[TriLUG] Shopping for new laptop...

Christopher L Merrill chris at webperformance.com
Thu Jul 12 14:15:27 EDT 2007


Tim Jowers wrote:
>    The hard truth is nobody in the USA (and I'm fairly sure DELL and Gateway
> too) really makes hardware. 

By "make", do you mean manufacture? Or design?

> correct? HP,IBM,Sun do make servers. How much of the hardware technology in
> an Apple computer is actually made by Apple? DELL? Imagine if the auto
> companies simply bought a standard chassis kit from China and added their
> custom bodies and seats.

I think you would be hard-pressed to find "standard chassis kits" in either
Apple's laptops or in Thinkpads.  Do they _manufacture_ them? Don't know and
don't care.  In both cases, I _think_ you're unlikely to find the key
components in any other brands of laptops.  There most certainly are some
manufacturers who design and source laptops to others.  I don't think
Apple or Thinkpads fall into the category. Don't know about Dell, though.

C


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