Lenovo, Acer, Asus disregard U.S. economic sanctions, continue to sell computers in Russia

My gosh I can't believe I made such a mistake, I' sold asus from 2000 until 2016. That had little bearing on my laptop choice as asus

Honestly I've never had a quality issue with them. I've seen the odd board go due to shit power or a bad cap.. but I mean, maybe 0.02% failure rate due to the hardware itself.

I sold many other brands, I has an Acer R7backward laptop that I truly loved (put an ssd in it and painted it seafoam green with a pink racing stripe, reminiscent of a Beretta pace car I once loved)

Prior to that I ran an asus 13" powerhouse ultrasound that also served me like a champ. I've had a couple MacBook pros and a MacBook air in there too.. that's about 15 years of laptops for me. The asus 13i never had to service. All the macs I did, thr acer got a very huge rebuild and upgrade..

I've had a couple home built imacs from junked old ones and a couple kitted out lenovo refurbished desktops. Also daily built and repaired apple and pcs for literally 2 decades.

The flip 14 is proving to be a huge chanp this far, it could use a ram bump to 36 for sure but what laptop wouldn't benefit from that.

Usually I use it on my desk with a bt keyboard and mouse in flipped backward configuration. But the keyboard is solid on it and the TouchPad is stellar.

The fingerprint reader is great and suuuuper fast. There are 2 gripes I have. 1, the lack of usbc charging, 2 the power button could be a different colour to make it easier to find.. black on black looks slick but holy asus, I get putting it out of the way, I had a gateway it was an actual key next to HOME..

The charger provided is nice, I like it's 90⁰. I wish the contacts on the wall side folded up.

Build feel is solid, and not like ThinkPad solid, I mean solid like the a Nokia 3380.

I got a free year of accidental damage warranty by registering it the day of purchase.

I've used this service for customers, it's amazeballs, I've had them cross ship replaced laptops on my word its not repairable.like 2 days to get the dude running again.

My seasoned background in laptops and pcs tells me the asus is a winner.

I also have a hard time with lenovo because some of their chips are closed source stuff and I distrust. I seen disproportionate amounts of them with malware.

I hope this helps your choosing

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