The Official Laptops-Youve-Never-Heard-Of Thread - Page 2

Really? That would just be exceptionally cool. Samsung (they and Toshiba are very near the same thing aren't they? they have a TON of products that are built the exact same way) is probably my favorite electronics company. I've never had a bad product from them, ever.

FIRST POST EDITED AND CONTAINS A BIT MORE INFO!

I've heard of Lenovo. Most people have heard of Lenovo. So, no, we didn't. If you need info on them, I'm pretty sure www.ibm.com can do it.

All of the Supertalent systems I looked at on www.e-wiz.com were based on MSI or Asus systems. I haven't seen any ECS ones yet.

Added sabio to the list. It seems they might be a cheap way to get a Quanta barebones, but the selection I've found so far is pretty weak.

http://www.powernotebooks.com/
A ... 'christian' it seems source for a few Compal, Asus, Quanta, Sager, and maybe some others. A cool thing they do is post 3dmark 05 scores, as well as the GPU clock they used to get that score. Very helpful, even if you aren't going to buy from them, you can check the site to easily compare graphics speeds. They're prices seem more than reasonable, $1792 for a Sager 5720 with 7800GTX even though the other components are baseline.

And the last one for the evening. http://www.mindconnection.com/librar...keslaptops.htm

Says some stuff like:
For example:

An ODM named Clevo makes the Sager NP5670 and the Alienware Area 51-M, the Voodoo MClass M550, the Hypersonic Sonic Aviator, and they are all the same computer. Clevo also makes the Sager NP8882 and NP8887 and the Voodoo MClass M600 and they are also the same computer. Of course, the Sager models have a much sweeter price tag!
An ODM named Compal (not to be confused with Compaq) makes some of the the DELL, Hewlett Packard and Compaq line of laptops--plus some others.
Quanta makes many of the Dell Latitude, IBM, and Sony Vaio laptops.
GVC makes the Micron Transport Treck and Treck 2.
Inventec makes many of the Compaq brands.
Clevo and Kapok make certain models of the Sager Computer. Clevo and Kapok are different divisions of the same company and are among the largest and best in the world.
Other ODM names are Mitech, Kapok, Clevo, FIC, Twinhead, and Uniwil--just to name a few.
None of that is real earth-breaking news, most has been covered already, but if it comes from more than one person just makes it a little more trustworthy. Also, my bad on the powernotebooks.com link, someone else already posted that one, so props to them, not to me (even though THEY didn't link it, and I did)

So now I'm getting more curious to see what ODM makes which name-branded laptops. So far, I have found:
Dell Inspiron = Compal
Dell Latitude = Quanta
Compaq Armada and Prosignia (never heard of it) = Inventec
Compaq Presario = Arima
Above info was written in 2003, so might not be thoroughly accurate anymore.
I hear that the Panasonic notebooks are made by Quanta
IBM used to buy from Arima and Quanta, but now have Lenovo and I'm not sure what they do, haven't looked

So, from the articles I'm finding, Compal and Quanta seem to make most of the chassis for big-name companies. Vaio seems to make their own stuff, Toshiba makes one or two models themselves, and that's what I've got for now. Also added a website for Quanta, after tons of searching.

Don't know if anyone cares, but thought I'd add a bit and try to resurrect this thread.
Looking on nvidia's website of geforce-supplied notebook makers gave me some more that I didn't know existed.
Samsung (which is cool to me because they're a favorite brand of mine) although not available in US has a small selection http://www.samsung.com/Products/Notebook/index.htm
LG has a selection as well http://www.lge.com/products/category...notebook.jhtml and they both look to be technologically up to date with other brands like Toshiba and whatnot.

Tarox http://www.tarox.de/produkte/noteboo...oducts&pid=130
Malibal http://www.malibal.com/products/laptops/satori.shtml
Eurocom (Canada) http://www.eurocom.ca/
and a host of others are listed but they're all Clevo/MSI/Asus rebrands.

Packard Bell was on there, I didn't know they still existed. Seems like if you're a shopper from outside the country (the US that is) you'd be able to find something on this site. http://www.nvidia.com/object/wtb_notebooks.html There's Russian, German, and multi-country sites on there, and I didn't actually look through ALL of them.