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Why did they cripple this capability by hiding it in an undocumented and disabled BIOS setting?
by urbandw311er 3y ago
Why did they cripple this capability by hiding it in an undocumented and disabled BIOS setting?
- crote 3y agoIt's an extremely obscure feature for which the device lacks the hardware to do it properly (no VBUS switching), which is almost certainly untested. If I were designing a mass-market product, I would disable it too. They got the BIOS from a 3rd party vendor, disabling it by default and hiding the setting was probably the easiest way to prevent anyone from accidentally trying to use it.
- zokier 3y agoIts under "advanced" tab in BIOS. How many people accidentally stumble there? And how many of those people will have problems with it? And of the tiny number of people who end up enabling it and have problems, how many will then complain to Lenovo? That seems like really marginal case! Especially when it needs also things to happen from OS side too, so just flipping the flag in BIOS in itself shouldn't do much. How much trouble would it have been to add warning "this is not supported, use at own risk"?