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A note that this was rather common on the days before PC clones took off.

The vertical integration many associate with Apple, was the common approach to most 8 and 16 bit home computers.

Naturally after all these years, many PC vendors want their margins back, and thus the phenomenon of everyone going back to vertical integration, especially in form factors that are ideal for such, like laptops, tablets and phones.

So the option boils down to classical desktops, or being picky on which laptops to buy.