Don’t worry guys, trump is playing 4d chess, you’ll see!
Any day now!
That might unironically lead to product quality going up.
Quick, check on who all those PC company CEOs are shagging.
But Howard Lutnick told me that there will be electronic factories all across the U.S, employing pastie corn fed Americans…
Oh no, HP’s quality will suffer 🙄
Lmao
Funny, but on the real, China is way better at manufacturing than we are at this point
Horrible Product.
I can’t even imagine how they could make shit-tier hardware even worse
Printers now emit teargas when displaying any message.
Powerbuttons are now made of metal, connected to 240V
Adding paper required disassembling the printer.
Inkt cartriges are now half capacity for the same price and expire after 2 months.
Ironically, the stupid expensive high-end laptops that pretty much can only be purchased through corporate agreements are quite impressive.
I don’t anticipate this worsening their consumer level products though lol
the stupid expensive high-end laptops that pretty much can only be purchased through corporate agreements
Can you also swap RAM there?
Yeah HP had a big push about 10 years ago to get into the enterprise game that Dell was dominating basically. Circa 2012ish? They refreshed their warranty repair system, started pushing next day delivery of parts to match dell/Apple and putting out desktops/laptops aimed at lasting for enterprise. It may have fallen off because I left that line of work shortly after, but Dell/Apple were a powerhouse at that time for warranty repairs. I could order parts at like 3:30pm and the replacement drive/ram/lcd/ribbon cables, w.e would arrive the next day. Apples would arrive by 10am, Dells around 12:30, so next day repairs were most common for me. For personal use dell also had complete care at the time, so you could run it over with your car and say hey this isn’t working, and if I had enough of the pieces there… They’d cover it. That’s what HP was trying to stack up against to get in the door I guess. Don’t know if they did
Back then, Dell would still be putting out BIOS and driver updates for machines that were over a decade old. HP’s update site simply displayed at middle finger.
Yes
EfficiencyExploitation.They’re moving from cheaper (more exploited labour) in Thailand, Vietnam to more expensive (less exploited) labour in China for lower chip costs:
HP and Asus are moving some PC production from Thailand and Vietnam back to China as AI-driven component costs climb The work is going to Chinese assemblers like Luxshare and Huaqin rather than Taiwan’s server-focused ODMs, partly for access to Chinese memory TrendForce expects the share of notebooks built outside China to slip from 24% to 21% this year, with no sign yet of cheaper PCs as a result of said move back to the country
Previously they had moved prod from China to Vietnam and Co as Chinese wages kept rising.
While simultaneously hitting the gas pedal on the 6 decade long intentional destruction of the middle class.
China’s middle class is growing much, much faster than other countries are losing them.
Mexico’s too
