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It was purchased directly from Lenovo with a Mastercard. I purchased the laptop in early December, though they did not deliver until after Christmas (first stri
by superfished 11y ago
It was purchased directly from Lenovo with a Mastercard. I purchased the laptop in early December, though they did not deliver until after Christmas (first strike against Lenovo on this laptop.)
The chargeback just went through successfully on Friday. I have not heard anything from Lenovo yet regarding returning the laptop. I can keep you updated on this if you like.
The woman at MasterCard was very helpful and knowledgeable. She was surprised about SuperFish, but seemed to understand it. I use the laptop professionally and do systems work, so I explained how I basically could not use the laptop for work and had to spend time double-checking some of the work I had already done for clients.
There are also annoying hardware issues with this laptop, various intermittent problems causing crashes. I didn't get into that though, and just stuck with the Lenovo omitting fraud / laptop unusable for work narrative.
I always heard good things about Lenovo, but the late delivery, SuperFish, and hardware issues are enough to make me avoid the company like the plague.
- walterbell 11y agoThanks for sharing the details. If enough people do this, it will provide visible feedback to Lenovo. Historically, the Thinkpad brand was a gold standard in business notebooks, but they have sadly devolved into poor followers of Apple. Hopefully the Thinkpad brand can rediscover its innovative roots.
- SamReidHughes 11y agoThinkpads weren't affected by SuperFish.
- walterbell 11y agoThe Thinkpad comment was in reference to the GP comment about hardware issues.
- SamReidHughes 11y agoThe GP didn't buy a Thinkpad.
- walterbell 11y agoYes, the GP said: > "I always heard good things about Lenovo, but the late delivery, SuperFish, and hardware issues are enough to make me avoid the company like the plague." "Good things about Lenovo" are usually in reference to the Thinkpad brand. The GP's hardware issues are unrelated to the historical reputation of the Thinkpad brand.
- SamReidHughes 11y agoAnd they're unrelated to the present status of the Thinkpad brand, because we're talking about an Ideapad.
- walterbell 11y agoThe GP made an assessment ("hardware issues are enough to make me avoid the company like the plague") of the entire Lenovo brand, which includes the Thinkpad brand.
- superfished 11y agoFor me, the reputation of the Thinkpad extended to Lenovo itself as a company. Until this thread, I didn't realize I had an Ideapad instead of a Thinkpad. Now, this might make me come off as a poorly informed consumer, and I'll admit to that if you like. However, it was the reputation of the Thinkpad brand that made me make this purchase, and I am now suspect of all of Lenovo's brands.