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Re:Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips by tbihl on Sunday December 01, 2019 @07:53PM (#21679012)
Their computers are also matched with Microsoft's for the tallest screen (3:2) you can get, while also being pretty high quality. If you don't want 16:9, the only other options I'm aware of are the newest Dell XPS convertible and Apple (both 16:10). I would get a Huawei Matebook except that it would really rock the boat at my work, and that's not something I want to do.
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Re:Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips by wozniacki on Sunday December 01, 2019 @08:06PM (#21679076) 

   I would get a Huawei Matebook except that it would
   really rock the boat at my work, and that's not 
   something I want to do.
Is this really a thing in American (I'm assuming here) workplaces? Are all Huawei products persona non grata or just some ? I thought it was just the P30 Pro phone and some enterprise stuff that were explicitly barred.

Could you elaborate on where things stand as of this writing, and if they are ever likely to improve, post-trade war?

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Re:Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips by 80386 on Monday December 02, 2019 @05:39AM (#21681333)
IME, workplaces are all HP or Dell. Nobody in America uses Huawei anything - I was a little surprised when I went to Europe and saw signs for Huawei phone accessories.

Americans who have even a vague understanding of technology typically assume everything is backdoored by at least one government. So the Intel Management Engine is a fed backdoor, Yandex forwards all your mail to the KGB, Huawei spies on you for the Chicoms, and so on. And the Chinese have a reputation for industrial espionage, so nobody would use Huawei at work.

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Re:Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips by perl4ever on Sunday December 01, 2019 @10:21PM (#21679568)
I have no idea, but everywhere I've been in the US, both public and private sector, seems to have Dell products, very occasionally HP. I'd expect them to be made in China too, I dunno.
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