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There’s something about the 2019/2023 Mac Pro I never hear get brought up in these threads. Yeah yeah they suck and are pointless and your Thinkpad dug out of
by pram 3y ago
There’s something about the 2019/2023 Mac Pro I never hear get brought up in these threads.
Yeah yeah they suck and are pointless and your Thinkpad dug out of a Goodwill dumpster running Arch Linux is 100x more powerful etc etc
But: they’re assembled in Austin, TX. Perhaps one of the only things Apple makes that’s assembled domestically? Are we sure the continued existence of the Mac Pro isn’t the result of some kind of tax scheme or trade tariff boondoggle?
- the_other 3y agoAnd maybe also a trickle-down/tracer bullet for on-shoring? If the world goes further mad and US-Chinese relations sour, and/or if the institutional racism of globalisation is finally dismantled, such that manufacturing costs a similar amount the world over, Apple already have a functioning PoC for US assembly.
- philwelch 3y agoApple is just going to move manufacturing from China to India; in fact, they already are. Mac Pro can be assembled in the US because it’s a low volume high margin product. Manufacturing MacBooks, let alone iPhones in the US would still need to be bootstrapped from scratch, because the scale of Mac Pro production relative to the scale of other Apple production basically is scratch.