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Did I understand what you said at the end correctly, are you willing to commit to buy 8 million dollars worth of laptops?

>>shurco+(OP)
Yes. (and then sell them, obviously, ideally for much more than $8mm)

>>shurco+(OP)
Thats what happens if you take your privacy seriously. You buy one-off Laptops that you can use like paper tissues.

>>rdl+8
You think there is a market for 10k of those? </sceptic>

>>Drdrdr+A5
Not as random laptops, no.

>>rdl+66
If you see a market oppurtunity like this, I suggest you go for it. There are many companies which will make you a custom laptop for such a quantity. Good luck!

>>rdl+8
This is a perfect scenario to test the demand will kickstarter

>>Drdrdr+A5
I'd seriously consider it. It would not be a sole criteria, but it is important to me.

>>Drdrdr+78
The problem is the brand specification. Nobody wants unbranded laptops.

>>vinceg+Qh
I (anecdotally) disagree. I'd love to have a good-spec laptop that had no logos or branding on it.

>>sbarre+Ij
Agreed. I love Apple's hardware (much more than their user interface), but I dislike being in public with a giant glowing half eaten apple.

>>sbarre+Ij
It's not so much the logos or the branding, it's the build quality. I used to run Ubuntu on old ThinkPads, ditched it like an ugly girlfriend once I could afford a Macbook Pro. Old ThinkPads were a step up from commodity PC laptops, which were a step up from desktops. In a brief fit of FOSS zeal I bought a System76 Galago Pro, but the build quality was so inferior to a Macbook Pro that I relegated it to desktop duty. If I felt the need to move off of Apple hardware for whatever reason for my primary ride, it'd be back to a ThinkPad.

Rdl specified Dell or Lenovo also for the reason that the supply chain for those two ecosystems are well-developed enough that providing customer support won't be a huge hassle.

>>vinceg+ao
I totally agree with what you're saying here.. That's why I sand "good spec" laptop. ;-)

But yes the question is whether or not that actually exists.

>>sbarre+Wc3
If there was then System76 would be using that provider. Actually, if there was, then everybody else's laptops wouldn't be so horrible, either.