'Living perfectly well without American goods': Why more Chinese shoppers support local brands

If you need a replacement digital screen (or other parts), you'll find genuine parts on AliExpress/AliBaba that were made by the same factories, just were spares. Once last-gen iPhones or HP laptops stop being manufactured the excess has to be sold somewhere.

I don't want macbook-build quality anything.

It's like buying an extremely expensive prop that was only meant to be used in movies and breaks if it's used for anything else for a substantial amount of time.