FFXIV for Mac

[Naylia]

For anyone assuming that a Foxconn made computer is the same across brands you are wrong.

Foxconn performs final assembly. Many of the companies that use Foxconn for final assembly, manage and dictate to Foxconn the suppliers of the components used in final assembly.

While at b-school I toured Dell. They were proud of the fact that every 2 to 4 weeks they rebid all of the suppliers for a PC model line to get lower prices. So for a given model you actually had different RAM, motherboards, and other components from week to week. As long as they met the sold specs it was fine, but the part supplier can still change constantly. I know this caused our IT department pain because they could not standardize builds purely by model number when something like a motherboard could change mid product life cycle.

You won't see that in an Apple product (and other companies in many other industries). Commitment to quality often means specifying the exact plant that a part from a particular supplier comes from and providing that part to your final assembler. It's the only way to ensure a consistent quality component, and hence a quality final product.