TIL Lenovo is Fujitsu
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.
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?!
Sony’s music CDs would install a rootkit so the music couldn’t be copied
Wow, that’s awful!
Microsoft’s anti-trust situation was nearly 22 years ago.
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.
They do this when there are obvious product flaws. Nothing to see here.
Guess they aren’t selling it outside of Asia cause of some consumer laws we have.
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.
Fujitsu.
Lenovo keeps doing this. I’m still upset we didn’t get the y700.
world’s lightest laptop
Mine’s 750g