With the yearly expansion of the domestic notebook market, the domestic notebook sales sector has also started to shift from semi-professionalization to popular consumption. Due to the domestic notebook market gathering around 90% of the world's notebook brands, the competitive situation in the market is becoming increasingly fierce. In order to maintain maximum profits in such a fiercely competitive market, some notebook vendors pass off parallel import products as authorized channel machines to sell to consumers. Because manufacturers have quite significant price differences for their products in different sales regions, the prices of non-official channel parallel import products are generally much lower than authorized channel products. This gives many vendors an opportunity to take advantage of the situation. Below, the author will provide a detailed introduction on what parallel import notebooks are and how to identify them, hoping it will be helpful to those who are purchasing notebooks. What are parallel import notebooks?