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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (85421)9/25/2009 12:49:33 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 213185
 
>>If computers were still high tech in a meaningful sense, Apple wouldn't be able to contract them out to any number of Taiwanese or Mainland generic factories.<<

WLD -

Those are some pretty high tech factories over there.

The sophisticated robots that machine the cases for the MacBook Pros are certainly very high tech. My understanding is that Apple worked closely with the manufacturers to develop the technology to be able to mill those cases from aluminum billets, while recovering all the usable aluminum that gets cut away.

- Allen



To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (85421)9/25/2009 1:55:07 PM
From: OrionX  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 213185
 
"A computer in your hand is hardly a gadget.

Flat out disagree. That's a perspective from the "old folks" generation. Watch the kids with these things and it is very clear these are straight-up gadgets."

Please don't take my comments out of context. My reference was to the iPhone which is an advanced piece of computer technology and shouldn't be trivialized as a "gadget", at least not today and for the near future.


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