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Absolutely not true. I control purchasing for my company, and have caused to be purchased a bunch of Lenovo's. No more, though.

by e40 12y ago

charlieflowers 12y ago
What will you switch to? I lost faith in almost all other laptop manufacturers due to poor quality.
- chucksmash 12y ago
  I bought a Dell Precision M3800 for personal use a few weeks ago. It's available without a Windows license which was a plus (I live in Ubuntu-land). Only drawbacks so far have been a) the available Linux drivers for the Broadcom wireless seem a bit wonky and b) a lot of apps have issues with the high DPI display.
- e40 12y ago
  Macbook Pros and run Windows in a VM (VMware). With the SSDs on my Mac, it's literally faster than the beefy machine with spinning disks I had running Windows 7. With Mac's Spaces, I can switch to another screen running Windows with Control-Rightarrow (using a non-Mac keyboard here). It's really seemless and I've never found a single drawback to it.
- julianz 12y ago
  I've got a Dell e7440 which is a really nice compromise between portability and power. It's built out of something metal and has survived me taking it everywhere so far. 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD and an i7 does the job.
pekk 12y ago
I will continue to order as many Lenovo machines as I need. It is more important to me that the vendor serves my needs than what HN thinks about them. I'm not buying something crappy for my purposes because HN is mad.
- nekopa 12y ago
  This is a strange comment. Most people I see on HN like Lenovo because of the quality of their machines. Where I can see a purchasing manager or head of IT against them at the moment is because they surreptitiously installed software which caused a security risk. If you're fine with your company's data possibly being compromised in the future then continue your ordering from Lenovo. I will still buy from them because I always make it a habit to do a clean install whenever I get a new computer just because of all the crap every vendor adds to consumer PCs.
  - orthecreedence 12y ago
    From what I know (admittedly not a ton), many IT people have custom OS images they install on bulk PC purchases. If this is the case, then any malware that ships with Lenovo would be a non-issue, especially because this was the consumer line of Lenovos, not the business line. However I could be wrong, and perhaps there are companies that feel betrayed. Custom images may be a thing only large companies do. As a consumer, I still view Lenovo as the best PC hardware and would buy again but would probably be suspicious of any new purchase (as in, wipe the HD and install a store-bought copy of Windows myself). That said, I use the Thinkpad line which was unaffected by Superfish from what I know.
  - tedunangst 12y ago
    What makes it a strange comment? Aren't the two of you saying the same thing?
    - nekopa 12y ago
      Not really. The 'just because HN is mad' makes it sound like all the people here are boycotting Lenovo for irrational reasons. I don't think HN is 'mad' at the company, they just have some legitimate concerns.
      - tedunangst 12y ago
        Ah, I think it's possible HN to be rationally mad, but I still wouldn't weight that factor. I thought all pekk was saying is "I evaulate my needs, not HN's needs".
tedunangst 12y ago
Were you buying their consumer line?
- e40 12y ago
  Sometimes. It's been about 6 months since the last one and I don't remember the model, though. We've been moving to Macbook Pros, mostly, with the odd Dell thrown in here and there. I don't like the Dells, though. The wifi on them always sucks and we need to get USB wifi dongles to make wifi reliable.

Absolutely not true. I control purchasing for my company, and have caused to be purchased a bunch of Lenovo's. No more, though.

by e40 12y ago

Absolutely not true. I control purchasing for my company, and have caused to be purchased a bunch of Lenovo's. No more, though.

charlieflowers 12y ago

What will you switch to? I lost faith in almost all other laptop manufacturers due to poor quality.

chucksmash 12y ago
I bought a Dell Precision M3800 for personal use a few weeks ago. It's available without a Windows license which was a plus (I live in Ubuntu-land). Only drawbacks so far have been a) the available Linux drivers for the Broadcom wireless seem a bit wonky and b) a lot of apps have issues with the high DPI display.
e40 12y ago
Macbook Pros and run Windows in a VM (VMware). With the SSDs on my Mac, it's literally faster than the beefy machine with spinning disks I had running Windows 7. With Mac's Spaces, I can switch to another screen running Windows with Control-Rightarrow (using a non-Mac keyboard here). It's really seemless and I've never found a single drawback to it.
julianz 12y ago
I've got a Dell e7440 which is a really nice compromise between portability and power. It's built out of something metal and has survived me taking it everywhere so far. 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD and an i7 does the job.

pekk 12y ago

I will continue to order as many Lenovo machines as I need. It is more important to me that the vendor serves my needs than what HN thinks about them. I'm not buying something crappy for my purposes because HN is mad.

nekopa 12y ago
This is a strange comment. Most people I see on HN like Lenovo because of the quality of their machines. Where I can see a purchasing manager or head of IT against them at the moment is because they surreptitiously installed software which caused a security risk. If you're fine with your company's data possibly being compromised in the future then continue your ordering from Lenovo. I will still buy from them because I always make it a habit to do a clean install whenever I get a new computer just because of all the crap every vendor adds to consumer PCs.
- orthecreedence 12y ago
  From what I know (admittedly not a ton), many IT people have custom OS images they install on bulk PC purchases. If this is the case, then any malware that ships with Lenovo would be a non-issue, especially because this was the consumer line of Lenovos, not the business line. However I could be wrong, and perhaps there are companies that feel betrayed. Custom images may be a thing only large companies do. As a consumer, I still view Lenovo as the best PC hardware and would buy again but would probably be suspicious of any new purchase (as in, wipe the HD and install a store-bought copy of Windows myself). That said, I use the Thinkpad line which was unaffected by Superfish from what I know.
- tedunangst 12y ago
  What makes it a strange comment? Aren't the two of you saying the same thing?
  - nekopa 12y ago
    Not really. The 'just because HN is mad' makes it sound like all the people here are boycotting Lenovo for irrational reasons. I don't think HN is 'mad' at the company, they just have some legitimate concerns.
    - tedunangst 12y ago
      Ah, I think it's possible HN to be rationally mad, but I still wouldn't weight that factor. I thought all pekk was saying is "I evaulate my needs, not HN's needs".

tedunangst 12y ago

Were you buying their consumer line?

e40 12y ago
Sometimes. It's been about 6 months since the last one and I don't remember the model, though. We've been moving to Macbook Pros, mostly, with the odd Dell thrown in here and there. I don't like the Dells, though. The wifi on them always sucks and we need to get USB wifi dongles to make wifi reliable.