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Where was your MacBook Pro M5/M5 Pro/M5 Max manufactured?

AdmiralKirk

AdmiralKirk

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I’ve just taken delivery of a new MacBook Pro M5 Pro 18/20 64gb ram 2TB storage NTD, and I was really hoping it was from China and got lucky that it was.

I’ve also had good Apple products from Vietnam. My APP3 was also manufactured there.

I was worried about getting one from India because their manufacturing set ups are far newer and there have been difficulties getting them up to speed from what I’ve read online, so more chance of getting a defect I think?

So just curious where everyone else’s Macbook Pro’s were manufactured, and whether you had a good experience or whether you had any kind of manufacturing defect?
 
AdmiralKirk said:
I’ve just taken delivery of a new MacBook Pro M5 Pro 18/20 64gb ram 2TB storage NTD, and I was really hoping it was from China and got lucky that it was.

I’ve also had good Apple products from Vietnam. My APP3 was also manufactured there.

I was worried about getting one from India because their manufacturing set ups are far newer and there have been difficulties getting them up to speed from what I’ve read online, so more chance of getting a defect I think?

So just curious where everyone else’s Macbook Pro’s were manufactured, and whether you had a good experience or whether you had any kind of manufacturing defect?
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I am curious as to why that you hoped that your new MBP Pro was manufactured in China. Have there been issues with similar units produced in other countries? Congratulations on your new MBP purchase. I am envious of your configuration.
 
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Foxconn thought India can take over cantankerous China but it turns out Chinese workers adapt faster and more malleable, not to mention better supply chain.
 
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I'm thinking mine was made in Vietnam, since that's where it shipped from?

Vietnam ---> China ---> US

But...I haven't really had it long enough to discover any defects. It only arrived last week.

Now, though, I'm wondering what paces I can put it through to "test" how well it might hold up.

I do see a tiny, pinhead-sized black mark on the silver finish--I'm assuming it's a chip in the paint--but it's something I can live with and it's not glaringly obvious.
 
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28Gauge said:
I am curious as to why that you hoped that your new MBP Pro was manufactured in China. Have there been issues with similar units produced in other countries? Congratulations on your new MBP purchase. I am envious of your configuration.
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India’s factories are very new and the employees inexperienced and in need of training. Foxconn was sending over Chinese technical specialists to get them up and running and train them up, and the Chinese government veto’d their involvement on the grounds that they didn’t want Chinese specialists training their replacements in another country.

So the Indian factory objectively won’t be as good as the Chinese or Vietnamese factory yet, so I wouldn’t want a product manufactured there.
 
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Why worry about final manufacturing where most of the work is just screwing and gluing components. I would worry more about where the components like the circuit board, RAM, SSD and display were manufactured.
 
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Why worry about final manufacturing where most of the work is just screwing and gluing components. I would worry more about where the components like the circuit board, RAM, SSD and display where manufactured.
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Everything inside the machine should be coming from China and South Korea so the only real variable is the quality of the final assembly of all those parts.
 
My new 14 MBP is from Vietnam and so far no issues. I wish I noticed on my last M5 MBP; I had to return it because the space black finish was starting to come up on the bottom edges after only a couple of weeks
 
My M5 Pro 16" is from China, I'm guessing the Vietnam and Indian models ship to the US to bypass Trump's tariffs, the UK still gets our supply from China.
 
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