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The item can be seen here: http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog...

That's a Tablet.

We do the same thing with these little lenovo machines. They charge through the nose for SSD still so we manually install them at a fraction of the cost. With most applications these days being SaaS, there's very little local storage required (although SSDs are getting very inexpensive).

Hello,

Since neither the original poster or the article provided it, here's a link to the page where the latest version of the Lenovo Solution Center can be downloaded from:

https://support.lenovo.com/us/...

Note that the downloads are listed at the bottom of the page.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Honestly, that device is almost exactly what you speficied: 17", high DPI display, options for IIRC 3 2.5" drives (or swap a 2.5" drive for two M.2 drives), loads of ports... Too bad OSX is so hard to get running on non-Apple hardware.

Huh? Theses look like normal keys to me:

https://www.lenovo.com/images/...

What does this OLED touch bar supposed to look like?

According to the source you need to update to version 3.3.002 which had been available since 2/10/2016. http://support.lenovo.com/us/e...

My corporate laptop is an HP, not a Thinkpad; . My private laptop is a Thinkpad X131e and it doesn't have this feature in BIOS/UEFI. I use Linux exclusively; it seems that this feature requires one to run a Windows program; there doesn't seem to be a Linux equivalent. I'll boot Windows some time and see if a change of battery-charging settings will carry over after a reboot into Linux, but I doubt it.

Build quality is a characteristic many people value in laptop design, but one that often goes unrepresented on a spec sheet.

The well-built laptops usually say "MIL-STD-810" on their spec sheet. Take a look at the Thinkpad spec sheets, for example.

http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/ThinkPad.pdf

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/l... before they dropped the 960M video for the cheaper 850M, was top of my list for a new laptop. But it was not sold outside the US I could find. The retailers in the US that sold it wouldn't ship it outside the US, though they normally do (Amazon, NewEgg).

Many companies try to prevent people from buying outside designates areas. They won't take my money.

So "no other industry" consists of tech, cars, and others. You have an odd definition of "no other"

Some recent Lenovo models:
http://www.lenovo.com/images/g...
http://www.lenovo.com/images/g...
http://www.lenovo.com/shop/ame...

Looks like they've switched to 'logo upright when open'. Dell, HP and Toshiba have been there for some time.

Some recent Lenovo models:
http://www.lenovo.com/images/g...
http://www.lenovo.com/images/g...
http://www.lenovo.com/shop/ame...

Looks like they've switched to 'logo upright when open'. Dell, HP and Toshiba have been there for some time.

Some recent Lenovo models:
http://www.lenovo.com/images/g...
http://www.lenovo.com/images/g...
http://www.lenovo.com/shop/ame...

Looks like they've switched to 'logo upright when open'. Dell, HP and Toshiba have been there for some time.

I run Ubuntu 15.04 just fine on an 1st gen Lenovo Helix detachable (says ThinkPad on the back).

bought it because was cheap & Arch linux guys seemed to have good luck with it. Touchscreen, pen, everything just seemed to work correctly out of the box. http://psref.lenovo.com/Produc...

LSE's only present in certain models of computer. None of the models in our ordering list are in Lenovo's list.

Does Lenovo make ANYTHING anymore that isn't full of malware?

I found one possibility, but I haven't personally checked it for malware: http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILib...

Waaaaaay ahead of you: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/l...

I've got a yoga thinkpad that can be taken apart to change the hard drive (put a spare SSD in mine), upgrade the memory or (gasp) replace the battery so the device isn't worthless in a couple years. The yoga thinkpad is only available in sizes up to 15.6" but for me 18" is too large (had an ASUS 17.3" lap monster at one point, awesome machine but never again)

I had bought an Android tablet four years ago for teaching. I like the low profile device for keeping notes without ruffling a bunch of papers around. Now the battery is so fried it only last a short time and Android updates appear to have overwhelmed the device. So I've moved to flex laptops that can do everything a tablet can, plus everything a laptop can, are still upgradeable and MS at least doesn't kill older hardware with newer OSes (at least as badly as Android seems to).

Yep My Thinkpad X250 has this and there is a bios update to fix it.

