[The Jinx]

Processor made by Motorola?
The screen made by Samsung or LG?
SuperDrive made by?
Harddisk made by?

I'm getting confused with Mac

Thanking in advance for your information.

Regards
sbw

[BlueCat]

Originally posted by The Jinx:
Processor made by Motorola?
The screen made by Samsung or LG?
SuperDrive made by?
Harddisk made by?

I'm getting confused with Mac

Thanking in advance for your information.

Regards
sbw

CPU - Moto
Screen - Samsung (I think)
SuperDrive - Matshita
Harddisk - Fujitsu

[anaphora68]

What are you confused about? It is no secret that apple draws some components from several manufacturers. They are always name brand though. The hard drives are always going to be fujitsu, ibm, or hitachi, the superdrives have been covered. Processor is moto. The LCDs are either samsung or LG.

Don't be so shocked, that's the PC business. Apple buys the parts from whoever has the lowest cost price at the time. Be glad you don't own a gateway, if you've ever cracked one open there are NO brand names of any kind on anything, because all of their components are off-brand.

[The Jinx]

I heard that all Display 17", 20" & 23" made by Sony

Damn those people know how to save their cost!

Thanks & regards
sbw

[spatterson]

CPU - Motorola
Screen - Who knows
SuperDrive - Matshita
Harddisk - Hitachi

[StiZeven]

Sony does not make LCD displays (they re-package OEM LCDs and sell them just like Apple and others do). The same holds for their notebooks, but sometimes (like in the XBrite) they work with the OEM to improve the technology, etc but for their own products.

Often times PC manufacturers (Apple, Dell, etc.) use different LCD makers (for the same model) anyway, so it's hard to tell which you'll get. On a Dell notebook, the LCD Manufacturer is listed on your invoice (SAMSNG, HITCHI, etc.) Apple seems to be a bit more vague in this area.

As far as the hard drive goes, again, Apple uses more than one brand (regardless of size) in their PowerBooks. So far I've seen Fujitsu and Hitachi/IBM mentioned so hopefully they aren't using Toshiba drives (which are the loudest modern notebook HDs I've ever heard).

However, if you order the 80GB 5400rpm drive, it's safe to assume that it's the Hitachi model since they are currently the only ones shipping notebook HDs with these specs (Fujitsu is readying their version right now and I am assuming it will be quieter just like their 4200rpm model is the quietest of all).

[Link]

No the 23" display is LG, 22" was LG, 20" is chi-mei, and the 17" is samsung or LG.

All of apple's current CRTs are nec/mitsubishi. (emac's display mainly)

Powerbook LCDs depend. They're almost all either samsung, LG, or sharp.

It's a mixed bowl.

Asus and ECS make apple's boards if I remember correctly, mitsumi makes their keyboards, logitech the mice, either pioneer, toshiba, panasonic or sony for the DVD drives, and either WD, maxtor, seagate, or IBM (wd), for their hard drives.

On laptops hitachi drives can get used at times