Would you be willing to pay extra money for an iMac Pro being assembled in the US?
Tim Cook has been arguing that cost is not the main reason to assemble in China.
Would you be willing to pay extra money for an iMac Pro being assembled in the US?
Tim Cook has been arguing that cost is not the main reason to assemble in China.
What is the reason, then? Certainly not high volume.
For the asked price you should get to visit the plant and see your individual machine being built as they feed you Torchy's Tacos.
Would you be willing to pay extra money for an iMac Pro being assembled in the US?
Tim Cook has been arguing that cost is not the main reason to assemble in China.
According to him, it's really mainly infrastructural reasons: availability of factories, workforce, nearby companies collaborating with each other, etc.
What it would take (according to him) is really a long-term investment: training a new generation of hundreds of thousands of factory workers, building those factories, having a network of supplier working with each other, etc. Much of North America / Europe doesn't really have that any more.
(I'm sure he doesn't mind the workers being so cheap, though.)
Ultimately PCB assembly is highly automated anyway (there's absolutely no way to do it by hand) and you can ship in complex parts like chassis from China in a ready-to-bolt in configuration.
You can, but it introduces significant latency. Shipping direct from China worldwide to customers is just simpler.
Producing what? the case? since nobody will take the base config
And there are no preorders
While it likely wasn’t designed with that in mind, I don’t see why it wouldn’t work, and it could even be preferable over the usual stand. They’re clearly using some sort of VESA mount, and having the machine upside-down would actually allow warm air to flow freely out of the vents in the back and rise upward uninhibited.Very odd the systems cooling was not designed with that orientation in mind.
Is it me or is the plant using iMacs hung upside down as some sort of information display at various stations?
I just wanna know why the Apple logo is so big and black on the Mac Pro!?!
They should be made in the most efficient way and place possible. If that happens to be the US, great, but it is ridiculous to build them in America just for show.
I don’t think it’s that complicated, Apple is just trying to avoid tariffs.<snip>
Why americans should be particularly good choice to make a Mac Pro is a mystery considering the build quality of an iPhone. Pride? Fine. Incompetence of other countries? Dream on....
This looks like a screw-driver assembly line with about 20 workers. Hardly very exciting.
you can download the full res image from apple's press page.
And yes they are 100% using upside down iMacs. lol...
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good spot @Tastannin
You want sexy and advanced, go see how chips like the Intel processors are fabricated. Complexity of a state-of-the-art fab is tens of thousands of times greater than a simple screw it together factory like this.
But its not if you live outside the US according to this article.
I wonder what the proportion of US sales vs the rest of the world for the Mac Pro will look like??
I was not not commenting on Apples motifs, but other commenters arrogance over the abilities of countries. Apples motifs is simple politics to get an advantage. That you can buy advantages by inviting the US presidents to something as trivial as the opening of a minor manufacturing plant is sad.I don’t think it’s that complicated, Apple is just trying to avoid tariffs.
I’m not sure the tariff exclusions were conditioned upon a photo-op with Tim Cook but you never knowI was not not commenting on Apples motifs, but other commenters arrogance over the abilities of countries. Apples motifs is simple politics to get an advantage. That you can buy advantages by inviting the US presidents to something as trivial as the opening of a minor manufacturing plant is sad.
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I’m not sure the tariff exclusions were conditioned upon a photo-op with Tim Cook but you never know![]()
This makes me appreciate my “trashcan” againNot impressed. Waiting for a new video like this one
I wouldn't be that surprised.