentioned before...

[jihad the movie]

But wen I run a System Profiler on my mac, my Apple branded mouse comes up as "Logitech" for vendor on mg G5. The Pro Keyboard comes up as Mitsumi Electric for the vendor name as well. I just thought that was odd.

[haiggy]

Hmmmm.... maybe Apple doesn't produce them? :confused:

[realityisterror]

never noticed that before...
but i like logitech, so that's good. now i have two products from them :)

reality

[blue&whiteman]

But wen I run a System Profiler on my mac, my Apple branded mouse comes up as "Logitech" for vendor on mg G5. The Pro Keyboard comes up as Mitsumi Electric for the vendor name as well. I just thought that was odd.

all apple really makes on their own are the casings around their products. all the parts inside everything they make are made by someone else. same as dell, gateway, compaq etc.

[Sparky's]

I also was confused when after purchasing a LaCie DVD-R external firewire drive that the "system profiler" said it was a Pioneer drive. Found out that LaCie uses Pioneer guts for their drives. Kinda like the Saturn cars, all that hype back in the early '90s about an American Car built by an American Company, HA most of the parts are manufactured overseas and just "assembled" in America.

[Bear]

all apple really makes on their own are the casings around their products. all the parts inside everything they make are made by someone else. same as dell, gateway, compaq etc.Actually, I doubt Apple even makes the cases. They design the cases. They design the custom parts of the computer. Then they have other companies doing the manufacturing and most of the assembly work. I think Apple might do some of the custom order upgrades themselves.

[Abstract]

All electronics companies do this.

This is why I never really bought the "Apple hardware is better" argument from Mac-drones. They buy their HD's, CD burners, LCDs, casing, etc, from the same people that other companies like HP and Gateway do. If one part fails, it isn't because Apple is superior (even though they are :p). Its because the part cocked up, not Bill Gates, Windows, or anything else you can blame.

[Krizoitz]

All electronics companies do this.

This is why I never really bought the "Apple hardware is better" argument from Mac-drones. They buy their HD's, CD burners, LCDs, casing, etc, from the same people that other companies like HP and Gateway do. If one part fails, it isn't because Apple is superior (even though they are :p). Its because the part cocked up, not Bill Gates, Windows, or anything else you can blame.

Except Apple doesn't just slap the cheapest hardware together in a slap-dash way. They design the systems to work well together and use industry standard parts, but high-quality ones, not the cheapest on the market. Sure they don't manufacture it all, but they do use better manufacturing and parts then say oh DuLL.