Huge Apple Orders for New MacBook Pros Cause Labor Shortages?
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Posted May 28, 2012 at 4:43pm by iClarified
Huge orders for Apple's new MacBook Pros are reportedly causing labor shortages at some supply chain players, according to DigiTimes. Some suppliers have apparently been forced to outsource orders to meet shipment schedules.
Component manufacturing plants in eastern China have been suffering from labor shortages for a long time, and although May and June are the IT industry's traditional slow season when shortage issues are usually not as significant, the strong orders from Apple's new MacBook are leaving many upstream makers unable to satisfy demand.
According to the site, component shipments will rise in June with launch possibly in July.
The new MacBook Pro is said to drop the optical drive, be thinner, have a Retina Display, and support USB 3.0.
LOL if they ever built this in the US they wouldn't be able to compete with all the other manufactures and the prices would be triple and the stores would be made of cardboard boxes instead of glass
you forgot to mention there will be no 17" macbook pro in this new lite book I really hope they still build 17" macbooks because I like them and just bought the latest 2.4 but still hope they continue with them so I could continue buying them in the future ! This is my second one in three years APPLE
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