Am I an idiot if I still buy a Huawei laptop now?

[Shaqo_Wyn]

I'm going to keep it short.

Trump has launched his trade ban against Huawei. 

 

I have 1500 bucks to spend on a new laptop and having done my research I am between a Dell XPS 13 9370 (barely used) for 1540 or the Huawei Matebook X Pro 2018 for 1500.

Both laptops tick essential boxes for me: sub 1.5 KG in weight, i7, 16GB Ram, 512 SSD, Thunderbolt three and USB type-C charging, well built (little flex). 

 

I think the Huawei is the better value since the screen is 3000 x 2000 and I could care less about the webcam. 

 

BUT, am I a complete idiot for still buying the Huawei over the Dell with all the current uncertainties involved? so do I take the risk and go Huawei or stay safe go Dell.

 

Hope to hear from ya'll. 

 

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[Princess Luna]

Huawei is perfectly fine for Windows based laptops, you should only be concerned on the mobile phones spectrum if anything.

[Shaqo_Wyn]

2 hours ago, Princess Luna said:

Huawei is perfectly fine for Windows based laptops, you should only be concerned on the mobile phones spectrum if anything.

Thanks for the reply! Based on what information do you say this? I couldn't find anything concrete.

Also side question if I may, you think it's a prob that the 2018 Matebook X Pro doesn't have full 4 PCIe lanes on it's thunderbolt 3.0 port?

 

I happen to have acces to an eGPU enclosure that I would like to use at some point.

[porina]

The way I see it is that as long as the current situation is with Huawei, US based companies may be limited in what support they can give them. I'd say at the worst, there may not be future bios updates for that model if Intel can't give them the info for example. Drivers and things like that you can download separately yourself, unless the "war" gets so bad they are forced to detect hardware and selectively block. But we'd have much bigger problems if it gets that far...

[DarkDragon2K04]

5 hours ago, Shaqo_Wyn said:

I'm going to keep it short.

Trump has launched his trade ban against Huawei. 

 

I have 1500 bucks to spend on a new laptop and having done my research I am between a Dell XPS 13 9370 (barely used) for 1540 or the Huawei Matebook X Pro 2018 for 1500.

Both laptops tick essential boxes for me: sub 1.5 KG in weight, i7, 16GB Ram, 512 SSD, Thunderbolt three and USB type-C charging, well built (little flex). 

 

I think the Huawei is the better value since the screen is 3000 x 2000 and I could care less about the webcam. 

 

BUT, am I a complete idiot for still buying the Huawei over the Dell with all the current uncertainties involved? so do I take the risk and go Huawei or stay safe go Dell.

 

Hope to hear from ya'll. 

 

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The huawei is the better value but with this whole war I don't think you would see value in this product later in the future. I advice you check out the hp spectre x360, lg gram 13/14/15/17 or the microsoft surface laptop 2