Today I saw someone once again trash System76 for rebranding Clevo machines and writing that off as some kind of deceptive business model. Ultimately, they’re not “just rebranded Clevo…”, but even if they were, the ignorant douchebag posting this misguided rant fails to acknowledge that EVERY SINGLE LAPTOP OEM does the same. Yes, HP, Dell, Lenovo - fucking all of them!
Are you looking for anything here in particular? There is a lot of this in the industry (Foxconn makes a lot of rebadged stuff).
That being said, Clevo are not a good quality manufacturer in my experience.
Not looking for anything except an attempt to clarify the industry standard practice that System76 are not doing anything different to ALL other computer suppliers (OEM). They’re all using ODM for manufacture. If the quality isn’t great that’s another topic, but trashing them in threads for the reason stated is ignorant and uninformed.