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US Laptop Shortage Could Derail Remote Learning:
As students and teachers prepare for a return to in-person learning for at least some of the time this fall, many of the nation's schools are facing shortages and delays for laptops and tablets needed for online learning, an Associated Press investigation revealed.
Lenovo, HP and Dell, the nation's largest computer companies, have informed school districts that they are short nearly five million laptops.
[...] Last month, at the request of President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Commerce imposed sanctions on 11 Chinese companies, including Lenovo, AP reported. School administrators have asked the Trump administration to devise a solution because remote learning without laptops is impossible.
Lenovo has informed school districts of the supply chain delays and the trade controls set by the Commerce Department, which would cause another slowdown. Lenovo declined to respond to an inquiry from AP.
Have any Soylentils run into this?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Sunday August 30 2020, @04:05PM (2 children)
Memory cap is really a problem. Especially for programmers. And it is a marketing barrier, not technological.
Fortunately, solvable:
I bought a Ryzen 7 laptop in February. I didn't really need one another computer at that moment, I just bought it as a spare device for traveling because of expecting future market problems this year by then fresh uprising epidemic crisis. No one knew what's going to happen.
Asus TUF Gaming series. My memory installation policy is "go max as is possible for the platform", every time, for decades. But top model on market was only 16G.
So, I picked a cheaper 8G model of the same line, ripped the slow (cheap?) Samsung memory out of it and replaced with 32G (2x16G) of fastest possible HyperX instead. And offered the original memory as a free givout to friends.
While at it, added a second SSD at a price bigger than the original computer was.
Works like a charm now. I call it "usable" by my standards.
Overall, it is a common scheme: engineers usually do their job perfectly, but the marketing idiots force the toys nearly unusable by their stupid monetary decisions.
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Sunday August 30 2020, @06:11PM
Of course I wholeheartedly agree with you, but it does depend on your perspective.
The marketing people want to sell as much as they can, so they saturate the market with level X, withholding Y until they see sales decline and/or competition offer better and/or cheaper, then they bring out the thing you wanted in the first place but didn't/couldn't wait.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2020, @09:22AM
https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Notebooks/Alle.tuxedo#!#1267,1283 [tuxedocomputers.com]
64GB RAM laptops. What's the problem?