FWIW, Quanta, the largest notebook mfg in the world...
<<...which has 500 design engineers in Taiwan, did about half of the design work for Apple Computer's G4 notebook. For Dell, Quanta's biggest single customer, Lam says, his army of engineers does about 60% to 70% of the design work on Latitude models; Dell does the remaining 30% to 40%...assembly lines mass-produce notebooks with different product specs and configurations for various customers, 24 hours a day (Dell has its own, secured floor)...>>
Source: Forbes article titled, Made In Taiwan, 4.02.01
forbes.com
If anybody would know whats in the pipeline I'd believe it would be these guys. From Quanta's Future R&D website...
quanta.com.tw
<<Our new product development plan covers:
...A Notebook PC that uses Lithium-Polymer battery:
Lithium-Polymer battery is a new generation product, the present target market is communication products, it will be used on notebook PC in 2001...>>
Dell, Quanta's biggest customer...Imagine that! ;-) |
