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iMac 5K - assembled in USA

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mac.rumors

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My second iMac 5k ordered 24th December Shipped from San Jose, CA and has a serial number starting with D, which according to a serial number lookup site is assembled in the USA.

Very happy about this and wanted to let everyone know!
 
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mac.rumors said:
My second iMac 5k ordered 24th December Shipped from San Jose, CA and has a serial number starting with D, which according to a serial number lookup site is assembled in the USA.

Very happy about this and wanted to let everyone know!
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Um, ok. I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico.
 
Ulenspiegel

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mac.rumors said:
My second iMac 5k ordered 24th December Shipped from San Jose, CA and has a serial number starting with D, which according to a serial number lookup site is assembled in the USA.

Very happy about this and wanted to let everyone know!
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I can understand your happiness!
Finally!
This is a very good news!
(It must be the same feeling when I checked my Sony Full HD TV set and it was made in Spain).
Enjoy it!
 
Doga

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A week ago I took delivery of my new CTO iMac, a non-retina 27" 3.4 ghz i5 / GTX 775M with a 512 gig SSD - it too has a serial number starting with D, and was assembled in the U.S. :cool:
 
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mac.rumors said:
My second iMac 5k ordered 24th December Shipped from San Jose, CA and has a serial number starting with D, which according to a serial number lookup site is assembled in the USA.

Very happy about this and wanted to let everyone know!
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The factory is all robotics. It doesn't create any American assembly line jobs of note for working class people.
 
maflynn

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Ulenspiegel said:
Nevertheless it is a first step to see again on products "Made in USA"/"Assembled in USA".
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For what benefit? I mean if its largely an automated factory, who cares if its made in the US or elsewhere. Personally, I don't care either way as long as its a quality product.
 
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maflynn said:
For what benefit? I mean if its largely an automated factory, who cares if its made in the US or elsewhere. Personally, I don't care either way as long as its a quality product.
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First of all, even if it is an automated factory Americans work there.
You don't care?

a). http://www.macworld.com/article/286...phone-factory-but-is-it-all-apples-fault.html
b). The QC of Apple products is no way the same as it used to be (and this is just one example that is a direct consequence of point a). (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1831979/)
 
maflynn

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Apple's QC issues are in no direct relation to where its made. I'm also not worked up where things are made.
 
mr.steevo

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Ulenspiegel said:
First of all, even if it is an automated factory Americans work there.
You don't care?

a). http://www.macworld.com/article/286...phone-factory-but-is-it-all-apples-fault.html
b). The QC of Apple products is no way the same as it used to be (and this is just one example that is a direct consequence of point a). (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1831979/)
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I didn't know the United States was the only country that didn't have labour violations.

And to be on topic my refurb 2012 i5 Mac Mini serial starts with a D.
 
Ulenspiegel

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maflynn said:
Apple's QC issues are in no direct relation to where its made. I'm also not worked up where things are made.
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The quality issues are very much related to where a product is made. Amongst others the BBC Documentry insinuated it as well.
I don't think the robots making an iMac will fall asleep paying less and less attention to quality.
 
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