“Your next Mac could be assembled in America. Apple is assembling at least some of the new, ultra-thin iMacs in the U.S.,” Matt Burns reports for TechCrunch.
“The backside stamp containing the serial code and FCC logo generally says ‘Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China,'” Burns reports. “But several owners of the new model quickly discovered their machines were made in the good ol’ US of A.”
Burns reports, “Apple has long made its products in the U.S. Its Elk Grove, Calif., complex opened in 1992 and retrofitted from a distribution center into a manufacturing plant in 1995. During the iMac’s heyday, it employed more than 1,500 people and pumped out computers seven days a week. The plant made its last computer in 2004 when then SVP of Worldwide Operations, Tim Cook, consolidated Apple’s manufacturing in what would be a successful move to maximize efficiency and margins. The Sacramento Business Journal noticed in September that Elk Grove’s workforce had grown 50 percent on the year. This could be the location of the iMac’s secret manufacturing base.”
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