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Who is the manufacturer behind Captiva Laptops? (lemmy.giftedmc.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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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.

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[–] AnyOldName3 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sometimes when a product is whitelabeled and can be bought directly from its real manufacturer for much less, there's still a good reason to buy the expensive one. The main one is that sometimes the ones that pass QA are sold via the whitelabeler and the ones that fail QA are sold directly, so the cheaper ones are known to have something wrong with them and you're gambling that it's something without symptoms.

[–] dual_sport_dork 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sager has been one of those deals for a couple of decades there and I know for a fact their machines are rebranded by several other nonbrands. If I were OP I would start there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sager is rebranding Clevo, which are in fact awesome, but I don't think you can buy them directly from Taiwan. And of course, no support.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Okay thanks to everyone in this thread so far. This is very good info which may help a lot of folks in the future. :)