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[Hollywood Hitman]

Again, pretending like taking away options is no big deal just because it doesn't affect you.

It's not just about what people use for their personal laptops, my developer laptop at work is also a Lenovo. We were about to upgrade, and now we can't. You think they're going to give us Omens?

My point is it's not like they're gone forever and perhaps lenova and whoever else is being a bit over dramatic, but they'll be back it's hardly anything to sit and worry about. If I'm buying a laptop this instance and wanted a lenova sure that sucks but it won't be long till they will be back just fine, or I can go find another one

 

[StereoVsn]

Again, pretending like taking away options is no big deal just because it doesn't affect you.

It's not just about what people use for their personal laptops, my developer laptop at work is also a Lenovo. We were about to upgrade, and now we can't. You think they're going to give us Omens?

HP and Dell make decent business laptops. Most are manufactured in China but not all.

 

[kruis]

I sure won't miss their overpriced bloated trash laptops lol all of this is nothing burgers, life has seen worse, they'll get over it and start shipping again

Trump's tariffs force laptop makers like Dell and Lenovo to halt US shipments

According to Taiwan sources quoted by Commercial Times, Lenovo, Dell, HP, and other laptop manufacturers will stop sending new devices to the US for at least two...

www.techspot.com

"The technology business is feeling the first, massive consequences of import tariffs introduced by Donald Trump. If industry sources are to be believed, Washington's new policy just forced some of the world's largest laptop manufacturers to delay shipments to the US.

According to Taiwan sources quoted by Commercial Times, Lenovo, Dell, HP, and other laptop manufacturers will stop sending new devices to the US for at least two weeks. Technology and consumer electronics businesses are being hit hard by the tariffs imposed by Trump, even though the US president has recently paused the majority of these additional levies for 90 days except for a 10 percent baseline global tariff. However, tariffs against China are now at 145 percent according to White House sources.

Earlier this week, Razer and Framework decided to halt sales in the US and cancel preorders for new laptops. Micron is raising prices of SSDs and other memory products, while Chinese sellers on Amazon are being forced to significantly increase prices or abandon their US sale prospects altogether.

Industry insider sources are now forecasting a significant drop in revenue in April, with laptops, smartphones, and network equipment suffering the worst effects of Trump's tariffs."

This is going to be a repeat of the Covid years when China's manufacturing base had shut down and the global logistics chain, from the smallest components to the final, assembled products came to a halt. Every US company doing business in China will have to switch gears completely, they'll have to procure components and chips from elsewhere in the world (India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philipines, etc) but at the moment there's not enough manufacturing capabilities to cope with the sudden enormous demand. This is going to limit manufacturing output and drive up prices.

At the same time European countries will be swamped by "made in China" products that can't be sold in the US anymore.

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

Trump's tariffs force laptop makers like Dell and Lenovo to halt US shipments

According to Taiwan sources quoted by Commercial Times, Lenovo, Dell, HP, and other laptop manufacturers will stop sending new devices to the US for at least two...

www.techspot.com

"The technology business is feeling the first, massive consequences of import tariffs introduced by Donald Trump. If industry sources are to be believed, Washington's new policy just forced some of the world's largest laptop manufacturers to delay shipments to the US.

According to Taiwan sources quoted by Commercial Times, Lenovo, Dell, HP, and other laptop manufacturers will stop sending new devices to the US for at least two weeks. Technology and consumer electronics businesses are being hit hard by the tariffs imposed by Trump, even though the US president has recently paused the majority of these additional levies for 90 days except for a 10 percent baseline global tariff. However, tariffs against China are now at 145 percent according to White House sources.

Earlier this week, Razer and Framework decided to halt sales in the US and cancel preorders for new laptops. Micron is raising prices of SSDs and other memory products, while Chinese sellers on Amazon are being forced to significantly increase prices or abandon their US sale prospects altogether.

Industry insider sources are now forecasting a significant drop in revenue in April, with laptops, smartphones, and network equipment suffering the worst effects of Trump's tariffs."

This is going to be a repeat of the Covid years when China's manufacturing base had shut down and the global logistics chain, from the smallest components to the final, assembled products came to a halt. Every US company doing business in China will have to switch gears completely, they'll have to procure components and chips from elsewhere in the world (India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philipines, etc) but at the moment there's not enough manufacturing capabilities to cope with the sudden enormous demand. This is going to limit manufacturing output and drive up prices.

At the same time European countries will be swamped by "made in China" products that can't be sold in the US anymore.

All the more reason to get a deal done lol bro I can dig up articles for anything that people overreact to... Everything works out it always does.

 

[mckmas8808]

All the more reason to get a deal done lol bro I can dig up articles for anything that people overreact to... Everything works out it always does.

What do you consider "working out"?

 

[Shadowstar39]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/apple-iphone-price-could-jump-350-in-us-on-trump-tariffs-analyst.html

It wouldn't surprise me if Apple's going to be forced to delay manufacturing for all of their phones until this mess has been sorted. This will also delay the introduction of forthcoming Apple products. Apple will be forced to move manufacturing to the Asian countries with the lowest tariffs, this will take at least a year. Apple products are going to become even more expensive than they already are, not just in the US but everywhere in the world. The rest of the world will pay higher prices so Apple can subsidize the price of their "made in Asia" phones in the US.

Or they can stop price gouging and eat in to their 800% profits they already get. Apple eating the price would be something they could do, if they weren't greedy fucks.