ethics question: possible to buy PC not made in China?

gotan

Friend asked last night if it is possible to buy a PC (desk or laptop, he prefers the latter) with no components made in China, which he is trying to boycott due to human rights' and animal welfare abuses.
I said I didn't think it's possible??

rockabilly_spike

very much doubt it as far as a laptop goes.
maybe if he built his own PC or bought the parts and had someone build it.

superscaper

rockabilly_spike wrote: »

very much doubt it as far as a laptop goes.
maybe if he built his own PC or bought the parts and had someone build it.

Although even then the actual components (resistors, ICs etc) on the parts (motherboard, dvd drive etc) might still have come from China.

Genghis

gotan wrote: »

Friend asked last night if it is possible to buy a PC (desk or laptop, he prefers the latter) with no components made in China, which he is trying to boycott due to human rights' and animal welfare abuses.
I said I didn't think it's possible??

Have the chinese started employing animals to build PCs?

superscaper

Genghis wrote: »

Have the chinese started employing animals to build PCs?

Don't be ridiculous. They aren't paid employees, they're slave labour

superscaper

Also considering both AMD and Intel have facilities in China, I'm not sure it would even be possible to make a pc without any links to China unless you forensically tracked/studied the history of every chip. And logically if you were boycotting based on moral beliefs then surely you'd boycott the companies linked with China as much as anything physically coming out of China.

albertross_2

We live in a country which invades countries, and drops bombs on innocent people, and detains people without trial. It's going to be difficult to survive if you boycott all the ills of the world.

superscaper

albertross wrote: »

We live in a country which invades countries, and drops bombs on innocent people, and detains people without trial. It's going to be difficult to survive if you boycott all the ills of the world.

Too true, personally I'm too much of a hypocrite to boycott anything.