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Found my new favorite Linux laptop manufacturer/j
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As i understand it, the OEM business has razor thin margins as it is. This seems like an aggressively unsustainable business practice, to the point that it's making me wonder what their game is...
I was under the impression, from reading one of the developers write of his interaction with the owner, that they're just selling dropped shipped white label laptops.
They're simply add branding and a disk image which the white label manufacturer applies before shipping.
So it doesn't even seem to be an OEM... Just some guy trying to make an easy buck with some slick marketing and white label laptops... he just couldn't get the image setup and failed spectacularly in collaboration with the people who could help him.
In the modern parlance, i believe that counts as an OEM but the more accurate term that no one uses is probably a VAR