Foxconn to build more Apple Notebooks
MacNN reports that Hon Hai Precision Industry (aka "Foxconn Electronics") has won a new contract with Apple to produce a line of Mac notebooks. The actual notebook line in question is still unclear. MacNN notes that the company will ship about 3.2 million notebooks in 2007, of which the Apple order only makes up a part. If the name of this manufacturing company sounds familiar, it's probably because of our recent story about Foxconn reportedly winning the iPhone handset contact. Foxconn has also built has had contracts to build has had TUAW stories about having possibly having had contracts to possibly build in a theoretical way only Mac Minis, Powerbooks and iBook G4s for Apple in the past.
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Foxconn has indeed made the Mac Mini, though.
December 05 2006 at 6:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyRepeat after me:
There is no iPhone. There is no reason for Apple to enter the very competitive and cutthroat cell phone business, no matter what Kevin Rose says. I will stop spreading unsubstantiated rumours about products which have been hotly anticipated by a statistically insignificant number of people for five (or more) years.
@4, yeah! go to ifixit.com and grab one from there for goodness sake!
@5, you're kidding right?
Although this seems like good news, more apple products means a better market share.
on the bad side, more market share means that viruses and malware might start making appearances on macs too.
"has had contracts to build"
I see nowhere that this has been substantiated besides an unsupported TUAW article. Rumored to have had contracts, perhaps, but I think its time for a 3rd edit on that line.
Welcome to the Apple blogosphere, where readers actually know what Apple products have ever been put into production.
Don't mind me. I'll be over there hitting my head against the wall a few hundred times.
December 05 2006 at 1:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCan't TUAW get a pic of a MacBook Pro MoBo, or any notebook MoBo for that matter?
December 05 2006 at 1:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhy can't I get an iBook G5!?!?!?!?
December 05 2006 at 1:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyhey dane, thanks for getting it!
December 05 2006 at 1:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyyeah, didn't think they ever shoe-horned at G5 into a notebook (hence the move to Intel).
December 05 2006 at 1:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replypowerbook and ibook g5's eh?
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