Laptop Reseller/Vendor List

Not much currently known.

Reseller based out of Monterey Park, CA.

Sold the Patriot line. Rebranded laptops from Featron, Chaplet, and Twinhead.

An unofficial info page on Alcam notebooks is somehow still online here. The company filed for Chapter 11 on January 28th, 2000.

Reseller based out of Van Nuys, CA.

Fairly large reseller of mainly Twinhead notebooks in the early 90s.

Ambra was a subsidary of IBM of all people, targeting the mail-order home market. Their notebooks were all rebadged from ODMs and weren't notably customized at all.

AMS sold several laptop lines including the TravelPro, SoundPro, Roadster, Rodeo, and more. Rebranded laptops from Arima, Chicony, Twinhead, and many others.

Reseller based out of Milpitas, CA.

ARM Computer sold the "TS" series of notebooks, which came from many different ODMs. They initially seemed to mostly copy Compal's naming scheme, but eventually started selling laptops not made by Compal and kept with the scheme anyway.

Reseller based out of Sunnyvale, CA.

Astro Research was primarily a Dual reseller.

Reseller of Kapok and MiTAC systems. Also looks like they carried CHEM USA's line later on.

Reseller based out of Whittier, CA.

Reseller based out of Walnut, CA.

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BSi was mainly a vendor for Nan Tan/Kapok/Clevo laptops.

CHEM USA sold the Chembook line of laptops, which were sourced from several different ODMs. They are still in business today as a contract provider of RMA services for other notebook brands, including ASUS.

Commax sold the SmartBook line of laptops, which were sourced from various ODMs, including Chicony, Kapok, MiTAC, and likely others. According to a message posted on their website in 2000, they went out of business after failing to secure second round seed funding.

Reseller that sold laptops from several ODMs. Chaplet, Alpha-Top, Sunrex, and even Samsung. They were one of the only companies to market the Chaplet iLufa 750 and 770 in the US.

Taiwanese monitor manufacturer. In 1994, they took a majority stake in Veridata, a Taiwanese laptop ODM manufacturer, and began selling their laptops under the CTX name. CTX went bankrupt in 1999, but reorganized and is still in business. Veridata was liquidated as part of the bankruptcy though, and they haven't sold computers since.

House brand of now defunct PC Club. Sold some Chicony stuff, and seemingly other laptops too.

Everex was the main US reseller of First International Computer's laptops, which Everex sold as the STEP Note series. They sold laptops from the early 90s through at least the mid 2000s.

Ergo sold laptops from nearly every ODM you could think of. They had separate UK and US branches, which both sold laptops into the mid 2000s. The US branch renamed themselves to Brick Computer Company in around the year 2000.

FOSA was mainly a Clevo/Kapok reseller during the 1990s. Multiple sources I've read stated that they were a shareholder in Kapok as well.

Reseller of laptops from various ODMs. They seemingly pivoted to being a business solutions company in the 2000s. Shockingly, their website is still up, including their support pages for all the laptops they sold.

HyperData was a subsidiary of laptop ODM Sunrex, and their main US distributor up until 1997 or so, when they fully transitioned to selling laptops from other ODMs (which they began doing in 1995).

IPC (usually doing business as Austin Computer Systems in the US) sold laptops from several ODMs, but mainly Arima and Quanta. They went bankrupt in around 1996.

Jetta was originally an ODM manufacturer of laptops, but their Taiwanese branch switched to manufacturing docking stations in the mid 90s, and seemingly went out of business a couple years after that. The US branch, based in New Jersey, continued as an reseller of other ODM laptops through 2016.

GVC's main US distributor.

MegaImage sold rebadged Samsung laptops.

Appears to have been a vendor for Jetta/Jetbook laptops, which themselves were sourced from other ODMs.

Not to be confused with Micron.

The main US vendor for ASE's laptops from 1996 through 1999, when Transmonde closed down with little notice. This was to the dissappointment of many, as it seems their service was very well regarded. It seems they just got caught in the middle of restructuring at ASE, as sources say around the time Transmonde closed down, ASE purchased the ODM laptop division of USI. In spite of this though, ASE never made laptops after around 1999, so I don't know what became of all of that.