• vallode@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Sadly this is almost certainly just a Clevo (Taiwan-based company) laptop re-branded and with maybe a few customizations. I’m not saying this is a bad choice but the EU desperately needs a laptop manufacturer, from scratch.

    • lime!@feddit.nu
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      2 days ago

      idk, i’ve not seen their designs elsewhere and they offer pretty bonkers customisation.

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      We had an assembler in Portugal (JP Sa Couto) that assembled Intel-only machines. They marketed the Tsunami brand, both laptop and desktop, and even had a line of computers shipping with Linux, either with Caixa Magica (then based off SUSE Linux) or Ubuntu.

      They pulled such a stunt with a public tender they managed to get involved in a serious corruption case that led the company to bankrupcy. The company won the tender to supply EeePCs to schools, both ASUS branded and a local remix of the EeePC called Magalhães. The shit was they trampled over the then legitimate ASUS representative here, going over their head and making a deal with another european representative of the brand. It was a veritable shit show and cost the bankrupcy of two large companies.