Are These Companies Legit??

[ImPolarBear]

There are these weird tech "companies" that pop up everywhere, and unfortunately many don't get coverage. Today I was searching for a laptop because I have been traveling a lot lately and when I searched 2060 I went to the shopping tab and saw... Evoo laptops from Walmart??? They seem insanely cheap so I assumed they were fake right away, but I was intrigued because these weren't too far looking at more. When I did an internet search I saw a few things on Reddit and Notebookcheck.net (a news source). On both it seemed like most on Reddit commenters went unsure and they said it could be real because many laptops use the Tongfang chassis, and a partner company that calibrates screens and speakers are partnered with Razer and Panasonic just to name a few. (THX) On there website the also list Evoo as one of there proud business partners. I would just like too know if anybody has experience  with the company or if they think there legit. Here are some sources if you would like to take a look for yourself. 

1. https://www.walmart.com/search?query=evoo&redirect=false  

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/SuggestALaptop/comments/e0hm0y/is_evoo_a_brand_i_can_trust/

3.https://www.thx.com/thx-partners/

4.https://evooproducts.com/lp8.html

5.https://www.notebookcheck.net/Where-are-all-these-Walmart-laptops-coming-from-Tongfang-is-the-source.445489.0.html

[dizmo]

Why wouldn't you think they're legit if they have partners like THX? THX isn't going to simply throw brands on there that someone's made up overnight with fake products. Not only that, you yourself have posted enough material to show they're not fake.

[AndreiArgeanu]

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[BondiBlue]

They're very cheap, but they're legitimate. Not sure why you think they're not given all the research you've done. 

[-CLASSIFIED-]

18 minutes ago, dizmo said:

Why wouldn't you think they're legit if they have partners like THX? THX isn't going to simply throw brands on there that someone's made up overnight with fake products. Not only that, you yourself have posted enough material to show they're not fake.

i mean to be fair THX is owned by razer now and holds zero meaning now xP 

[dizmo]

9 minutes ago, -CLASSIFIED- said:

i mean to be fair THX is owned by razer now and holds zero meaning now xP 

That's not true at all.

[Roswell]

2 hours ago, dizmo said:

That's not true at all.

It is. Razer bought them to slap the logo on all of their junk.

 

THX really doesn’t have any significance anymore.

[SansVarnic]

5 hours ago, Roswell said:

It is. Razer bought them to slap the logo on all of their junk.

 

THX really doesn’t have any significance anymore.

When and what proof do you have? THX is owned by LucasArts.

Nevermind... When did this happen? /facepalm.

[Arika]

13 minutes ago, SansVarnic said:

 

That's depressing 

[ImPolarBear]

Note: I have found that it's also sold my Microsoft and on Amazon plus a Linus review and many other factors say legit...

[Aza_]

Side Note: Its not Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Laptops is it?

[8tg]

There are a lot of non mainstream brands that are making decent stuff. Well, acceptable to decent, sometimes pretty great. Evoo is on the “acceptable” end, it’s what it advertises.

 

You can’t just look at some weird brand and immediately presume it’s fake or a scam, because there’s lots of genuine products out there that are just under weird names. Look at the entire “chi-fi” scene for example, would you believe for a second that the names Hidizs, Hiby, iBasso, Shanling, Lotoo or Cowon are not only legitimate brands, but they’re making some of the absolute best of the high end portable audio players on the market? They’re putting out products with 4 digit price tags to compete with the likes of Astell&Kern or Fiio and doing exceedingly well.

But if you didn’t know what those brands were, you’d probably see a Hiby R5 and just think it’s an knock off sony Walkman a105.

 

Be mindful that other brands do exist, and it’s worth researching them to see what they’re about. Because just immediately presuming everything that isn’t a big name is fake or a scam is lame.

[LogicalDrm]

The reason for many of these lesser known brands popping up is Chinese markets starting to export directly to customers. Many of the brands you see are already established OEM for the bigger brands you know.

 

The problem is that since these aren't sold by big retailers (yet), they haven't been established by reviewers. No big reviews makes you sceptical. That is, unless
you go and look reviews on another language and region. Somewhere where these brands already have good standing and are better available than the big names.

[8tg]

9 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

The reason for many of these lesser known brands popping up is Chinese markets starting to export directly to customers. Many of the brands you see are already established OEM for the bigger brands you know.

This, a lot of these companies that are just showing their face in the US/EU now like Segotep or Aigo are companies that basically just used to make components themselves that got rebranded. They make really good examples of this.

Segotep used to be owned by Colorful, and was making coolers and cases and later power supplies under their own name. They now make just about everything except gpus and storage. Aigo has been around since **1993** and has made everything remotely computer related in that time, now you mostly see their cases and coolers but they also make power supplies and fans and have gotten large enough to actually just rebrand other stuff. Their high end power supplies are in-house designs from their own subsidiaries but their low end stuff is just regular old FSP rebrands.

 

It’s a little surprising when you dig into this stuff because these brands you don’t really think much of beyond “they’re some no name Chinese brand that’s only existed for a few years” turn out to be these massive things and you’re really only seeing the tip of the iceberg outside of China.

Years ago I had built this PC entirely from Chinese company parts:

I think the only thing in here that wasn’t directly from China was the cpu. There are no mainstream US/EU brands in there. And it turned out to be an eye opener into the world of Chinese AIBs, because that cooler is dope, ASL makes every Nvidia gpu there is, Aigo makes some really nice power supplies for the price, maxsun makes motherboards with good feature sets for cheap, goldenfir makes overwhelmingly average SSDs, and the rajintek Metis is a case I later used for a lot of different builds.

 

Interesting stuff, it’s worth looking into these brands and keeping an optimistic mindset towards them rather than just presuming they’re fake, because more often than not you can find some really nice stuff tucked away under a strange Chinese name.