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I had a p15 at a job a few years ago. I was onboarding on this large .NET project that had like a day of environment setup just to get it running. After going
by moonchrome 5y ago
I had a p15 at a job a few years ago. I was onboarding on this large .NET project that had like a day of environment setup just to get it running.
After going through the grueling setup I couldn't get the damn thing to start and the errors were coming from some random windows service that I couldn't see referenced anywhere.
Fortunately I was on onboarding with another person and they had the exact same problem, so it wasn't just something I was doing wrong.
Two days worth of googling and fumbling around I figured out we were the first to get the updated model of the laptop everyone else was using and the dolby surround drivers that came with the new version were killing some windows messaging service used by some database feature.
A hard pass on Lenovo stuff after that experience, drivers breaking core OS services is not something I'd call a professional device. Who the hell buys a P15 for Dolby Atmos support anyway ? It could have no speakers included and be equally good for the intended use case.
- 908B64B197 5y agoAt least in this case it's just lazy OEM not writing good drivers, not actively preloading malware like Lenovo did a few years back [0] There's a reason I stay away from these machines. [0] https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/alerts/TA15-051A https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/alerts/TA15-051A