Lenovo hit with lawsuit over Superfish Adware

[WYP]

Unhappy consumers have hit Lenovo with a class-action lawsuit over pre-loading the Superfish Adware on some of their consumer PCs.

Read more on Lenovo getting hit with lawsuit over Superfish Adware here.

 

[barnsley]

Its what you get for not buying a f**king thinkpad/non buisness spec laptop. They tend to be pretty bloatware free too.

As people have said with the Nvidia lawsuit this could have a knock on to other manufacturers as well, which is a good thing as some of the stuff put on laptops these days beggars belief. However, as bloatware is how most companies make more profit from laptops (as it is a low margin business) it could drive prices up, especially on lower end stuff.

That said I've worked with quite a few Lenovo products and I only really came across Superfish on lower end ultrabooks (such as the yoga 2 mentioned here). My old Yoga Pro didn't have it and that was quite an investment.

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

Lenovo laptops at least the low end ones are badly build. The cooling fans stop, hard drives stop working. I've already had 4 cases

 

[barnsley]

Lenovo laptops at least the low end ones are badly build. The cooling fans stop, hard drives stop working. I've already had 4 cases

Never buy new cheap windows laptops full stop. Always go for reconditioned ex business/even used. You can get suprisingly good stuff for the price of a new £300 budget laptop.

I have never had a lenovo laptop die on me or my family, but thats probably down to them being thinkpads.

 

[Warchild]

I'm using a Lenovo Thinkpad for work. Our IT department have murdered its performance through their closed windows updates and constant access attempts to the main network. It works slower than ever.

Also feels quite cheaply built as you state. But battery is pretty impressive at least. Don't think I would ever buy one though. then again. I am not a fan of laptops anyway. Stationary ftw!

that being said. I dropped it on the floor and it took the hit and kept on going without so much as a dent so kudos to that for sure.

 

[barnsley]

Dream laptop right there.


From what everyone says, it does seem that Lenovo don't build them like IBM did back in the day. I've never really thought about comparing an IBM and a Lenovo side by side.

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To get back on track, you'd imagine Lenovo would act more urgently/do something more as they do have a lot of juicey government/big security contracts and even though this is only on home-aimed products you'd think they would atleast do something more drastic.

 

[Arulmani]

lets see how this ends ...

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

From my experience asus and Dell make some of the most reliable laptops out there.
(On a sidenote, my 6 year old Acer netbook runs at 80C during summer and still the only thing that has been broken is some plastic that I broke because i held it clumsily)
Still most companies seem to load their product with crapware. Both laptopmakers and OEM desktop makers