Unlike most, though, Clevo has been around for decades and many, many other brands rebrand and sell their laptops. If you've ever owned a laptop made by a semi-local manufacturer, it's probably a rebranded Clevo.

What that says about the quality though, I don't know. My laptops have all been non-Clevo-rebrands. But they're an established company at least.

Interesting; I've associated them with just making cheap boards. Is that changing?

I think my home server build will eventually be based on a used Asrock industrial mainboard. I’ve heard nothing but good feedback.

I remember them being a bit of a small upstart company years ago when I started paying attention to computer stuff.

Oooh, didnt know asrock made minipcs, im gonna have to look into that!

The firmware they use is closed source though

These brands selling their own refurbished products is great news.

It gives you the ability to still support them while not creating directly more e-waste and benefitting from a cheaper price.

Thanks but a friend of mine had bad experiences with it. Something to do with the power and hinges. Lots of costly repairs on the first year or so.

Hopefully they fixed the issue.