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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

    They’re all shitty clevo laptops

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

    That's not true! Some of them are Tongfang devices. πŸ₯΄

    It's true those companies have to overwhelmingly work with ODMs, doesn't necessarily make the devices shitty though.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    They're also insanely expensive

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Because they design their own, yes. That's how economy of scale works.

    To benefit from it you either need to sell an absurd amount of stuff or buy from those who do.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Obviously they have their reasons but few people are willing to pay a ton of money for a laptop with designs that while custom arent groundbreaking or particularly unique

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

    They're a nice design. I bought one.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

    I beg to differ, i have bought clevo w650sj back in the day when it was produced, it works great to this day, just added ssd and ram and it works great with opensuse tumbleweed and windows 11 dualboot, i use windows in dual boot because i need adobe and flashing software for obscure chinese phones and flashing software to revive bricked usb sticks

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    Well, the quality of most laptops fell enough in the last decade, that the clevos are decent now. Also, fuck thinkpad part rejection, I'm definitely not buying a (edit: new) TP.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    would you mind elaborating on the part rejection? i am not sure what is meant by that

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    ThinkPads refuse to work with non-Lenovo batteries.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    And different wwan cards. How are you supposed to add mobile broadband? Buy the same as OEM card?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    i wasn't aware of that. thank you! is this a recent development?

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I can't find an exact date, but there is a YouTube tutorial from 2018 on removing the battery whitelist, so it's been at least 7 years.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

    Even t430 from 2014 has a battery whitelist.