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by speeder 4505 days ago
Any other manufacturer do that? (someone mentioned HP below)

I am a VLC fan (thanks! I wish I was skilled enough to contribute to the project) and right now using a ASUS laptop, I want to know what manufacturers I should NOT buy from next time (I bought this ASUS because I tried to buy from DELL and their site was buggy and did not closed the transaction... good to me their site was buggy!)
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jbk 4505 days ago
> Any other manufacturer do that?

We heard about HP and Dell doing that, and ONLY in the version they shipped to India or South-East Asia (Do they ship worse components there?)

> I wish I was skilled enough to contribute to the project

There is a very high chance that you are skilled enough, to be honest.

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eru 4505 days ago
Even if you don't know much, there's always grunt work to be done to get to know a project.
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xerophtye 4505 days ago
> (Do they ship worse components there?)

There is actually a chance that they might be, considering not all models are available in all regions, thus there are models that are marked for South-East Asia. So as a manufacturer, it's relatively easy for them to be biased.

That said, vendors in South-East Asia have a history of being scammers and taking out original parts and replacing them with cheaper hardware, so that could be a cause too, and HP might be innocent.

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