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

I can't even imagine how they could make shit-tier hardware even worse

Lmao

Funny, but on the real, China is way better at manufacturing than we are at this point

It won't, the problems of the shitty components from HP, Acer, Asus etc. is mainly due to design not production quality. They're shifting for access to memory not quality is not their strongsuite as even the flagship Chinese producer, CXMT, is delivering less than consistent parts (Safedisk tests showed they have way more stability issues when fiddling with the voltage or the CAS).

While simultaneously hitting the gas pedal on the 6 decade long intentional destruction of the middle class.

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.

Nah they're gonna go back to the slave labor and terrible working conditions angle (note anti China pr account already using this exact article as an example of it).

While ignoring the reason why they are going back to China because the cheaper labor in worse conditions weren't worth the issues they created in the product

Finally found it https://lemmy.world/post/54342938

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https://youtu.be/YLyXvG_HTMA