• captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      I have an X1 Carbon Gen 9 (so a few years old now). I wanted to replace my HDD and they (Lenovo) had videons on how to do it.

      I’d say yes. But stick to ThinkPad series. I have an IdeaPad for work and I really which I told my boss to buy a ThinkPad instead. Keyboard has broken twice in 2 years.

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        27 days ago

        Yeah, its less the durability, and more the long standing security issues:

        • Firmware flaws they didn’t always patch
        • many vulnerabilities that were known
        • bundled apps that included known vulnerabilities
        • Installing software on first boot from hardware (discontinued)
        • Superfish injected ad traffic which allowed mitm attacks
        • hardware level backdoors

        So most of these things get alleviated since I always wipe new computers and put Linux on them anyways. But the repeated poor decision, security, and anti consumer practices concerns me.