Quanta to Produce Apple Netbook in 2009?

[Joshua989]

Apple product?

Is this an apple product? I'm confused>

 

[Adidas Addict]

Does it occur to you that history shows that civilisations have cycles. If you study ancient history, civilisations often were dominant for several hundred years, perhaps because of trade or technology. Then, when those factors turned, the civilisation declined. No civilisation has remained dominant forever.

Either you can bury your head in the sand, or you can make an educated prediction. With the technological shift going from US/West to the Asian giants, the technological dominance is gradually shifting like sand in an hour glass. In about 100-200 years, America will be a spent force, and reduced to third world level poverty.

Moreover, there is only one reason for all this happening. Why do corporations shift manufacturing overseas, rather than retain in locally to give jobs to their communities? Greed. Money. Selfishness. Those things will never change, and so the shift of technology to the Asian countries cannot be stopped.

Let's give it 3-4 generations, and by then America will be like an Argentina. Remember, at the turn of the last century, Argentina was among the richest nations on earth. Just as companies can rise and fall, the same can happen to nations. It just takes longer because of the scale involved, but the shifts can and do, and will happen.

Pretty much spot on, good post

 

[iasky]

Nostradamus

Does it occur to you that history shows that civilisations have cycles. If you study ancient history, civilisations often were dominant for several hundred years, perhaps because of trade or technology. Then, when those factors turned, the civilisation declined. No civilisation has remained dominant forever.

Either you can bury your head in the sand, or you can make an educated prediction. With the technological shift going from US/West to the Asian giants, the technological dominance is gradually shifting like sand in an hour glass. In about 100-200 years, America will be a spent force, and reduced to third world level poverty.

Moreover, there is only one reason for all this happening. Why do corporations shift manufacturing overseas, rather than retain in locally to give jobs to their communities? Greed. Money. Selfishness. Those things will never change, and so the shift of technology to the Asian countries cannot be stopped.

Let's give it 3-4 generations, and by then America will be like an Argentina. Remember, at the turn of the last century, Argentina was among the richest nations on earth. Just as companies can rise and fall, the same can happen to nations. It just takes longer because of the scale involved, but the shifts can and do, and will happen.

Unfortunately, most of us won't be here to see if you are right, unless I can come up with that extend my life gene I have been looking for

Seriously, history does repeat itself, but it also changes with new technology, leadership and sheer genius (Einstein for example). So I wouldn't count the US out just yet. Cheap labor has slowly rotated around the globe and will soon be superseded by robotics, which will change the entire playing field. And of course there are a lot of differences between the US and Argentina, but that would spoil all the fun.

 

[iasky]

^^^^^
Did you ever see how hard it is to open anything new manufacturing-wise in the U.S.? Not only is labor cheaper in China but they don't give a rats ass about what is released into their air or water.

And all it takes is a melamine incident in the electronics industry to throw a wrench into all that cheap labor. How about cheap solder with too much lead, leachable toxins in the plastics, undetectable radioactive contamination (14C, 3H) in the manufacturing process. Cheap sometimes catches up with you.

 

[Bubba Satori]

Is this an apple product? I'm confused>

Do you mean made by Apple in America ? No. There are no Apple products, per se.

 

[thoshino]

What is Quanta? /.../ I am hoping for a laptop of better quality in the future. /../

Don't count on it. One of Quanta's current clients has on several occasions delivered Taiwan-made notebooks where none(!) of the components were attached to the chassis. Imagine shaking a christmas present, hearing a nice rattle, and then realise it wasn't a christmas present but instead your new notebook computer.
If these were made by Quanta I have no knowledge though.
In any case, this entire rumor seems rather far fetched.

 

[cogsinister]

Thats good. The MacBooks that you mentioned must be the new ones, because mine was made in China. The new MacBooks look like they are made well, hopefully the tablet or netbooks will be made the same way.

All Apples computers are made in China..........