Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs.

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• JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Does this mean the other products they ship aren’t hit with tariffs? Are they somehow wholly made in the US vs the ones that were dropped?

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• solrize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There is still some Lenovos on sale at bestbuy and it’s a little bit tempting to buy one due to FOMO if the prices might suddenly go up. I considered it earlier in the year, but moved my stuff to an old Thinkpad T520 instead and am using that right now. I think I can stay with the T520 for now.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Prices are absolutely going to go up. If you think you’ll want to buy in the next year or two, do it now.

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  • Litebit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    buy everything you need stock up quickly.

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    • solrize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah I’m not mercantile enough to go around doing stuff like that, but I understand the thought. I don’t NEED another laptop. It was tempting, but I can keep making do with what I have now.

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I keep wondering about aptera. They are just getting their production ready model going and I can't help but think if they don't have production to far setup in california they would be smarter to do it in ireland. The carbon fiber body comes from europe and the batteries from asia. So evern if they build it in the us it will suffer tariffs for like 2/3rds of the cost or higher and it will effect everything sold everywhere. If they built it in ireland then it would be way cheaper everywhere but the us and the us cost would not be all that much higher than it would be if they built it here. I assume anything else with such a diverse supply chain would be effected similarly. Like boeing vs airbus.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Don’t worry, they don’t have any plans of actually producing or selling anything.

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    • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Kinda skeptical myself. For anyone unaware, they tried to make an Aptera model several years ago before all the trade fuckery, and despite making waves and turning heads, they eventually had to call it quits due to lack of funding.

      I hope they succeed this time, now that people want EVs, but my expectations of success are low.

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