Wasn't Apple the ones who said they'd do no evil...no, thats right it was other guys in the white hats. It's all them companies engaged in becoming BIG Brothers. Single just one out and another robo-Corp. will pop-in in it's place.
Agreed, poor assembly is unfortunately a cost of doing business in China today.
But...one poorly assembled unit (yet still working?) doesn't say anything. Manufacturing QA is mostly a numbers game, it would be much more informative if ten, or better yet, one hundred units were compared to get a more accurate picture of build quality. IF you want to compare across computer companies pull 100 from each brand then we will have some real data to analyze, compare, and contrast.
BTW: I found the bit about too much thermal grease having potential "future" heating issues interesting... the whole point of thermal grease to to spread/conduct the heat from a CPU to the heatsink.. I don't see how too much of it could possibly be an issue...unless of course they got their hands full of it while doing the dis-assembly, I'd be pissed too!
But... the fact remains that MACs are more expensive than other PCs with very similar hardware... I guess some folks are willing to pay more for "looks" and OS X over Windows...not me.
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Wasn't Apple the ones who said they'd do no evil...no, thats right it was other guys in the white hats. It's all them companies engaged in becoming BIG Brothers. Single just one out and another robo-Corp. will pop-in in it's place.
Agreed, poor assembly is unfortunately a cost of doing business in China today. But...one poorly assembled unit (yet still working?) doesn't say anything. Manufacturing QA is mostly a numbers game, it would be much more informative if ten, or better yet, one hundred units were compared to get a more accurate picture of build quality. IF you want to compare across computer companies pull 100 from each brand then we will have some real data to analyze, compare, and contrast. BTW: I found the bit about too much thermal grease having potential "future" heating issues interesting... the whole point of thermal grease to to spread/conduct the heat from a CPU to the heatsink .. I don't see how too much of it could possibly be an issue...unless of course they got their hands full of it while doing the dis-assembly, I'd be pissed too!
But... the fact remains that MACs are more expensive than other PCs with very similar hardware... I guess some folks are willing to pay more for "looks" and OS X over Windows...not me.