Which update are we talking about? The README for the latest BIOS update for the X250 (July 7) does not mention anything like this as far I can see.

Really? Because literally everything I've seen about it says none of the Think series are affected in any way. None of the thinkpads are listed on Lenovo's download page (and in fact the initial advisory specifically states none of the Think-branded laptops are affected).

You'd prefer this, maybe?

That abomination was the keyboard Lenovo inflicted on the world on their Thinkpad Carbon X1 (2nd. gen). This presumably was green-lit by the same Very Serious People who approved the bundling of the SuperFish on "select" laptops.

Lenovo seems to have since learned their lesson; the Carbon X1 3rd gen has a proper keyboard, and proper buttons above the touchpad.

Yeah, the Toshiba 18.3 I had was mediocre in spec, and shoddy in build quality. Though my next laptop may be a http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/l... As 17.3 is much better than 15.3, and 10-point touch. I liked the Acer R7, but they mostly abandoned the line, and never ramped up the screen size.

I want a big touch screen on my laptop, but not with sub-standard specs to go with it. The Y70 specs are good ($1300 for an i7, 16G RAM, 960M, and 1TB HD), and it's touch and a big screen.

Rumour says the PCI whitelist is no longer the case in the latest generation Thinkpad. I haven't tried it out myself personally though.
http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog...

Here's a link to the actual blog post from Lenovo. At the end the author says, "If you think Lenovo should make the retro inspired ThinkPad, or have suggestions on how to make it better, please post your comments here. We're listening."

"Workstations" are generally servers in a desktop case these days. See:
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/campa...
http://www.dell.com/us/busines...
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/w...

Dual Xeon processors, lots of RAM, capacity for lots of disks & PCIe cards.

"I doubt Lenovo even has a license to buy Xeon chips. "
What is wrong with you! Are you smoking the the crack?

Really?
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/s...
Says you are wrong.

Lenovo absolutely buys Xeon, and by the truckload for their servers and P-series workstations like this one which you can put two Xeon E5-2699v3 CPUs into, which is the highest spec part Intel makes right now.

Don't forget that they now own IBM's xSeries server business, which uses practically nothing but Xeon.

Huh http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/s....

My primary work machine, as a developer, is one of these. I work medium sized contracts and need to travel a lot. I do tons of coding in planes, airports and trains; I need to finish up demos in the taxi. I need a machine that can do coding, office and presentations. It's also nice to be able to watch a movie in the hotel.

I'm not the norm, but there's more and more folks like me out there. Frankly, Windows8 + classic shell handled my work case better than anything else I've encountered (although admittedly lots of the functionality is hidden behind eye candy and hard to discover). I am really, really hoping that Windows 10 finally makes my experience actually work.

My knowledge of computer components these days isn't that high, I typically just buy what is good enough but not too expensive. That being said, how is the Apple not overpriced vs a Lenovo? Lenovo has higher resolution (me want, my laptop has way less than that...), both have same speed processor, same memory, I prefer the 1TB HD to the 500GB SSD but I don't think giving Lenovo the SSD would bring the price up much, I think the Lenovo has a better graphics card. Prices? Lenovo under $1200, Apple almost $2500. Sorry, please to explain? http://store.apple.com/us/buy-... http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/l...

I just bought the Lenovo Edge Flex 15 and on Linux the Wifi card doesn't work, period. The only "fix" is to wait until 3.20 kernel adds support. Piece of shit OS or piece of shit Lenovo for not ensuring Linux compatibility? (Anyway, the keyboard sucks, so don't buy it)

You could upgrade the wifi card to something that works in Linux and get 802.11ac at the same time.

See page 39 of the hardware maintenance manual:
http://download.lenovo.com/con...

Just make sure you get a wifi card that is in the BIOS whitelist.
The BIOS whitelist is a list of PCI devices that have been approved by Lenovo for each laptop. If not in the list, the BIOS will refuse to boot.
This is just an imposed restriction by Lenovo, decent laptop makers don't do such a thing.

Superfish was previously included on some consumer notebook products shipped between September 2014 and February 2015 to assist customers with discovering products similar to what they are viewing. However, user feedback was not positive, and we responded quickly and decisively

What nerve!

