Resellers : have you seen ASUS' manufacturing plant?

.. or wherever these notebooks are assembled?

I'm just curious as to what makes ASUS notebooks so well made and of high quality, is it the QA/QC process, their engineering process, or whatever else?

Why are they capable of making better quality notebooks than their competitors out there? People/materials/processes ?

I know its a general question, but just interested in finding out. ... if there are answers...

 

its not that they can, its that they do. the reason asus has higher build quality then other companies is simply because they decided to, same for companies like lenova. they simply put things together using a bit thicker plastic(or usually a better material, but hey im typing on an s96j) make sure they have the proper supports to make it rigid, etc. can dell do this, yes theyve proven with their business line that there suppliers can provide well built products, can sony, they better asus builds half of them. compal and quanta the two largest notebook builders in the world have both produced high quality notebooks under there own name. the issue is simply that asus seems unwilling to release anything of a lower quality then well built plastic.

 

Never had the luxury of time to get over there myself, but I believe some others here may have in years past. Asus' manufacturing process doesn't really have anything to do with their quality in terms of how they're different than someone else. There are two things that make them better and I'd list them as the following:

1. design & engineering
2. cost vs: quality

I'd say that Asus, on a whole, in terms of the ensembles..... they're not out to make a buck for themselves.... They make their money as an ODM and plenty with their own branded motherboards and video cards around the world. What Asus does is they take their design/build experience from the notebooks that do for say Sony and Apple, along with others and basically use their own brand to put out a more pure product.

Asus was the first ODM to work with carbon fiber which came after their work with fiberglass when they realized there were stresses that couldn't take when they shrunk the panels...... Overall, Centrino itself came out of a lot of Asus' work and it was their M3n prototype that was *the* centrino prototype Asus and Intel came up with. So they do have more years and more experience on a whole with say carbon fiber... at least a year or so jump on everyone else... that helps.

... I mean it in the sense of the design for the most part. Business in general is about making money....... so when you can do something, it doesn't mean that'll be the end result. Asus' problem in everything they do for other companies is that the other company has the final say in how something will get done and how this will change to lower costs or whatever. So, the details are often lost or performance decreased..... or what have you.

I like to think of Asus' ensembles not so much as prototypes, but say "concepts".... Concepts in the way that auto makers have these awesome concept cars at shows to attract attention and then when they finally make it to market years later, it's just a shell of what it was because they had to fit it into a certain price group to justify production.

Asus on the other hand can make smaller production runs and still survive as a brand becasue they are constantly busy with ODM work...... Asus is also usually very conservative and won't venture into something before they've already been paid by someone else to produce something and then they'll judge how that did on the market.

Asus is a great value for the dollar and it's becasue of the details.... It costs more, but when you're feeding a niche market, you have to realize those details are what people are buying from you. Asus on a whole has spread their notebooks all over the planet and have gotten to the point where they will make "lesser" or more "average" notebooks, but their flagship models are all basically the best in the industry for their size in terms of quality, performance, design and features........ overall.