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    Did Clevo produce this laptop?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by RamblinWreck, May 15, 2011.

  1. RamblinWreck

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    Blacky Notebook Prophet

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    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    Looks like MSI to me. But I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to these things, after all, I own an Alienware ;)
     
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    The circular speaker grilles definitely scream MSI. I'm 95% sure.
     
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    -edit answer below
     
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    Kevin Egregious

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    What the heck is a Pegatron...
     
    Kevin, May 15, 2011
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    Pegatron is an Taiwanese ODM like Clevo, Compal, etc.
     
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    I think I'm going to stay away from this computer then. Not that I don't trust the company, but I just cannot have it failing on me during the school year.
     
    RamblinWreck, May 16, 2011
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    Pegatron is the manufacturing arm of Asus.

    The initial name of Asus was supposed to be Pegasus :).
     
    Blacky, May 16, 2011
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    Did they actually use the word "Gamer" in its name with Intel HD Graphics? :rolleyes:
     
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  12. Electric Shock

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    Nope, ASUS split up into ASUS, ASUSTek and Pegatron years ago. Then they sold off Pegatron.

    ASUS is huge and does all their own manufacturing now. ASUSTek is their low end brand.

    Pegatron is off on it's own.
     
    Electric Shock, May 16, 2011
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    Until 2010, the two largest contractors of Pegatron were Asus and AsusTek - as in 95% Pegatron's money comes from these two companies. And AsusTek owns by far the largest chunk of shares: 25%.

    Read here:
    http://www.pegatroncorp.com/download/GDR_Listing_Particulars.pdf

    Even most of their top management comes from AsusTek former employees.

    Maybe in legal terms they are a separate entity, but in economic terms... I think I am right.
     
    Blacky, May 16, 2011
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    Asus spun off pegatron, but pegatron is still doing really well.
    Their profits went up 50% last year, a terrible economy year for most companies
     
    BenWah, May 17, 2011
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