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Interestingly, there are zero non-US powerful laptops. The closest option is the Moore Threads MTT AI Book (12-core 2.65Ghz, 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD, 14 inch). It cannot reach a modern Ryzen in performance though. It's fascinating that only the US can make good computers. I'm not from/in the US so I'm not saying that from a patriotic point of view. How hard can it be to pop a good ARM chip in a laptop and compete with HP, Apple and the likes?

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> It's fascinating that only the US can make good computers.

Seemingly, the US might be able to design good computers, but it cannot make them themselves. This should make it easier for others to do the same, design the computer in country X but actually make it somewhere else, just like the US. Yet we're not seeing this at all.

Which powerful computers are made in the USA? Design and assembly don't count, as these are the least robust to replication attempts. Apart from that, the manufacturing is all in East Asia; Intel is the exception, not the normal!

And Intel cannot exist without foreign talent.

It’s almost like globalism is not so bad as long as your companies pay their taxes.

> It's fascinating that only the US can make good computers.

Lenovo is Chinese, right? Xiaomi, Samsung... can you really not name one non-US company making computers?

I'm typing on Acer right now. And there's Asus, MSI, Fujitsu...

They all have Intel or AMD chips. My surprise is that there are no good, non-US ARM options. I'd love to be proven wrong though.

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