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Is it true that Apple builds all their Macs/macbooks by themselves?

I have heard from various people that Macbooks are manfacutred by Apple itself. I thought all these products were assembled somewhere in China? Or does Apple buy the parts from China and build it themselves? I just want to prove that statement “PC’s parts come from different places, while Mac’s come from one company, thus Macs work better? “

As a matter of fact, Apple purchases a good number of its components from third parties, JUST like PCs, mind you. Most LCD panels (the actual panels themselves not the panel and assembly) come from a wide number of makers like NEC, AUO, and Samsung. Apple sends out their custom-designed boards to Foxconn and….well, Apple has always used other companies’ processors, graphics chips, and motherboard chipsets.Years ago, Macs used IBM PowerPC processors and the workstation Macs had ATI graphics cards. Today’s Macs come with Intel processors and motherboard chipsets and nVidia graphics chips, though Intel makes a special version of the Core2 Duo for Apple per request so they can integrate the processor better into the MacBook Pro. Now, Macs are more PC than they ever have been. The individual components get shipped en-masse to several plants in China where the components are assembled into their final products.

Keep in mind, this is the same basic process that *every other* computer consumer manufacturer uses to make computers (i.e. PCs). The exact designs, specifications, and manufacturing processes vary from company to company, model to model, brand to brand.

The question of Macs working better these days will probably become negligible, especially after Windows 7 releases. In any case, machine durability varies from model to model, even within a single company’s product line. IBM’s ThinkPads have been used in industry for years because of their durability and IBM’s Accidental Damage Protection programme (Apple does not offer accidental damage protection). PC’s reliability in the past has been a combination of poor support from component manufacturers (they have to write the drivers correctly so Windows doesn’t break, if they even write the drivers at all), computer manufacturers (each manufacturer creates a special Windows installation to install on their computers – if they muck this up with lots of crappy software or a crappy installation, the customer suffers from an unreliable computer), and Microsoft itself (Vista sucked, yes).

Apple doesn’t have to deal with so much of this. They write their own operating system for a set configuration of components. This allows them to not have to worry about unavailable drivers…though note that installed on every Mac (up until Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard) was gigabytes of printer drivers – Windows PCs can now reliably obtain drivers from Windows Update seamlessly in the background for true plug and play.

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