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0 pointsrunjake6y ago0 comments

I’ll tell you one reason why you shouldn’t switch to a Lenovo laptop: their atrocious history with backdoors and buggy, vulnerable software, and the lockdown within their BIOS/UEFI to prevent things like swapping components for no good reason.

Ok well, that was more than one reason, but you get the drift.

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krn6y ago· 4 in thread

That's not true for Lenovo Thinkpads, which is a separate business division from Lenovo consumer hardware, as far as I am aware. And subsidizing consumer hardware with spyware has, unfortunately, become a standard industry practice. Most smartphone and Smart TV manufacturers are shipping their consumer devices full of bloatware that is extremely hard to get rid of.

runjakeOP6y ago

It is entirely true for Thinkpads. In fact I wasn’t even really aware of their consumer line. All of what I mentioned occurred on Thinkpads.

And maybe spyware is a standard industry practice like you said. In fact, I’d agree that’s very true. But this is a MacBook thread and I’ve yet to see such a practice on Apple laptops.

isatty6y ago

I don't get the second part of your reply.

So what? Take it lying down?

krn6y ago

For non-Apple consumers I see only two options now: to avoid consumer-level hardware (unless it runs something like Android One), or to replace the OS with an open-source alternative (Ubuntu and Fedora work pretty much out of the box on most PCs). In case of Smart TVs, one either has to buy a Commercial TV[1], or run something like Kodi[2].

[1] https://www.lg.com/us/business/commercial-tvs

[2] https://kodi.tv/

briandear6y ago

> And subsidizing consumer hardware with spyware has, unfortunately, become a standard industry practice

Not at Apple.

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