What can you do? Buy. Buy now. Prices won’t be getting any better anytime soon. Even if you accept Trump’s economic theories — that this will all lead to a resurgence of American high-tech manufacturing, which I don’t believe for one minute — it will be years before US-based computer and component factories are ramped up and releasing hardware. If you need a computer (or a fleet of PCs), you don’t have time for that.
What else could you do? Look for OEMs from countries that have relatively low tariffs. Unfortunately, the only thing we can say for certain is that it won’t be a company based in China. Other than that, we don’t have a clue. Trump can brag all he wants about everyone wanting to make a trade deal with him, but the simple fact is that no such deals have been made so far.
If you don’t want to move to Windows 11 or haven’t bought into the AI PC hype, you can try to make the most of your existing hardware. True, Windows 10 is only months away from its end of support, but those computers can still perform their jobs safely if you want to pay for support after October, but that’s whole different calculation. Or perhaps you could migrate them from Windows to ChromeOS Flex or Linux.
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