Hello infinitve wisdom of the fediverse!
Delving into the undepths of laptop manufacturers, I have recently found out that very few distinct manufacturers actually exist. A lot of laptops are just rebranded/whitelabeled.
Since I have not found an answer to my newest question on the search engine of my least distrust and I wont ever post on reddit again (which did come in handy for this stuff in the past), I ask you folks.
Captiva, a brand that seems to be sold by a lot of vendors, at least in germany, seems to be a subsidiary of ecom trading (a b2b seller for hardware that I use for work). They use the same chassis as schenker from what I can see.
I heard that some chinese vendor makes these but I think, since we have a more consumer oriented audience here, we might want to make it more transparent so people can make informed decisions instead of doubling the price of their hardware by it going through tons of hands.
P.S.: I took longer to search for a fitting community for this question than I took for writing it. If you know a better place to put this, pleas lmk. Thank you, have a great new year if you celebrate it.
It’s a similar situation with power tools. There’s about 4 large Chinese manufacturers that make almost everything, despite what the logo on the side says. I did some research last time I made a purchase and it was disappointing.
That’s how most manufacturing works. But just because 2 different brands roll out of the same factory, doesn’t mean they are the same thing with different labels. Brands like Milwaukee and Makita are going to have completely different specs and manufacturing price points than someone like Ryobi or Harbor Freight’s house brands.
My friend, I understand how manufacturing works. I was just looking to see who might be a better choice to support with a purchase.
I see, I misread. It is a shame it’s so hard to find non-chinese power tools. Even “All American” brands like Snap-on, Matco, Mac Tools, all just sell over priced chinese drills with a warranty.
Thank you for chiming in. This is very good information. I would highly suggest you dump the stuff you found out in the fedi or link to a place so we can make as many people as possible buy stuff for cheap or at least have the smallest amounts of downstream hands and margin on it.