February 20, 2015 Dear Andrew, As you may have heard, select Lenovo consumer notebooks shipped after September 2014 included Superfish Visual Discovery software as a shopping aid to customers. Superfish is a TrustE certified third-party software vendor, with offices in Palo Alto, CA. User feedback on the software was not positive and we received some reports of security concerns. Please note that Lenovo has NOT loaded this software on any ThinkPad notebooks, nor any desktops, tablets, workstations, servers or smartphones. The only impacted models are the following consumer notebook series: Z-series, Y-Series, U-Series, G-Series, S-Series, Flex-Series, Yoga, Miix and E-Series. If you use any of these Lenovo consumer models in your enterprise, please refer to the Customer Support information below. While this software does not impact the models typically used by businesses, we wanted to let you know that we take user feedback seriously at Lenovo. We know that millions of people rely on our devices every day, and it is our responsibility to deliver quality, reliability, innovation and security to each and every customer. We make every effort to provide a great user experience for our customers. We recognize that the Superfish software has caused concern. Lenovo has taken steps to address that concern. â Superfish has completely disabled server side interactions (since January) on all Lenovo products so that the software is no longer active. â Lenovo has stopped preloading the software and will not preload this software again in the future. â Lenovo has provided instructions for uninstalling this software and will soon provide a software removal patch. For more information on this, or for instructions on Superfish software removal, please visit http://support.lenovo.com/us/e.... We appreciate your confidence in Lenovo. Unsubscribe | Privacy Policy Lenovo reserves the right to alter product offerings or specifications at any time without notice. Models pictured are for illustrative purposes only. Lenovo is not responsible for typographic or photographic errors. Information advertised has no contractual effect. You are subscribed as andrew.coleman@dpw.com. To ensure delivery of Lenovo email offers to your inbox, please add lenovo@update.lenovo.com to your address book. Lenovo and the Lenovo logo are trademarks of Lenovo. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Lenovo 1009 Think Place Morrisville, NC 27560 © 2015 Lenovo. All rights reserved.

In the mean time, Lenovo made an official Statement on the 3rd Party "Experience Enhancement Software"...

http://news.lenovo.com/article...

Also listed at the end of the statement, the affected models.

G Series: G410, G510, G710, G40-70, G50-70, G40-30, G50-30, G40-45, G50-45
U Series: U330P, U430P, U330Touch, U430Touch, U530Touch
Y Series: Y430P, Y40-70, Y50-70
Z Series: Z40-75, Z50-75, Z40-70, Z50-70
S Series: S310, S410, S40-70, S415, S415Touch, S20-30, S20-30Touch
Flex Series: Flex2 14D, Flex2 15D, Flex2 14, Flex2 15, Flex2 14(BTM), Flex2 15(BTM), Flex 10
MIIX Series: MIIX2-8, MIIX2-10, MIIX2-11
YOGA Series: YOGA2Pro-13, YOGA2-13, YOGA2-11BTM, YOGA2-11HSW
E Series: E10-30

Still doesn't absolve Lenovo of failing to do proper audit/review.

http://marcrogers.org/2015/02/...

And *NOW* Lenovo is trying to CYA more by issuing a 'security advisry' for the software:

http://support.lenovo.com/us/e...

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W...

Registry entries are there even on laptops from 2011.

So this has likely been in planning stages for years.

From : http://news.lenovo.com/article...

LENOVO STATEMENT ON SUPERFISH
Superfish was previously included on some consumer notebook products shipped in a short window between September and December to help customers potentially discover interesting products while shopping. However, user feedback was not positive, and we responded quickly and decisively:

        Superfish has completely disabled server side interactions (since January) on all Lenovo products so that the product is no longer active. This disables Superfish for all products in market.
        Lenovo stopped preloading the software in January.
        We will not preload this software in the future.

does it do a complete job? somehow, I have my doubts and that it leaves some stuff behind (like almost all windows 'uninstallers').

It doesn't

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Le...

