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Good point but they still make best laptops IMHO. I "eat" so many Toshibas, Sonys, Acers, even two Macs with Windows 7 on it...

The nice thing is they still give you drivers even to Windows 7.

When I get new Lenovo laptop, I immediately throw away their drive, put a bigger one and install Windows 7 from scratch.

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When I get new Lenovo laptop, I immediately throw away their drive, put a bigger one and install Windows 7 from scratch.

At least for some time, this was not good enough. The shipped crap/spyware in the firmware and exploited Windows Platform Binary Table to inject their spyware into freshly installed Windows. So, even a clean disk and an official Windows CD didn't evade the spyware:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nas...

Luckily, desktop Linux/BSD is probably too obscure to be on their radar.

It is on their radar: https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2018/08/06/please-welcome-le...

That's disgusting. I wish this were illegal, because people deserve to be in jail over this.

That's incredibly abusive.

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