Designed (poorly) by Apple in California

“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…