Designed (poorly) by Apple in California
1 Comment Published by Jason February 22nd, 2008 in Uncategorized. Share This“If I proposed such a design, our company would never approve it,” said one of the engineers. “When it comes to Japanese PC manufacturers, their manufacturing plants will complain or add their own technical efforts to lower cost, if a proposed structural design was insufficient. The MacBook Air gives me an impression that its manufacturing plant packaged the computer exactly as ordered by Apple.”
The guys at MacNN report the MacBook Air build inefficient, say Japanese engineers — a surprise that you could inefficiently build the smallest lightest laptop around. Wonder what the Germans will have to say…
Their complaint is Apple uses too many screws to support their parts in the laptop. Im sorry, but having worked on them while yes they DO use a lot, I would rather the boards be properly supported and protected from excess stressing on the boards than for Apple to save all of 4-5 bucks on more screws…. I have seen Dells where boards cracked in half at a screw-hole from just being picked up that would have easily been avoided had more screws been used. The Japanese can bite me.