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    Where are Asus notebooks designed and manufactured?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by kstaks, Sep 27, 2006.

  1. kstaks

    kstaks Notebook Enthusiast

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    Does anybody know? I am specifically asking about the Ensemble series, W3J.
     
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    They are made in Taiwan
     
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    American componants, Russian componants, all made it Taiwan! ;)
     
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    What are the Russian notebook components? Aluminium of the casing (possibly) or the oil derivatives the plastic is made from? I never heard of any Russian components in notebooks (God save!). Or, maybe you mean peaces of software or spyware ...
     
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  5. PROPortable

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    They're designed by Asus, built by Asus - all in Tiawan. Certain parts of all models now are made at their new plant in China, but all under the same QC.

    .. for that matter, anyone who would even question Tiawanese construction - more than 95% of all notebooks in the world are built in Tiawan.... I've often said, if Taiwan got blown off the map, the world wouldn't have mobile computers for quite some time.
     
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    That was a quote from the movie "Armageddon" with Bruce Willis and Ben Affelek (sp?). Was what the Russian cosmonaut said when the shuttle stalled on the asteroid and the engines would not fire up. :D
     
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    Wow, I can't believe that there are so many bad spellers in the ASUS forum!
     
    jsis, Sep 27, 2006
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    Yeah I am not questioning Taiwanese products. In my opinion they make good products.
     
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    Right - some people do... But those people are also the ones that are fooled into thinking Toshiba notebooks are made in Germany. I've said this before, I have some Kuwaiti friends and all of their friends buy Toshiba and Sony notebooks because they all believe they are made in Germany. Both companies, I'm sure others do this as well... but they do the final packing for middle eastern notebooks in Germany.... My friend said they'd never buy anything Asain, so I'm sure this is why those companies do it.... even though it's a bunch of bull.

    Basically, the key answer here is that Asus designs and manufacturers their own stuff...... there really isn't another big notebook company that can say that, because if it weren't for Asus' name in motherboards and graphics cards, they'd never have a name to brand their own products and would simply be the designer and builder for all these other companies...... (which they do as well on their ODM side)... Asus=quality.
     
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