Apple ships its macs from china?


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so I finally bought my macbook pro, I was given a tracking number. I went to check out how long it would take and everything, I was shocked to see that my mac's coming from shanghai china? has anyone else experienced that?

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I know i just figured they would have the macs in stock ready to ship from california just surprised.

No, most of them are made-on-order.

Do you think they would pay a huge warehouse somewhere in California, just to stock computers, etc.? The cost of the employees, the lighting, the taxes, the building, etc. would be a total waste. They prefer keeping most of their computers disassembled in China and then when you select your processor and everything, they just put it in the computer and then ship it. This way they pay stocking fees only once instead of twice.

This is one of the basic concepts of industrial engineering (my field of study in fact). Even if all of this may seem obvious, a LOT of companies don't know this stuff and go bankrupt XD But yeah, it would be common sense to just buy a warehouse closer to the demand and then ship it from there. But it costs to much :p

By the way, my iMac comes from Shanghai also :p

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If you bought a base model macbook pro with nothing changed. You could have went into a store and bought one. They usually keep those in stock at the stores for in store purchases. You could have gotten your macbook pro by now. Unless its made to order in which case they assemble it in China. :p They do have assembled based models in a warehouse. But that too is in china so they wouldn't have to build and maintain a warehouse in California. Because it's cheaper in China.

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well I had to upgrade the HDD lol 5400RPMs is awful and I do alot of extracting of big files so I got a SSD upgrade =] im sad though according to my tracking number its gonna be here monday =\ five whole days! im tired of windows 7 I loved osx!

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