Apple Designed
The only part that Apple does any more is the designing. Everything else is made in China by contract manufacturers. Just buy an iPod or PowerBook from the Online Apple Store & you can track the package from manufacture in China, to Alaska & on to your home or business. I have not checked to see if the G5 PowerMac is made in an Apple owned & run factory. At one time all of the Macs were actually made by Apple in an Apple factory. Now Apple is just a designer & erverything else is contracted out. Even my copy of Aperture was made in Canada. I used to think that they at least produced their own software. But I guess I have been proven wrong again.
Apple at the present time only seems to be a designer, not a manufacturer. But they still consider themselves as a computer hardware manufacturer. Having Intel design the Intel PowerMac logic board seems to not make a lot of sense. The only way Apple gets the wanted features into their computer logic board designs is to do the designing themselves. The PowerMac is where the most inovation needs to be done. I would think that they will work very close with the Intel/Mac group like they once did with IBM & Motorola in the design of the PPC. Apple contracts out the manufacturing of most all of their hardware, so they would probably not show a clear difference between design & manufacturing.
The change from the present PPC Mac to the Intel Mac was said to not be finished until sometime in 2007. This will allow Apple to use a generation later Intel cpu in the PowerMac. That is what was first indicated by Apple & what I think will still happen. Many PowerMac User's need to use software that runs natively on the computer processor. For that additional reason Apple will want to stay with their original stated plans.
I could easily be wrong as I thought that Apple would stay with a FW interface for the iPod. But they want to milk the iPod for every last dollar. So my new 60 GB black iPod suffers because of it. I'm also left with a lot a FW cables for the iPod that will only work as a means to chage the battery. If they told us a story about FW being better than USB like they have told us in the past that the PPC is now was better than the Intel/AMD line of processors. The only thing they have left is that your new Mac is Apple designed. They always told us they designed better computers than anyone else. BAut maybe they were only telling us a story about that also. We have to remember that Steve Jobs is a saleman, maybe a great salesman, not a computer engineer.
Bill the TaxMan
slu said:So much for "Designed by Apple in California".
But, I suppose if it makes PowerMacs cheaper for us, then good.
But if the quality suffers or innovation slows, then bad.
Does Apple design all thier own motherboards now?
I don't want to lose features or be locked into Intel only tech though.
And this article implies that the Intel transition will be complete by 3rd quarter this year. That seems awfully optimistic to me, especially since we still don't know what is going to shake out in MWSF.
The only part that Apple does any more is the designing. Everything else is made in China by contract manufacturers. Just buy an iPod or PowerBook from the Online Apple Store & you can track the package from manufacture in China, to Alaska & on to your home or business. I have not checked to see if the G5 PowerMac is made in an Apple owned & run factory. At one time all of the Macs were actually made by Apple in an Apple factory. Now Apple is just a designer & erverything else is contracted out. Even my copy of Aperture was made in Canada. I used to think that they at least produced their own software. But I guess I have been proven wrong again.
Apple at the present time only seems to be a designer, not a manufacturer. But they still consider themselves as a computer hardware manufacturer. Having Intel design the Intel PowerMac logic board seems to not make a lot of sense. The only way Apple gets the wanted features into their computer logic board designs is to do the designing themselves. The PowerMac is where the most inovation needs to be done. I would think that they will work very close with the Intel/Mac group like they once did with IBM & Motorola in the design of the PPC. Apple contracts out the manufacturing of most all of their hardware, so they would probably not show a clear difference between design & manufacturing.
The change from the present PPC Mac to the Intel Mac was said to not be finished until sometime in 2007. This will allow Apple to use a generation later Intel cpu in the PowerMac. That is what was first indicated by Apple & what I think will still happen. Many PowerMac User's need to use software that runs natively on the computer processor. For that additional reason Apple will want to stay with their original stated plans.
I could easily be wrong as I thought that Apple would stay with a FW interface for the iPod. But they want to milk the iPod for every last dollar. So my new 60 GB black iPod suffers because of it. I'm also left with a lot a FW cables for the iPod that will only work as a means to chage the battery. If they told us a story about FW being better than USB like they have told us in the past that the PPC is now was better than the Intel/AMD line of processors. The only thing they have left is that your new Mac is Apple designed. They always told us they designed better computers than anyone else. BAut maybe they were only telling us a story about that also. We have to remember that Steve Jobs is a saleman, maybe a great salesman, not a computer engineer.
Bill the TaxMan