I am no longer going to reply to you as you seem to have a very limited perspective on life and cannot seem to read my replies or get the bigger picture. Again. Enjoy replying on your Chinese built computer or phone. You are a massive hypocrite. Stop endorsing “slave” labor. /s
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well, it’s the best we have 
what makes you think this would be different for a laptop?
I mean, you probably know better than me that right now it is rather impossible to do that.
One might be able to make the case and PCB on US soil. How about CPU, RAM, SSD, Camera…
So, depending on the actual goal, the price is too high. Or too low 
My whole point was, you can only start somewhere and iterate towards perfection.
As always
The software is already ready for the Librem 14 USA and Purism doesn’t have to go through 6 hardware prototypes like it did with the Librem 5, because it can use an Intel reference design for the laptop and the debugging has already been done for the Librem 14, so Purism can just reuse the same PCB design.
The really expensive part is the shell (case, hinges, keyboard) because that is all custom designed and you have to produce a lot to pay its manufacturing, and no company does that work in the US. If we allow those parts to be made in China, than I assume that Purism can convince the same Chinese/Taiwanese ODM that currently makes the Librem 14 to sell them just the shell.
It shouldn’t be that hard to find a CPU, RAM, SSD and webcam whose chips are fabbed in the US. The problem is that many companies then send the chips to some place like Malaysia or China for packaging. For example, if you use RAM and an SSD from Micron, there is a good chance that its chips were fabbed in the US, but Micron as plants in India, China and Malaysia for assembly, packaging and inspection.
At this point, Purism has to recover its development costs for the Librem 5, so I don’t think that the company will undertake any new projects for a while. We know that the Librem 5 went way over budget, and Purism is already committed to produce Fir, so I can’t see it doing anything ambitious like the Librem 14 USA laptop or Librem 11 tablet in the near future.
Once Purism has strong finances again, I assume that it will make a RYF tablet based on the same i.MX 8M design as the Librem 5, and it will produce both a Chinese and a USA version. Purism will have done the R&D and software development for that tablet, so it seems like the logical next step for the company.
I can’t see Purism investing a lot in a product like the Librem 14 USA, because it will never be able to run on 100% free software and it can’t free/open source schematics for it due to the Intel copyright of its reference designs. Purism will keep producing x86 laptops and mini-PCs, because it is profitable, but I don’t foresee the company investing a lot in the x86 platform, because it has a path to RYF devices and free/open hardware with the i.MX 8M and RK35XX and eventually with RISC-V.
I don’t know how long it will take for Rockchip, NXP, Alibaba or some other company to make an ARM or RISC-V processor like Apple’s M1 processor that matches x86 in terms of performance and can run on 100% free software, but it is going to happen. With freer options on the horizon, I just can’t see Purism investing much in x86 in the future
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