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StarFighter 16-Inch
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#212Would it be possible to hackintosh such a device?
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#213I’m unable to order this laptop without a charging brick which is now illegal in the EU. Same goes for the standard one year warranty. Should be two at minimum. I had my country configured to Belgium while testing this.
Do they actually have a business presence in the EU? If not, how would those rules apply to them? Edit: tbh, the new "user friendly" idea of automatically converting US prices to the local currency of the visitor in spite of the company not having any connection to the visitor's locale always makes me think of drop shippers, not of legitimate businesses. Especially if i'm in a non USD non EUR country, I am fully awar…
They are a UK company.
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are mandated to provide 2-year legal guarantee under EU consumer protection law when they target EU consumers -> i.e. operate an eshop that ships to EU and sells in local currencies. Regardless of where they are located.
And those EU consumer protection laws apply outside the EU? I know that USers think their laws apply everywhere, but that's just a myth.
Clearly! I see how this is a bit unusual for GDPR etc in a services digital world, but for physical products it's extremely standard everywhere that local laws apply to foreign companies.
If you sell medical devices (apparently even down to toothbrushes) in the USA, you have to follow FDA rules. If you sell children's toys in the EU, you've had to follow EU consumer regulations (e.g. CE mark) at least since the 90s. Going back to the 70s, if you sold a physical product in the US as a foreign company you had to follow local rules about maximum delivery times and minimum warranties. If you don't follow the rules, your shipments get blocked at customs, and any marketplaces (Amazon) selling your products get fines as well for not verifying you appropriately, so marketplaces will verify and ban your business too if you blatantly violate local rules (e.g. selling devices containing radios without FCC approval). If you're selling laptops at any scale, you need to follow the local rules for every country you ship to.
There'll certainly be cases everywhere where enforcement isn't perfect (if you contact a tiny vendor in China and they ship to you directly and you sign for & pay the customs yourself, in practice you'll get away with it, or you can always travel to a country to buy a product and carry it back personally) but in the general case local regs on physical product sales are not unusual or optional at all.
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#215> 5 years of updates Is this an improvement on how long whatever it's talking about usually gets updates for, or is putting a limit on it at all a bad sign? I've only seen this with regards to mobile phones before.
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#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
> which is probably non-compliance because it adds friction. You're gonna have to point to part of the regulation where thats not allowed. there is a mechanism for deletion. so long as its done within 30 days its still within spec
I don't know it inside out but I'm following the basic standard "it should be as easy to withdraw consent as give it" The overall point being that if you want to use a product/service, you'll look past minor violations of local regulations on account deletion or charger bundling.
Giving consent required you to receive an email to verify your account. Revoking consent requires you to send an email. It’s symmetric, like poetry.
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#217Looks amazing, it even has Ins key, as if they expect people to actually work on this laptop /s :) . But the price of 4200$ is out of reach for me unfortunately.
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#218I’m unable to order this laptop without a charging brick which is now illegal in the EU. Same goes for the standard one year warranty. Should be two at minimum. I had my country configured to Belgium while testing this.
It's not $megacorp, try contacting them and asking.
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#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
> which is probably non-compliance because it adds friction. You're gonna have to point to part of the regulation where thats not allowed. there is a mechanism for deletion. so long as its done within 30 days its still within spec
I don't know it inside out but I'm following the basic standard "it should be as easy to withdraw consent as give it" The overall point being that if you want to use a product/service, you'll look past minor violations of local regulations on account deletion or charger bundling.
You're admitting to not actually knowing the law, yet accusing someone of being in violation of it...
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#220Every new $3000 computer I see just makes me glad I bought a Snapdragon X2 laptop.
Hi. Could you please describe your opinion on the compatibility and stability (especially everything wireless) of the system?