My 2009 had Chinese assembly origins. Just ordered a new BTO the other day and wondering if the BTO's are still mostly assembled in China. I suppose I shall find out when I get a tracking notice, but I am curious. Thanks!
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Where are the BTO's assembled?
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That was the case with my 2009 iMac.
No progress since yesterday. Seems to me that the iMac assemblers, wherever they are, should be working on weekends to put my BTO together!
im starting to think that USA imacs have less to do with assembly/shipping concerns and something more like 1) government agencies require us assembly so they have a small plant and 2) when the plant is running idle between big orders, 3) they push individual / small orders through.
Hmmm. I wonder what the criteria for country of assembly is. Perhaps when I ordered my first iMac in 2009, they *all* were assembled in China. That, obviously, has changed if it ever were true.
Hopefully, my new iMac will start the shipping process in the next couple of days, and I'll see where it is starting its journey.
Hopefully, my new iMac will start the shipping process in the next couple of days, and I'll see where it is starting its journey.
Asia, California and Ireland. California assembled iMacs have only been shipped within the US. Ireland built iMacs only within Europe as far as I've seen.
Final assembly and a certain percentage of the assembly has to be done in the US. US made parts might qualify as part of the percentage assembled in the US.
Whatever your doubts are, some iMacs are marked as assembled in the US. And I don't believe Apple would lie about that as there are penalties for marking items incorrectly.
Oh so the sticker on the box of my Late 2013 BTO 27" iMac Core i5 with 16 GB of RAM, 512 GB SSD, and the 780M is wrong?
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Well that's weird because mine was assembled in China. I think only US citizens get a Mac assembled in USA ?
iMac's are built in China, US, and Ireland as already noted. Europeans tend to get the Ireland built( not sure if Chinese ones are mixed in) ones and US get a mix of US and China built ones.
Mine was shipped from Amsterdam
Any noticeable difference in quality ( yellow tint / HW failure rate etc.. ) between the US and Chinese Macs ?
I never had an iMac that wasn't assembled in USA (BTO or not). They are all also shipped from California and never once took step into any other foreign land. Even when I purchased my 2007 iMac, it was assembled in USA.
And no, units assembled in USA aren't free from current issues that plague the iMac like yellow tint and image retention.
And no, units assembled in USA aren't free from current issues that plague the iMac like yellow tint and image retention.
The mystery has been solved. The BTO I ordered last Friday was shipped Monday, and its point of origin was San Jose, California. FEDEX tracking indicates a 5 February delivery to me on the East Coast of the United States.