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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, Insightful) by RS3 on Sunday August 30 2020, @05:54PM (4 children)
I'll assume you pity us because we allowed ourselves to become dependent on another country- one with whom we've had an ongoing rocky relationship. I'll agree 100% with you on that.
Problem with the economic system- nobody wants to invest in laptop production somewhere other than China. That's a pity. Taiwan is a good friend and ally of the US, so we should be able to get laptops there in the meantime, if China hasn't blockaded them.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2020, @10:10PM (1 child)
All the rhetoric against China is a joke. The only smart way to detangle from China is to get our own manufacturing industry into high gear first and then start cutting ties second. The President's solution - talk tough while we still rely on them for everything from phones to toasters to diapers to axles, is absurd. Only an idiot picks a fight with someone that already has his nuts in a vice.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by RS3 on Monday August 31 2020, @01:44AM
Said the kettle to the pot. Look, you're right, but you, like too many, state things like it's just that simple. Your memory may be short, or you may be young and haven't learned history, but USA used to be the greatest manufacturer in the world of most things. (NOTICE I WROTE "MOST". You'll pick apart my statement and conveniently leave out my disqualifier.) Then the MBAs and short-sighted investors (of all kinds) took over, shut down and literally scrapped the factories- which were at least making something and providing jobs- and "outsourced", uh, yeah, phones to toasters to diapers to axles and at this point I'm not sure what really IS made in USA. More MBAs is about all I can see.
So, since the people with the money and therefore power have decided, how do you propose to convince them to invest unimaginable $ to build new factories in the US? Maybe you can ask them nicely? Maybe you can appeal to their consciences? Maybe kidnap their daughters? Seriously Khallow, rather than your usual criticism and negativity, tell us how you propose to fix the problem?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2020, @09:18AM (1 child)
http://www.worldstopexports.com/taiwans-top-import-partners/ [worldstopexports.com]
That blockade is being top trading partner? And that list includes Hong Kong in 3rd spot, which is CHINA
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Wednesday September 02 2020, @04:33PM
Interesting- thanks for that link. But as much too often happens here, you ACs especially conveniently single things out, rather than taking my comment in context.
The context was: "trading with the USA". The context and idea I was trying to convey is: we (USA) can still buy laptops from Taiwan, unless the Chinese blockades us (USA) from buying from Taiwan.
That has NOTHING to do with Taiwan trading with China.
Get it? Two separate things. Not necessarily interconnected. I suspect there is 1 user here on SN that has this repeated and becoming very boring problem with mentally commingling disparate things, then commenting authoritatively.