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I’ll tell you one reason why you shouldn’t switch to a Lenovo laptop: their atrocious history with backdoors and buggy, vulnerable software, and the lockdown wi
by runjake 7y ago
I’ll tell you one reason why you shouldn’t switch to a Lenovo laptop: their atrocious history with backdoors and buggy, vulnerable software, and the lockdown within their BIOS/UEFI to prevent things like swapping components for no good reason.
Ok well, that was more than one reason, but you get the drift.
- krn 7y agoThat's not true for Lenovo Thinkpads, which is a separate business division from Lenovo consumer hardware, as far as I am aware. And subsidizing consumer hardware with spyware has, unfortunately, become a standard industry practice. Most smartphone and Smart TV manufacturers are shipping their consumer devices full of bloatware that is extremely hard to get rid of.
- isatty 7y agoI don't get the second part of your reply. So what? Take it lying down?
- krn 7y agoFor non-Apple consumers I see only two options now: to avoid consumer-level hardware (unless it runs something like Android One), or to replace the OS with an open-source alternative (Ubuntu and Fedora work pretty much out of the box on most PCs). In case of Smart TVs, one either has to buy a Commercial TV[1], or run something like Kodi[2]. [1] https://www.lg.com/us/business/commercial-tvs https://www.lg.com/us/business/commercial-tvs [2] https://kodi.tv/ https://kodi.tv/
- briandear 7y ago> And subsidizing consumer hardware with spyware has, unfortunately, become a standard industry practice Not at Apple.
- runjake 7y agoIt is entirely true for Thinkpads. In fact I wasn’t even really aware of their consumer line. All of what I mentioned occurred on Thinkpads. And maybe spyware is a standard industry practice like you said. In fact, I’d agree that’s very true. But this is a MacBook thread and I’ve yet to see such a practice on Apple laptops.