What do you know about the notebook industry ? Do you know the Original Equipment Manufacturer ?

But what is a laptop OEM ?

Nowadays, the manufacturers who conceive and assemble themselves their machines are very rare. Acer, Compaq, Toshiba,Apple, Dell, Sony and others entrust at least the production to thirds.

People as Acer sell models directly drawn from the ranges of the "true" manufacturers of notebooks after some aesthetic final improvements.

Quanta and Compal (which is not Compaq) alone produce

almost 50% of all the notebooks run out in the world.
The remainder is divided between Wistron, Asus, Uniwill, Clevo, FIC, Aopen, ECS, etc.

The Research and Development part is done mainly in Taiwan, but roughly 50% of the world production are ensured in China!

It should be noted that certain cases are very amusing, like that of Asus, the manufacturer produces laptops for thirds (Sony and Apple for example), for his own brand but also his own models “without brand”.

The series TravelMate 29x of Acer comes directly from the line CL5x of Compal.
But the machines like TravelMate 800 and 8000 profit of specific design from Acer (but we do not know who produces them).

Notebooks OEM are sold directly by the manufacturers to wholesalers or retailers.
A little like barebones PC, part of the equipment is already included in "the case".
In the case of the laptops, they include all except: processor, memory, hard disk, optical reader and wifi.