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Think the economic outlook is bleak? Well, for many it is, but not for Apple's long-time Taiwanese OEM manufacturing partner Quanta, which builds the Cupertino, CA-based company's popular MacBook product line.

CENS (Taiwan) reports that the world`s largest contract supplier of notebook computers is expected to achieve a growth of 5-10% in its shipments for the fourth quarter of this year and remains bullish on its 2009 prospects thanks in large part to shipments of Apple`s recently refreshed portable product line.

Regardless of the deterioration and a host of doubts from institutional investors, Quanta is keeping its original projection at a 5-10% growth in its notebook PC shipments for the fourth quarter of the year, due mainly to its shipments to Apple ... to drive sales.

Moreover, with new and / or rising orders from Acer and Asus, as well as our favorite fruit company, Quanta expects volume to rise by 16% to 42.7-million units in 2009.

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