<div dir="ltr">Oh joy I have one of these lemons. What should I do with it :-(</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Alex Carver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agcarver+ale@acarver.net" target="_blank">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yes, I do recall the sale. Here at work we now only have Dell and HP<br>
(plus Sun and Apple, too.) though I think there are some areas where<br>
Lenovo-as-Thinkpad still shows up.<br>
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On 2015-02-19 11:02, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> Recall that Lenovo made all Thinkpads for IBM for years.<br>
><br>
> Hmm. Dell probably lobbied to approve the sale to Lenovo as Dell picked up the Federal laptop sales.<br>
><br>
> On February 19, 2015 1:58:17 PM EST, Alex Carver <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I do wonder if there's a slightly darker purpose for the installation<br>
>> considering Lenovo is in China.<br>
>><br>
>> On 2015-02-19 09:42, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
>>> Another good reason to NEVER USE THE INSTALLED OS.<br>
>>><br>
>>> ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS wipe the drive and install your own OS from<br>
>> known<br>
>>> good media.<br>
>>><br>
>>> But, hey! It's for windoze (l)users so it must not be a critical<br>
>>> machine.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 09:20 -0800, Alex Carver wrote:<br>
>>>> On 2015-02-19 09:17, Alex Carver wrote:<br>
>>>>><br>
>> <a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/" target="_blank">http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/</a><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> And once you read that article, read their corporate statement.<br>
>>>> <a href="http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1929" target="_blank">http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1929</a><br>
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