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

submitted 3 weeks 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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What you're looking for is the Original Design Manufacturer, or ODM. These are the companies that actually make the pieces. Some have mentioned Clevo, but there's also Pegatron (ODM for ASUS), MSI, Quanta (a favorite of HP), Compal (common for Dell and Toshiba).

A more complete list is available here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laptop_brands_and_manufacturers

Now, there's a bit more involved in this process. The ODMs make stock designs that they sell to the smaller OEMs. The same way that you can buy white box desktops, you can buy white box laptops. Typically, these come as a barebones laptop base. The OEM will add CPU, RAM, SSD, and WiFi. They will also load the OS/additional software, procure licensing, etc. Then they sell and support it.

The large OEMs like Dell/HP don't use stock designs. They contract with the ODMs for something custom. Sometimes the ODM also handles the full manufacturing of the final product.

BTW, the ODMs are mostly from Taiwan, not China.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you so much! That is pretty much peak transparency right there.

I did try to look for some way to contact clevo but I cant get to their website for whatever reason.