Which Macs are made in the USA?

[lurk]

We went through this on your last thread. All of the components in those PCs are manufactured in Asia none of them come from the US since we have long abandoned the manufacture of consumer PC components here. (There are still firms who do that sort of thing but they concentrate on specialized low volume applications, as soon as you want volume Asia wins.)

So your union employee at union PC will take the Malaysian motherboard out the the box and install it into a Chinese case and then plug in the Korean memory and a Taiwanese video card. In an assembly line sort of situation that will account for about 5 minutes of labor. 45 minutes of labour if you did it yourself after ordering all that stuff from Tiger Direct.

So if you look at your $500 PC about $5 of that value/expence is derived from American Union labor. That is a WHOPPING 1%!!!

That is why I see it as so disingenuous. It is about the as buying at Yugo(*) and claiming that it was an american UnionCar because of the guy who put the floor mats in it.

Does that make more sense? Regardless of whether I agree with what you are trying to do, it is just infuriating to see people waste their efforts ineffectively and then pat themselves on the back saying "well I did my part".

* I used Yugo here poetically, insert appropriate car company of your choice.

[dmetzcher]

The fact that UnionBuiltPC is, frankly, cheating the consumer by trying to trick him or her into believing that the PCs are made here (and not just assembled) is a sad, pathetic play on people's general desire to help fellow US citizens keep their jobs. Someone should drag the owner of the company out of his office and beat him with a rubber hose.

By the way, can someone point out on that Web site where it tells the consumer that the parts come from elsewhere in the world? I had to leave the site because the design made me sick to my stomach.

[fryke]

Hmm... Which Macs are still made in Switzerland? I want a Mac that's been made in Switzerland. I mean: Why should I support all those foreign countries. I want a Switzerland computer, and a Mac at that.

[lurk]

Fryke,

That would be the AlpfenMac it is not as portable as other models but I hear it has great wireless connectivity, useful in the mountainous terrain. I am sure you have seen one about somewhere, they have also played prominently in some Ricola commercials I have seen.

[fryke]

Ah yeah, that was it.