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To: Dr. Sivana
Obviously, the processors and RAM aren't made here, but I thought the case and the mainboards are at least manufactured stateside.

Uh, if you are talking about the Mac Pros, they use workstation class Intel Xeon processors, made in the United States. The case, power supply, heat sinks, logic board, many of the chips, all US made. At least 80% of the Mac Pro is US made. The RAM may be Crucial, assembled here, but using foreign RAM chips.

82 posted on 01/04/2016 10:47:43 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue....)
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To: Swordmaker

I didn’t know that some of the Xeons are still U.S. made, that’s great! There is also a nifty video on line showing the cases and motherboards being made. These are certainly more than being “assembled” here.

Now, if they can only do a better job of keeping the processors, GPUs, and i/o up to date (need USB 3.1).

Personally, I’d rather have an updated version of the giant tower, rather than a bunch of wires sticking out, but that’s just me.

I’d also like a wallet to support such a device, but it is NOT overpriced. The Linux guy I work with would say he could build as good a machine (desktop or Mac Pro equivalent laptop) and as soon as I mentioned the proprietary high speed interface for SSD in the Mac laptop he started immediately backtracking on “things that the device doesn’t need”. I then pointed out the Porsches he drools over. “That’s different,” he responded.


91 posted on 01/05/2016 4:20:44 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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