Stay the hell away from Lenovo Thinkpad's -- they've become quite nasty and unfriendly in latter years. Even before the issues below, they were doing BIOS-level stuff, like locking you to whitelisted IDs so you couldn't repair/replace/upgrade parts yourself, and Linux compatibility was not something they cared about maintaining for drivers.
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 at 20:33 Russell Coker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:22:30 AM Brian May wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 at 19:33 Russell Coker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Now the question is what vendor do I use for my next Laptop? I think > > > that Lenovo has demonstrated that they can't be trusted. > > > > Lenovo in their official statement say that "Think-brand PCs are > > unaffected." and "The software does not come loaded on any Think-branded > > PCs." > > But the people who thought it was a good idea were involved with the Think > branded PCs. > > > http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2013 > > > > Which presumably means all Thinkpads are OK. > > > > Still, they seem intent on destroying their Lenovo brand name reputation > > however. > > Yes. > > >
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