Wow, does apple have a distribution center in China?!

[FreshPrince]

Mar 28, 2006 8:02 PM
At local FedEx facility
NARITA-SHI JP
1:30 AM
Left origin
SHANGHAI CN
1:27 AM
Picked up
SHANGHAI CN
Package received after FedEx cutoff

:shocked: <-- that's pretty cool.

 

[fbrdphreak]

What did you order? Laptops are likely assembled in China, esp since Asus I think makes them.

 

[GeneValgene]

yep...my ipod came shipped from china

 

[Dacalo]

Yes

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: Dacalo
Yes

damn, I replied in that thread too...goes to show ya....2nd hand pot smoke messes with your memory

 

[bigrash]

my mac mini was shipped from Shenzen, China. link

 

[ultimatebob]

Yep. My iPod came directly from the factory in Shanghai, China when I had it custom engraved.

 

[JS80]

what?!?!? hippie liberal apple outsources their manufacturing?!?!? NO WAY!!! IT'S ALL A FACADE.

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
What did you order? Laptops are likely assembled in China, esp since Asus I think makes them.

mac book pro.

I thought maybe it's because I bumped it up to 2GB with the 7200rpm drive that it had to be built in china or something

 

[bigrash]

Originally posted by: FreshPrince

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
What did you order? Laptops are likely assembled in China, esp since Asus I think makes them.

mac book pro.

I thought maybe it's because I bumped it up to 2GB with the 7200rpm drive that it had to be built in china or something

i believe once you customize it they assemble it in china. if you don't customize then they already have it prebuilt and ready to be sent out in the US.

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: bigrash

Originally posted by: FreshPrince

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
What did you order? Laptops are likely assembled in China, esp since Asus I think makes them.

mac book pro.

I thought maybe it's because I bumped it up to 2GB with the 7200rpm drive that it had to be built in china or something

i believe once you customize it they assemble it in china. if you don't customize then they already have it prebuilt and ready to be sent out in the US.

you may be right..because I could've easily bought it with my cdw corp. account if I didn't customize it. all the pre-built ones with generic specs can be bought rather easily already in the states. But I wanted to make sure it's loaded to the max so that rosetta will be more bearable for the graphix designer. I think the customized spec made them build it in chine...but I think that's really silly. because the loaded spec is nothing but bumped up memory, faster hard drive, and 3 year warranty. they could've easily created a different product code and sold that as a package. guess they need to learn from ibm

 

[intogamer]

All custom engraved Ipods + costom computas
are custom made in the Apple Shanghai Factory