wglmb wrote:mrarnesen wrote:So, you have tempted me to buy an Apple iMac I've been watching some videos about it and it looks awesome. You mentioned the MC309. It's got 4GB RAM. Should I buy some extra RAM? And it's 2.5 GHz processor is less than the requirements for Hollywood Strings. Would it be better with the MC812 or MC813?
Read this first. You might choose to ignore it, but read it first. (True, it doesn't mention Macs, only iPods & iPhones, but it's the same company...)
And while you are reading how terrible a corporate citizen Apple is, you might as well read about DELL's and Microsoft's history of using sweatshop labor in China and other places, really . . .
DELL (Sourcewatch)
Foxconn Is Still a Hard Place to Work (The Atlantic Wire, January 2012)
The perspective here in the sound isolation studio is that everything should be made in the US by American citizens using advanced robotics, but this is not going to happen so long as corporate America is run by egregious sneaky weasels, which includes all the computer manufacturers, with the key bit of information being that someone in China is getting short shrift no matter which operating system platform and machine you use, really . . .
Really!
P. S. Working for a computer company in China probably is terribly hard and boring work, but in context it is better than not having a job in China, and regardless of what you might have deluded yourself into believing, if you pop the cover on your computer, including the display and any peripherals, and examine the components, most of them are made in Asia, Southeast Asia, India, Malaysia, Republic of the Philippines, Singapore, and so forth and so on, with some components being made in Central and South America, as well as some of the Caribbean islands . . .