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comment by Super_Cyan
Super_Cyan  ·  3149 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lenovo crams unremovable crapware into Windows laptops – by hiding it in the BIOS

Lenovo hasn't been having a good streak lately.

First there was superfish, and now there's this. It's a shame that the company is constantly trying to exploit some bug to make an extra bit of money. If these two events never happened, I would probably own a Lenovo. From what I've seen, they've made some excellent pieces of hardware in the past. The Thinkpads have been regarded as some of the best laptops in the market. I have a family member with a Yoga (the ones that are a tablet and flip completely around), and the build quality on it is great. It might be a bit slow, but the thing is super light and feels generally durable.

A lot of the revelations that have came out about Lenovo are sad. It's a shame to see a company build great products, but shoot themselves in the foot with bad software decisions.





deepflows  ·  3149 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Is there such a thing as a reliable manufacturer left, though? I just don't know how worked up I can get about this when it's common knowledge that secret services are putting backdoors right into the firmware of our hdds...