[Echo Talon]

So you can cobble together a few Chinese parts for less than it costs to buy a top of the line Mac.

Where do you think they make Mac parts? BTW, most of the parts , I picked are probably made in Taiwan

[antiRepublicrat]

At the very least, in the G5 the graphics card, hard drive, memory and the DVD drive are likely candidates to be made in China. They're all industry-standard parts, and those are often made in China. Specifically, I know Pioneer (the drive used in the G5) makes a lot of its DVD drives in China.

[Golden Eagle]

Last I heard the new Mac motherboards were going to be built in the US, even if they are built somewhere in the orient I trust Apple's Q/A a lot more than I would trust whoever claims they are doing it for your vendor. You want cheap, fine, just don't try to claim it's equal or better. Cheap is cheap for a reason.