Tim Cook confirms Mac production in Austin

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Originally Posted by austinnerd

Back on topic, great to see that some production is coming back to the states. I'm old enough to actually remember Apple proudly touting their state of the art factory in Freemont in '84. iMacs being built in Freemont, Mac Pro's in Austin, it'll be interesting to see if they can manage to bring any laptop manuf. back to the States since that would represent nearly the entire Mac lineup (sans mini). iPhones and iPads are likely a very very long time off though due to volume. Then again, back in the day, Apple actually did the manufacturing themselves, today, while they are being assembled here in the States, it's still being assembled by a foreign manufacturer.

I agree. It's just old-school cool to have computer manufacturing back in the city, at least to me. Don't know how much of a real economic impact it has (this will be a pretty limited production computer), but who knows? Feels a little like the heyday of the late 90's dotcom boom here, when Dells were being manufactured here (and we had the Dell Factory Outlet, which was great) and the biggest Mac-clone manufacturer (Power Computing) was also manufacturing their computers here. Good times.