{"id":1555,"date":"2008-02-24T03:07:36","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T06:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=2418"},"modified":"2010-05-08T17:01:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:01:32","slug":"re-design-snowball-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/24\/re-design-snowball-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Design snowball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zathras.de\/angelweb\/blog.htm\" target=\"_blank\">uliwitness<\/a><\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When it comes to Japanese PC manufacturers, their manufacturing plants will complain or add their own technical efforts to lower cost, if a proposed structural design was insufficient,&#8221; one of the engineers said. &#8220;The MacBook Air gives me an impression that its manufacturing plant packaged the computer exactly as ordered by Apple.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rainer,<\/p>\n<p>thanks for posting this &#8212; it mirrors exactly the thoughts I had when I read this news bit, and now I don&#8217;t have to coherently blog about it anymore.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, from what I heard, this is a common thing with Asian manufacturers. They like to improve products, but since they usually don&#8217;t have the whole list of why something should be done this way and not another, the customer of these manufacturing plants isn&#8217;t always happy with that.<\/p>\n<p>Some western companies have &#8220;solved&#8221; this by putting QA guys in place that will babysit the manufacturers and make sure stuff gets produced the way they requested it, for exactly that reason.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this is a cultural issue that will have to be resolved by understanding each other&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, BTW, also found your review of the FireWire power specs interesting. I was hoping someone with better electrical skills than me would eventually post the fundamental maths involved to prove\/disprove the &#8220;No FireWire cuz it needs too much juice&#8221; theory that&#8217;s been bandied about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by uliwitness: &#8220;When it comes to Japanese PC manufacturers, their manufacturing plants will complain or add their own technical efforts to lower cost, if a proposed structural design was insufficient,&#8221; one of the engineers said. &#8220;The MacBook Air gives me an impression that its manufacturing plant packaged the computer exactly as ordered by Apple.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-hardware"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-p5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}