Huge Apple Orders for New MacBook Pros Cause Labor Shortages?

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Posted May 28, 2012 at 4:43pm by iClarified

Huge orders for Apple's new MacBook Pros are reportedly causing labor shortages at some supply chain players, according to DigiTimes. Some suppliers have apparently been forced to outsource orders to meet shipment schedules.

Component manufacturing plants in eastern China have been suffering from labor shortages for a long time, and although May and June are the IT industry's traditional slow season when shortage issues are usually not as significant, the strong orders from Apple's new MacBook are leaving many upstream makers unable to satisfy demand.

According to the site, component shipments will rise in June with launch possibly in July.

The new MacBook Pro is said to drop the optical drive, be thinner, have a Retina Display, and support USB 3.0.

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Johnny - May 29, 2012 at 6:01pm

Vang is chinese and adopted dont Mind him :)

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justabrake - May 29, 2012 at 3:34pm

LOL if they ever built this in the US they wouldn't be able to compete with all the other manufactures and the prices would be triple and the stores would be made of cardboard boxes instead of glass

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justabrake - May 29, 2012 at 11:56am

wondering about screen heat and battery !

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Bojan - AlphaEfficiency.com - May 29, 2012 at 11:47am

Looking forward to this new laptop!

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justabrake - May 29, 2012 at 11:32am

you forgot to mention there will be no 17" macbook pro in this new lite book I really hope they still build 17" macbooks because I like them and just bought the latest 2.4 but still hope they continue with them so I could continue buying them in the future ! This is my second one in three years APPLE

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HAHA - May 29, 2012 at 7:19am

Haha! Apple set to introduce The CMP ('Chinese' Manufacturing Plant)

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justabrake - May 28, 2012 at 9:53pm

And Exactly where are these orders being taking for this new macbook ?

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vdesai - May 29, 2012 at 12:25am

apple ordering factories to build more macs not people ordering macs

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MrHygienist - May 28, 2012 at 8:44pm

Bring the jobs back to the US of A