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Lenovo quietly launched the world’s lightest laptop but it won’t sell it outside Asia
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TIL Lenovo is Fujitsu
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Literally more interesting information in article than laptop itself
My favourite bit was where it said its predecessor is infact lighter.
i did not know that lenovo bought-out fujitsu's pc business, either. apparently it happened about five years ago.
That explains why the quality of their LifeBook laptop series deteriorated
More the other way around, Fujitsu is Lenovo. Lenovo owns a controlling stake in Fujitsu. Lenovo is still a Chinese company.
Everything is Lenovo these days.
Who gives a shit. I'm so sick of this race to the bottom of the thinnest and the lightest and whatever the fuck appletard trendy bullshit. I want my six pound, two inch thick, 7-row keyboard chonker with a dozen status lights, 20 different ports, and more maintenence panels than the fucking space shuttle.
ThinkPads were once a utilitarian utopia. Lenovo stole that from us and I will never forgive them.
Same with the Superfish spyware.
I'm pretty sure plenty of companies including Lenovo still make chunky workstations, no?
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Framework.
Made of Unobtainium.
Are there supply issues? IDK, I haven't looked into getting one, but there's a number of people that have received theirs and have commented on them, good and bad.
They're only available for pre-order, they ship in 3-6 months.
My W530 won't die. I fucking love that thing. I also have a system76 Oryx and pinebook pro but I find myself using the w530
Same here (W520). I have maxed out everything. 32GB RAM, two SSDs, two external monitors. I will continue using this thing and make it the ThinkPad of Theseus.
Fuck modernity.
To be fair, even Apple is done with this stuff. Now that Ive is gone, and they seem to be listening to customers, they’re actually putting reasonable I/O on laptops again.
I will use my T470 until I die, because I doubt it will die before me
Ever since the scandal where they changed the root certificate to enable inserting ads into Https - and worse still, IIRC made them the same (?) meaning anyone who figured it out could intercept any other affected-laptop-user's Https - I've felt some caution about Lenovo laptops.
That was over 8 years ago. Along with Sony's (Music division only) CD rootkit scandal was over 18 years ago now that people often like to bring up.
8 years seems a short time to go, "eh, I guess they won't do it again"
So does 18 years, for that matter, but I suppose more people have changed at the company in that time. I haven't heard about the CD rootkit scandal; what was that?!
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Microsoft’s anti-trust situation was nearly 22 years ago.
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I used to work at Lenovo's fulfillment center through a temp company. The organization of the place (or lack thereof) is a complete clusterfuck. At the time I worked there, something like 5 to 10% of their inventory was "lost", as in, it was somewhere in the building, but no one could find it since it's location is no longer in the system.
Well damn, thanks for highlighting this. Didn't even know they're still making stuff, and Fujitsu has the cheaper FMV MH for under US$1k running Ryzen CPUs too!
Didn't even know they're still making stuff,
Lenovo?
Iirc they are the biggest laptop manufacturer in the world.
Guess they aren’t selling it outside of Asia cause of some consumer laws we have.
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