Established in 1988, QUANTA is well known for its quality and design in manufacturing laptop computer. That's why all the top ten PC companies in the world have chosen Quanta as their ODM partner. With Intel Platform, 15.4' Series With Intel Platform, 14.1' Series. Taiwan notebook Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) account for more than 90% of global notebook production and Digitimes is there to provide daily updates on shipments, supplier contracts. ODM (and OEM) have become a key component of the computer hardware industry. We take a look at what these terms mean and the range of services they cover.

12 Aug Who makes Dell, HP, Toshiba, Acer, Apple laptops?

Have you ever wondered who makes that laptop you own? Well, wonder no more, because I’m going to tell you.

Many people, and understandably so, believe that Dell, HP, Toshiba, Apple or Acer make their own laptops. This actually is not true. In fact, they don’t even design them in most cases. There are three main Chinese ODM (Original Design Manufacturers) manufacturers and one smaller manufacturer that design and make them for all five.

Compal Electronics Inc, based in Taipei, Taiwan, designs and manufacturers laptops for Dell, Toshiba, HP (Hewlett-Packard) and Acer. They currently manufacture 45% of all Acer’s shipped laptops. 50% of Dell’s outsourced notebooks come from Compal. In June they recorded sales of $43 Billion according to their posted sales reports.

You can view some of their current laptop product lineup here.

Quanta Computer is the world’s largest designer and manufacturer of notebooks. Quanta is headquartered in Taiwan, with factories in several continents. 25% of all Acer notebooks are made by Quanta. If you look on their notebook product page, you may recognize the basic design.

It is also not well known that Quanta Computer is now manufacturing the Apple MacBook Pro laptop computer.

In June of this year, Quanta Computer recorded sales of a whopping $62 Billion.

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Compal and Quanta are designing and manufacturing a fascinating new product for Acer that will dual boot Windows XP and Android. You can look for that product to hit store shelves any day now.

Wilstron, also based in China, makes up the remainder of Dell’s outsourced laptops. A fascinating little tidbit is that Wilstron, along with Flextronics International Limited and Celestica, also manufactures the XBox 360 for Microsoft.

You hear many people argue about which of those laptops is better than the other. They’re all made in the same factory, designed by the same people.

Some other major players:

AsusTeK Computer Inc. – manufactured the original MacBook

Foxconn Electronics Inc. (Hon Hai Precision Industry) manufacturer of Apple’s MacBook and iPod nano as well as the Sony Vaio laptop. Foxconn has also just landed some orders from Dell and HP for 2010.

Micro-star International (MSI) – main manufacturer of MDG laptops

OEM vs. ODM

Posted Aug 26, 2006 23:58 UTC (Sat) by AnswerGuy (guest, #1256)
In reply to: What is a Linux laptop? by giraffedata

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I'm presuming you're asking what things like OEM and ODM mean. The bestbet is to read the Wikipedia article on it (RTFWA?):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_equipment_manufacturer

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OEM, ODM, manufacture of laptops

Posted Aug 27, 2006 0:51 UTC (Sun) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

No, I think I know what OEMs and ODMs are, but I still can't parse the sentence into anything that seems sensible.

Who is buying what from whom? Does Lenovo design and/or manufacture the Thinkpad laptops it sells, or what?

The comment seems to suggest a Thinkpad and Powerbook are the same thing. Does it?

With OEMs like Dell, HP, Apple, and [Lenovo] all buying their laptops from the same ODM manufacturers ...

OEM, ODM, manufacture of laptops

Posted Aug 29, 2006 4:17 UTC (Tue) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

ODM in laptop terms are the actual people that make the laptops.

What Are ODM And OEM Services In The Computer Industry?

Apple, Dell, HP, Leveno, etc don't actually manufacturer the laptops they sell.

See:
http://www.gen-x-pc.com/laptopmanu.htm
maps relationships:
http://tuxmobil.org/laptop_oem.html

The biggest manufacture is Quanta. They make laptops for Apple, Dell, HP, IBM, Toshiba, Sony, etc etc.

The difficult part is actually figuring out the real relationships. Obviously people like Apple and Lenovo don't want you to know that your buying the same exact laptop you can get at Dell for 2/3's the price, but only in a fancier case. So they hide were they obtained the latpops.

Nowadays the only thing a 'OEM' does nowadays is install the CPU, memory, harddrive, and install the operating system.

Of course some customization happens on the assembly lines. But not as much as you would think given people's brand loyalties and such.

OEM, ODM, manufacture of laptops

Posted Aug 31, 2006 13:27 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link]

I've had quite some (>10) Dell Laptops (business series, not the consumer crap), and I had even more Thinkpad laptops (starting with the butterfly (that still works without flaws and even runs Linux!!) and later mostly A- and T-models). I worked for companies that used thousands of laptops, of several brands.

I don't know what the difference at Quanta is, but there is a real difference in stability and reliability between a Dell and a Thinkpad laptop; there are many more problems with Dells than with Thinkpads. And I don't even need to start about the keyboard and the trackpoint.

So, to say that all laptops are equal, might be correct in theory, but that hypothesis has contradicting empirical evidence.

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