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Leaked images reveal Lenovo’s Steam Deck competitor with a hint of the Switch (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol, it'll run windows 11 to kill your battery with all the spyware it runs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Feels like a stretch. Elaborate?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Back in 2015 or so Lenovo was pre-installing superfish spyware on some systems. Whether this was an accident or intentional is up for interpretation. Whether 8 years is enough to earn back trust is up to you. Personally I re-image anything that's mine because I don't need the vendor's bloat that just does the same things windows already does. I don't really use windows much anyway these days for my personal machines but I'm probably not going to buy anything from Lenovo any time soon.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It wasn't just preinstalling malware. It was also installing malware stored in the firmware into fresh Windows installs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, i remember it being pretty bad and fighting with my boss at the time because they were all in with lenovo. Even after I showed them the articles about the malware they wanted us to push out lenovo's bloat on all machines (like the stupid battery monitor) because they liked how it looked better. I got a new job shortly after.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Not to mention the Lenovo Service Engine rootkit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Lenovo_Service_Engine