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Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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

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Post by ollin »

mhandley wrote: post #384
flumpcakes wrote: post #100

The woman in the pink smock-like clothing: In the video there are Chinese characters on the clothing above the front pocket area. In a picture of her later on in the news article the Chinese writing is gone. Has it been photoshopped out for the press release images?

I don't see her later on in the news article - just in the video. Did Apple remove the picture after you pointed it out?

The still photo (with 富士康科技 photoshopped out) is the second image of the "In Houston, workers assemble advanced AI servers" photo carousel https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/2026/02/apple-accelera...

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

latexr wrote: post #287
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #134

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> You can’t show real video of something which hasn’t happened yet. I have seen exactly that, thanks to AI...

You have not. If it was generated by AI, it was not real video. AI was the reason I added the word in there.

Fair point. My post was actually a joke.

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

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Post by bigyabai »

wtallis wrote: post #378
bigyabai wrote: post #323

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The M4 is from 2024, the 5800h is from 2021. You should be comparing against the M1 or M2, which was Apple's actual competitor at that performance bracket and time period.

You bought the 5800h last year , and provided last year's price paid for it. That makes the 2024 Mac mini more relevant than the models that weren't being made or sold last year. Unless you'd like to dig up what that 5800h system cost back in 2021, to put that into context against a Mac mini from back then?

The Beelink mini PC I bought MSRPs at $600, but it comes with a 500GB NVMe drive. In Apple's pricing scheme, that puts it equivalent to a $800 Mac Mini configuration.

To reiterate, this is absolutely a comparable machine to the Mac Mini in terms of performance. Maybe not your ideal configuration, but I had $300 and a limited patience for Asahi development.

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

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Post by selkin »

maxdo wrote: post #215

To all critics . This is something good going on in the country. It’s national interest protection . Together with robotics push , it has a chance , and even they do small things . Today they make body , tomorrow cpu , etc it’s a good thing going on regardless of politics

Why is it a good thing? Manufacturing jobs are horrible, ask anyone who had one.

The US built a high margins service economy.

This is two steps backwards, no step forwards sort of a deal.

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

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Post by justsid »

ijustlovemath wrote: post #410
justsid wrote: post #403

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They are not fabbing the chips there, just assembling the machines.

The price of the carried inventory is still significant; the scale they mention reaching towards is thousands per day. That's not including the backlog of components they would have onsite to ensure production uptime.

Absolutely, but they are not losing a billion+ in EUV machines with year+ lead times in a flood. It'll hurt for sure though and doesn't appear to be the smartest overall move.

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Post by HeWhoLurksLate »

shimman wrote: post #361
pear01 wrote: post #331

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And that was true when we built things too. So what point are you making? If only FDR was an engineer then maybe we would have ramped up production and taken on the Axis across two oceans. But oops he was educated as a lawyer I guess we're doomed now. Like I just don't get it. Sure Xi and some other senior leadership in China studied as an engineer. He also studied Marxism. As a part of a government delegation he stu…

These people are just trying to find an alternative narrative because the vast majority of the population have been rejecting neoliberalism for a good 30 years now. So they spin up the foreign enemy is better than us, so we need to deregulate more and not hold monopolies accountable. If we broke up Google or Amazon, suddenly we're just as bad as China!

why can't we go "wow they're getting really good, maybe we should invest harder in education and research?" That makes wayyy more sense to me

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Post by stx5 »

Saline9515 wrote: post #356
xtn wrote: post #337

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There are bad things in China, but there is no "social credit" system being used.

Yes there is. Why deny it? It's pretty public. In this french documentary, which was later aired on the parliamentary tv channel, the author films his daily life with his chinese wife, who has a social credit account, and interviews officials speaking openly about it. It's 4 years old. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma6txLM_LLs

fake news!

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

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Post by [deleted] »

bigyabai wrote: post #339
dmix wrote: post #291

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So Tim said it's not yet practical so they aren't doing it? And instead of moving what they can? The article mentions they are opening a manufacturing academy to train a future generation of Americans to build manufacturing capability.

You have to ask yourself, why does America beg Apple to onshore in the first place? Why is Apple offshoring things that can be done in the US? It doesn't matter how many manufacturing experts America trains anymore. We lost this race; China has globally-competitive manufacturing, and the US doesn't. Apple doesn't want to willingly pay for American labor today, and a decade of manufacturing graduates will probably onl…

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Post by digitalPhonix »

Saline9515 wrote: post #376
shimman wrote: post #358

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Dude come on, the US already has a social credit system. Where do you think China got the idea of credit scores from? Try getting a good loan in the US if your credit score is under 400. You're barred from having certain jobs if you don't have a good credit score. Get some new talking points, you're like 40 years out of date.

The difference with China is that the US credit score is limited to your banking activities.

Have you tried renting recently?

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

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Post by yalogin »

adamgordonbell wrote: post #84

Apple is very tied to Chinese manufacturing in a way that is hard to replicate in US. They will agree to make some high margin simple to assemble thing in the US to appease government, but if it goes as well as last time, they will stop as soon as they can. In china they were often able to iterate on designs and have custom screws and other parts made and ramped up in very short times. Something about having the whol…

They did and stopped previously? Interesting, can you please give more details?
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