What can you do? purchase. Buy it now. Prices won’t get better anytime soon. Even if you accept Trump’s economic theory – all of this will lead to a revival of the U.S. high-tech manufacturing industry, which I wouldn’t believe for a minute – it will be the number of years that computer and component factories in the U.S. have grown bigger and bigger and freed up hardware. If you need a computer (or a fleet of PCs), there is no time to do so.
What else can you do? Look for OEMs from countries with relatively low tariffs. Unfortunately, the only thing we can say is that it won’t be a company based in China. Apart from that, we have no clues. Trump can brag about everything he wants to have a deal with him, but the simple fact is that no such deal has been reached so far.
If you don’t want to move to Windows 11 or not buy AI PC Hype, you can try to make the most of your existing hardware. Yes, Windows 10 is only a few months away from the end of support, but if you want to pay for support after October, these computers can still do their job safely, but that’s a completely different calculation. Maybe you can migrate them from Windows to Chromeos Flex or Linux.
