The Nikkei Electronics Teardown Squad went out to their local Apple Store in Ginza, Japan, and purchased an Apple MacBook Air notebook, with the intention of seeing how it works.
True to their name, the NETS did indeed disembowel the MacBook Air, and were kind enough to share their findings and observations.
In brief, they weren’t impressed. While the MBA has a “perfect, sophisticated external appearance”, the inside was deemed to be under-engineered, immature, wasteful and bordering on crude …ouch.
The NETS team haughtily dismisses the kludgey internal design of the MacBook Air with the epithet: ‘the antithesis of Japanese manufacturing techniques’. Having thus violated several virtues of the techno-version of the Bushido code, the product is thus summarily dispatched via a single thrust to the core as delivered by a virtual Type 94 Katana.
MacBook Air Teardown – Nikkei Electronics, Feb 15, 2008
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Is the NETS team still around? I’d be curious to read more of their reviews.
They are indeed. Check out their news portal at: techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/special/teardown