See title. I’m curious if there’s one independent from the US, and if possible also from China.
StarLabs, Tuxedo, and Slimbook come to mind. There’s also MNT, but their laptops are quite chunky.
Aren’t these all Clevo rebrands? I know at least Tuxedos are. Clevo is a Taiwanese company.
Tuxedo (based in Germany) are Clevos. Slimbook (based in Spain) sells Clevo and maybe Tongfang, not sure.
StarLabs assembles their own laptops in the UK, but I think their parts are still Chinese/Taiwanese because where else are you going to buy laptop parts?
Personally I would not rule out buying Tuxedo/Slimbook just because the manufacturing is in Asia. Ultimately the components for any laptop will be sourced from there anyway and at least you get support from a European company.
Ah. If you can’t get “perfect”, always try for “better” and hope to drive evolution.
(But see also USA election failure 2024)
Lots of laptops are actually made by Clevo - they are Taiwanese at least. ASUS and MSI are also Taiwanese.
Some manufacturers like CyberPowerPC are at least assembled in Europe - same with Chillblast. Likely a Clevo or Tongfang (Chinese) laptop underneath though.
Otherwise Nokia in Finland, Medion, SHIFT, Tuxedo, or Wortmann all from Germany spring to mind.
I will never forgive ASUS for the 2005-2008 restructuring. They used to make great computers. Then came the fucking MBAs and ruined the brand.
I’m too young to know what ASUS was like before my first computer I built in 2013. I will say that I have always had quality from them. I think one time I had something DOA and they replaced it with expedited shipping. I’ve always bought ASUS where I could and when I haven’t I went elsewhere and got let down. MSI and Acer monitors broke within two years for instance.
