Many speculated that this would be the case but this is the first official confirmation that not all Mac Pros will be manufactured in the US.
Image via MacGeneration. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. Check out 9to5Mac on YouTube for more Apple news:. Skip Navigation. Key Points. Apple will manufacture the new version of its Mac Pro desktop computer in Austin, Texas, the company announced on Monday. Most of Apple's products are assembled in China. Apple received federal product exclusions, the company confirmed on Monday, enabling it to import some Mac Pro parts without paying tariffs.
VIDEO This will bring up a table of information about your monitor; scroll down to line 17, which will offer a manufacturer number. A little judicious Google searching should match the number with a real company. My screen was probably built in South Korea, although the company also has module assembly plants in China and Poland. This raises an important question: how much information does the serial number need to encode?
We are very curious about what all the numbers mean. Perhaps they'd help us track down the exact factory or even the exact portion of the factory? Plugging that model number into Google brought me to an eBay auction that helpfully includes a photo of the hard drive, complete with legible label that informs me that the drive was made in Thailand. I'm going to go ahead and assume the one in my computer's guts has the same provenance, since my IT department would probably not appreciate my poking around inside my laptop just for curiosity or even research.
A lot of hard drive manufacturing from a slew of companies has moved to Thailand in the past few years, in one of those odd quirks of global capitalist specialization. One upshot of this is that last year's devastating floods in the country , which have affected Hitachi among other companies, have resulted in a global hard drive shortage. My computer's RAM was built by Micron Technology, a company with a high-tech name so awesomely generic it sounds like it should be the corporation that the villain runs in a early '90s techno-thriller.
Micron's original manufacturing facility is located in Boise and that may be where my RAM was manufactured. However, in the last several years the company has expanded its production to Japan and Singapore. The wireless card inside my laptop -- dubbed "AirPort Extreme" by Apple in a bit of branding that might have seemed vaguely hip in but seems embarrassing today -- is really just a run-of-the-mill Broadcom's boring, low-slung corporate headquarters are in Irvine, California, and that's where this wireless chipset was born.
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