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I'm really skeptical about Lenovo because of the proprietary software issues they've had, even read things about bioses with sketchy stuff in them which couldn'
by NietTim 10y ago
I'm really skeptical about Lenovo because of the proprietary software issues they've had, even read things about bioses with sketchy stuff in them which couldn't be flashed and such.
- pritambaral 10y agoLenovo has (at least) two lines of laptop products, one consumer and one enterprise. The consumer line is shit. It's branded just "Lenovo", but Lenovo themselves call it "IdeaPad". The enterprise line is good. It's branded "ThinkPad", or "Lenovo ThinkPad", and every unit in this line is bound to have the label "ThinkPad" on its body prominently displayed. The two series of laptops your parent referred to are both ThinkPad series. And the sketchy stuff you refer to all happened in the IdeaPad line, no ThinkPads were affected. Lenovo has historically run the ThinkPad division separately with some autonomy granted.
- siphr 10y agoErm which proprietary software issues are you referring to?
- NietTim 10y agoThis http://thehackernews.com/2015/08/lenovo-rootkit-malware.html http://thehackernews.com/2015/08/lenovo-rootkit-malware.html
- viraptor 10y agoOp asked about a laptop with linux compatibility. I'm assuming that's going to be installed from scratch without any marketing/upselling software from Lenovo.