“Apple Inc. will take orders tomorrow for the new Mac Pro personal computer, which is being built in Texas with components made domestically as part of Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook’s $100 million Made-in-the-USA push,” Peter Burrows reports for Bloomberg. “‘We have begun manufacturing the Mac Pro in Austin,’ Cook wrote in a posting today on Twitter. ‘It’s the most powerful Mac ever.'”
“The cylindrical machine, which runs on Intel Corp.’s latest Xeon chip, will be available to order at a starting price of $2,999, Apple said,” Burrows reports. “Cook said in an interview in October that Apple is manufacturing — not just putting together — the Mac Pro’s metal parts in the U.S. ‘The difference with us is that we’re taking a bottoms-up approach,’ Cook said at the time. ‘We don’t want to just assemble the Mac Pro here, we want to make the whole thing here. This is a big deal.'”
We have begun manufacturing the Mac Pro in Austin. It’s the most powerful Mac ever. Orders start tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/Jrd1Gic3Ya
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) December 18, 2013
“Apple executive Phil Schiller said in October that more than 2,000 people in 20 states were working on the Mac Pro,” Burrows reports. “The Cupertino, California-based company released a video of the highly automated processes used to build the machine.”
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