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“Can we say that the MacBook Air has a perfect, sophisticated external appearance, but its insides are full of waste?” And by waste, the Japanese engineers doing Nikkei’s teardown really mean screws. Thirty of them. (We thought it was marvelous. ) Apparently, Apple is as anal about its manufacturing specs as it is about aesthetics. A common practice for Japanese PC companies is to let the manufacturing plant “improve” the design or implement ones that cut costs.

. . The MacBook Air’s mysterious internal design might be a violent antithesis against Japanese manufacturing, which allows no compromise even in detailed parts of the hardware. So, um whose expertise do you trust? Engineers laboring under the Eye of Jobs? Or ones on the plant floor looking to make stuff cheaper? [Tech On].

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