Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025

Post by lights0123 » Thu, Oct 05, 2023, 9:10 PM UTC

valleyer wrote: post #133

happymellon wrote: post #86

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No, and that's due to 2 reasons. 1. The malware was a rootkit for Windows 2. Windows has an interesting "feature" that will blindly auto-install software that is embedded in a certain location in the BIOS. If a rootkit is placed there, Windows will always try and install it. It's bad for Lenovo, but it's also bad that Windows has this anti-feature.

Wow. Could you point us to more technical information about this "feature" of Windows? I'm hoping someone has reverse-engineered it somewhere, but I'm not finding anything with some brief Googling.

Post by vondur » Thu, Oct 05, 2023, 9:18 PM UTC

bityard wrote: post #118

JTbane wrote: post #111

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Also the build quality of Lenovo laptops have gone down so much it's appalling.

I used to be a Thinkpad fanatic due to nice build quality and good Linux support. But in the past few years, I have taken to just buying Dell's midrange business laptops. The build quality can vary by model but they are cheaper, ubiquitous, have great support while in warranty, and Linux always runs just fine on them if you pay attention to the hardware you're buying.

Post by baz00 » Thu, Oct 05, 2023, 9:50 PM UTC

gambiting wrote: post #140

baz00 wrote: post #119

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Oh man fuck Dell. I get through one every 9 months at work. Absolutely the worst laptops I've ever used. Precision series.

Same. I've got a work Precision 7670 in top spec, literally a £7000(!!!!!) machine, and it overheats within 5 seconds of being under load, the CPU hits 100C and throttles down hard . It's equipped with a 3080Ti but it's the same story - the GPU overheats and throttles down to 200MHz, so anything you play is just a stuttery mess. And it's not surprising - inside it there are 2 heat pipes going to two small fans with o…

Post by sokoloff » Thu, Oct 05, 2023, 10:19 PM UTC

BobaFloutist wrote: post #138

sokoloff wrote: post #56

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Without any extraordinary effort and having only typical DIY skills, I have repaired a half-dozen of my family members' iPhones that people complain are "not repairable". To me, "repairable" means "capable of being repaired in a practical way". I'll also grant you the unstated "at a reasonable price", which for me, having a cheapskate nature, I've always found the repair parts (batteries, screens, and buttons) to be…

Ok how about this: "The company hasn't made any design choices with the express purpose of making repair more difficult."

Post by nope96 » Thu, Oct 05, 2023, 10:32 PM UTC

happymellon wrote: post #86

imglorp wrote: post #70

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Would the UEFI malware affect a non-windows OS installed on that machine?

No, and that's due to 2 reasons. 1. The malware was a rootkit for Windows 2. Windows has an interesting "feature" that will blindly auto-install software that is embedded in a certain location in the BIOS. If a rootkit is placed there, Windows will always try and install it. It's bad for Lenovo, but it's also bad that Windows has this anti-feature.