Live data from Hacker News

Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

apple.com

61–70 of 728 posts

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

#61

Why does the video show them assembling rackmount servers and not the Mac Mini? Is that assembly really in the US? Asking because the woman in the first shot appeared to have Chinese letters on the left side of her uniform.

How would you take a video of something that has yet to happen?

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

#63
Was it such a sin that our electronics were made in the East? Was the west truly deprived and the east really abused? It’s nearly the end of of our lifetime (+-100 years is a margin of error), so the fact for our lifetimes is that our electronics got made there.

What is the final judgement about this?

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

#64

Others need to follow. It's strange that we don't view the manufacturing of advanced electronics as a matter of national security.

The government is slowly waking up to how important chips are and how far behind domestic sources have fallen from foreign (mostly Chinese and Taiwanese) sources. That's what the 2022 CHIPS act was about.

These things just take a lot of time, there are tremendous headwinds to fight, and the US government + US media increasingly seems unable to see through projects past the next election cycle.

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

#66

Why does the video show them assembling rackmount servers and not the Mac Mini? Is that assembly really in the US? Asking because the woman in the first shot appeared to have Chinese letters on the left side of her uniform.

Interestingly, these exact letters appear to have been removed in the photo after the first two paragraphs: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/2026/02/apple-accelera...

EDIT: a screenshot from the video: https://imgur.com/a/X3t4crC

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

#68
post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can one "cut a deal" with the IRS without it ending up in legislation (i.e. tax law)?

Not without a big beautiful bribe [1] I assume [1] https://www.theverge.com/news/737757/apple-president-donald-...

Yeah, not denying the bribing. But that doesn't change tax law. It still needsto be passed by congress. Does it affect enforcement, though? maybe

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

#70

Why does the video show them assembling rackmount servers and not the Mac Mini? Is that assembly really in the US? Asking because the woman in the first shot appeared to have Chinese letters on the left side of her uniform.

Are you suggesting Apple is engaged in a massive subterfuge where they imported Black and Hispanic actors and hung a US and Texas flag on the wall in a Chinese factory as a staged photo op? Maybe the factory is really a sound stage.
Post reply on HN