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One particular bit of this makes no sense:

> What happened when Apple wanted to CNC machine a million MacBook bodies a year? They bought 10k CNC machines to do it.

CNC milling scales linearly. If you want to make 1k things per year, you can probably do it with one CNC machine. I know a startup that's using CNC-milled enclosures and that's probably the single easiest part of their production.

Sure, startups won't buy 10k CNC machines, but they won't need them either.




Yes, and here's a CNC machine shop in Germany machining a MacBook body, or something very close to it: [1]

It's hard to believe that Apple needed one CNC machine for every 100 (was 10, oops) MacBooks. The MacBook isn't that expensive.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob-RBntcZc8


I think you missed a zero, it'd be 100 a year, and then of course they don't need to buy new ones every year.

I'd imagine they probably use them for more than just MacBooks as well but I'm just inferencing and don't have any real idea.




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