Apple once boasted that its computers were “Assembled for Apple in California”. That has long not been the case as the work is now infamously done in China.
Of course, assembly is about the easiest part of building a computer and doesn’t even begin to tell the story about how one is made.
So Macword.com endeavored to find the source of the components of MacBook Pro laptop.
It learned that while the body came from China, display came from South Korea, and the hard drive from Thailand; the Intel chip was likely made in Chandler, Az., and the RAM possibly came from Boise, Idaho.
These, btw, are the most important parts of the computer.
It further notes that while the wireless card and graphics chip were fabricated in either Europe or Asia, both were designed in California.