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Lenovo had a BIOS that would download and install their own crapware. You could image it all you wanted, and it would still inject their own garbage into Window
by AmVess 9y ago
Lenovo had a BIOS that would download and install their own crapware. You could image it all you wanted, and it would still inject their own garbage into Windows.
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- tallanvor 9y agoThat was a stupid thing Lenovo did, but it was limited to consumer devices (and not all of them at that - the Microsoft Signature edition devices didn't have this, for example). Laptops purchased through enterprise sales were not affected by this.
- Tepix 9y agoAt some point you ought to stop trusting a company. After Lenovo has done this three times in a row, isn't it time to say "thanks, but no thanks"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security
- tallanvor 9y agoI mean, go ahead and not buy from them. For me, If they have the best product available when I'm ready for a new laptop, and I know how to buy it such that I won't be getting any bloatware/spyware/etc., then I'll still buy from them because the quality of their hardware has been consistent for me.
- saimiam 9y agoIt's interesting that different people took up the cause of highlighting Lenovo's faults. Unless it's the same person using alts, it looks like people are quite mad at Lenovo.
- ethbro 9y agoSample size 4?
- sitkack 9y agoLots of loyal customers left the brand for this and fucking with the keyboard.
- pjmlp 9y agoAnd went to where, Dell, HP? Because I doubt BigCorp with thousand deployments of ThinkPads with Windows images would suddenly go MacBook Pro.
- tallanvor 9y agoThere certainly are plenty of people that are still mad at them, and they did make some really bad decisions. And maybe I should be more upset since those actions were more likely to affect people who aren't as likely to understand what was done. But at the end of the day, I can probably find as many things to hate about Dell, HP, and every other manufacturer, and then who would I buy my next laptop from?
- discreditable 9y agoThat BIOS adware and the superfish incident only involved consumer-level PCs.
- digi_owl 9y agoIt is almost as of people can't compute that there are multiple product lines under the same brand...
- criddell 9y agoAnd it's shocking that a company like Lenovo doesn't understand that when they act unethically in one line of business, the tarnished reputation may harm a different line of business. The bullshit they engaged in with consumers definitely made me less likely to replace my current ThinkPads with new ThinkPads. What they do have working for them is that their competition is largely just as bad or worse. I wish Microsoft would get serious about hardware. I trust them more than any of their partners.