Manufacturers

Dell has their motherboards designed for them by Intel and produced by Intel's manufacturing partners. Dell buys there cases custom.

Most HP boards are produced by Asus, where HP gives Asus the specifications and Asus finds the closest matching board from their collection, then modifies it to HP's requirements. HP has their cases custom made as well.

MOST laptops are standard parts, bought from laptop companies and re-labled by the company selling them. Laptop companies design their own boards and cases, and hire companies to make the custom parts that they don't make themselves.

Some laptops are custom designed in entirety by companies like Dell.

Nobody buys laptop cases from a standard parts selection, they get other companies to manufacture what they need to fit a specific set of parts.

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They do laptops and desktops differently. Compaq/HP just buys the parts for most desktops, except for the cases which they design themselves then have made for them. Dell has their boards designed for them and designs their own cases, for desktops.

For laptops, HP/Compaq do both, they buy pre-made laptops and put their brand on them, plus they have some others custom designed and buy those, also pre-made. Dell designs their own and has them made for them.

Toshiba and Sony design AND produce their own I believe.

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Assemblers either buy:
1.) A pre-designed laptop, minus a few parts, which they put in on their own, or
2.) A pre-assebled laptop of their own design, custom made for them, with the same parts missing.

When the laptop gets to the distribution center, it's configure for the customer by putting in either the base hard drive or an optionally larger hard drive, either the base CD device or one with more features (such as a CD-RW, DVD-ROM, or DVD-RW), and either the base size memory (128MB or 256MB) or an upgraded size (256MB or 512MB).

They don't put the motherboard into the case themselves, they finish the product through access doors (such as the hard drive cover) or through part of the case that was left off intentionally for that purpose.

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I don't believe so, I believe they order a certain number of spare parts and have repair technicians do the repairs.

Does your local dealer have to send your car back to Ford, GM, Honda...to get it fixed?

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