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This is why I always build my stuff from the ground up. I feel like people have gotten incredibly lazy with their hardware. As pointed out in the article. the a

This is why I always build my stuff from the ground up. I feel like people have gotten incredibly lazy with their hardware. As pointed out in the article. the author tosses the hard drive and installs his own software when he buys any Lenovo laptop. As long as people don't think about their hardware, this will continue to happen. Either build your own, or don't use vendors like this.

zorked 11y ago
I wish building laptops was easy.
- venomsnake 11y ago
  Reinstalling windows on them sure is.
  - Spivak 11y ago
    That's not enough if your Lenovo laptop uses LSE. Here's their tool to remove it. http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds104370 http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds104370
    - venomsnake 11y ago
      By reinstall I mean fdisk, dd if=/dev/zero
- at-fates-hands 11y ago
  It's a lot easier than you think. I've done twice and it was a lot easier than I thought it would be. There's two methods - starting from scratch, or buying a barebones system and going from there. I did both with a barebones system, but if you're going from scratch, I'd look at ASUS, CLEVO or SAGR for the parts. Sites like rjtech.com have pretty much all you would need. Guides for barebones approach: http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-your-own-laptop/?ALLSTEPS http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-your-own-laptop/?ALLST... http://www.corsair.com/en-us/blog/2014/april/how_to_build_a_barebones_gaming_notebook http://www.corsair.com/en-us/blog/2014/april/how_to_build_a_... http://www.directron.com/laptopdiy.html http://www.directron.com/laptopdiy.html Ebay listing for Laptop Housing if you're going to start from scratch: http://www.ebay.com/sch/Laptop-Housings-and-TouchPads-For-ASUS/175676/bn_650701/i.html http://www.ebay.com/sch/Laptop-Housings-and-TouchPads-For-AS... Barebones laptop kits: http://www.rkcomputer.net/rkcnotebooks/index.php?l=product_list&c=64 http://www.rkcomputer.net/rkcnotebooks/index.php?l=product_l... Yeah, it's not easy, but if you want to do it, it's totally possible.

zorked 11y ago

I wish building laptops was easy.

venomsnake 11y ago
Reinstalling windows on them sure is.
- Spivak 11y ago
  That's not enough if your Lenovo laptop uses LSE. Here's their tool to remove it. http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds104370 http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds104370
  - venomsnake 11y ago
    By reinstall I mean fdisk, dd if=/dev/zero
at-fates-hands 11y ago
It's a lot easier than you think. I've done twice and it was a lot easier than I thought it would be. There's two methods - starting from scratch, or buying a barebones system and going from there. I did both with a barebones system, but if you're going from scratch, I'd look at ASUS, CLEVO or SAGR for the parts. Sites like rjtech.com have pretty much all you would need. Guides for barebones approach: http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-your-own-laptop/?ALLSTEPS http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-your-own-laptop/?ALLST... http://www.corsair.com/en-us/blog/2014/april/how_to_build_a_barebones_gaming_notebook http://www.corsair.com/en-us/blog/2014/april/how_to_build_a_... http://www.directron.com/laptopdiy.html http://www.directron.com/laptopdiy.html Ebay listing for Laptop Housing if you're going to start from scratch: http://www.ebay.com/sch/Laptop-Housings-and-TouchPads-For-ASUS/175676/bn_650701/i.html http://www.ebay.com/sch/Laptop-Housings-and-TouchPads-For-AS... Barebones laptop kits: http://www.rkcomputer.net/rkcnotebooks/index.php?l=product_list&c=64 http://www.rkcomputer.net/rkcnotebooks/index.php?l=product_l... Yeah, it's not easy, but if you want to do it, it's totally possible.