[Discuss] My HP Pavilion's HD bit the dust and it is 13 years old, so instead of replacing the disk again, I would like a new laptop. But I would like to pay <$300. I do not expect the best or the biggest. I have been told that some computers do not l

[eric.chadbourne at icloud.com (Eric Chadbourne)]

> On Jun 2, 2015, at 11:17 AM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 6/2/2015 10:46 AM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
>> Good point.  They produce so much cheap crap.  Apple designs their
>> own hardware no?
> 
> Apple buys from Foxconn, Pegatron and Quanta. Apple has a more active hand in their industrial designs than the other national brands but they still buy from the same ODM everyone else uses.
> 
>> What about iXsystems and System76? They seem to generally have good
>> build quality.  Better QA than the big distributors maybe?
> 
> iX does servers, different kettle of fish.
> 
> System76 buys bare-bones notebooks from some of the ODMs I previously listed. I know they've bought from Clevo in the past but I don't know who they're currently using.
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> 

It was a bit off topic but fascinating info.  Thanks.

- Eric