Uninstalling Superfish Visual Discovery

Go to Control Panel > Uninstall a Program
Select Visual Discovery > Uninstall
Superfish will be removed from Program Files and Program Data directories, files in user directory will stay intact for the privacy reason. Registry entry and root certificate will remain as well. The Superfish service will stop working as soon as it is uninstalled via above process, and following reboot.

And then....

This article will be updated with additional instructions on clean up of deactivated files and removal of certificate shortly.

Uh huh. Sure.

--
BMO

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Le...

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Le...

"Superfish has completely disabled server side interactions (since January) on all Lenovo products so that the product is no longer active. This disables Superfish for all products in market.
Lenovo stopped preloading the software in January.
We will not preload this software in the future."

However, later in the post they state that the root CA will remain intact. The private key has already been extracted and cracked, so this leaves Lenovo users still open to a very easy MITM attack.

Actually it was announced a few weeks back (sorry I can't find the article, maybe somebody with better Google Fu?) that Intel was stopping the Intel Atom subsidy because they were taking a bath on the things and their tablets just weren't moving. The simple fact is Intel faces the same problem Apple had with PPC on the desktop, so much of the code is written for Android ARM and too few are willing to port to X86 ARM that they just couldn't get any traction.

With Intel no longer dumping product in the channel I have a feeling sub 12 inch X86 tablets are gonna go the way of the 8 track, all you'll get is 12 inch convertibles. This is fine by me, the fact that so many 7 and 10 inch tablets still come with only 512Mb of RAM is retarded but the key is gonna be getting a decent Windows 10-12 inch convertible at a price point to really compete against the low end tablets, say $100-$150 with $100 being a Win 10 Atom dual with 2GB of RAM and $150 being the quad 2GB?

I think the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 10" is pretty compelling. There are Android (x86) and Windows 8.1 models. The Android one is $249 with a 16GB of storage and no keyboard, and the Windows one is $369 with 32GB of space and a detachable bluetooth keyboard. All the other hardware is the same between the two models- 10.1" IPS touchscreen at 1920x1200, 2GB of RAM, MicroSD slot accepting XDSC cards, and dual-band 802.11abgn.

I wanted a tablet with a high-resolution screen, 5GHz networking (2.4Ghz is completely saturated in my apartment), a proper multitasking OS, and a small form factor because I travel frequently for business. The Windows version is pretty much the perfect device for my needs. I prefer Android for phones but for a general-computing device, it isn't for me. Will something like this ever get near $100-150? I won't say it will never happen but there is a definite line between "toy" tablets with low-resolution screens, limited RAM, and poor battery life, and something that people would actually want to use on a daily basis. Despite the availability of very cheap tablets in recent years, the line between "toy" and "actually OK to use" hasn't shown any sign of getting less than $200-$250.

I really hope 8 and 10" x86 tablets stick around, because they are the perfect size for using on a plane, on the couch, or in bed. 12" is too large and heavy for my uses.

what OS cant run chrome???

With each new release, my low-powered devices get even more sluggish with Chrome. My Lenovo Tablet 10 is a speedy little tablet- everything on the tablet is fast. Except when I open up more than 4 or 5 tabs in Chrome. The memory usage and high CPU usage (when idle / not loading pages) is getting completely out of hand.

I have 4 tabs open right now -Random webpage 38mb ram, Gmail 147mb ram, Facebook 112mb ram, this window 135mb ram. Add the "GPU Process" at 195MB ram, and the "browser process" at 177MB ram, and we're up to 804MB of ram. That doesn't include any extensions. That seems ridiculous for a web browser with 4 tabs open.

I'd like to see more detailed specs than what's listed on the website. Which chipsets is it using?

Probably Intel HM87.

I'd like a more definite response than "Probably Intel HM87". Which ethernet NIC does it use? Which wifi NIC? Information like this is available for thinkpads (http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/tabook.pdf), so it also should be made available for a supposedly free and open laptop.

Seriously? Lights? That makes me think of the posers who put lights on their car's wheels.

I'm a fan of mechanical keyboards and intentionally sought one with adjustable backlighting. My Lenovo ThinkPad also features adjustable keyboard backlighting.

Both these keyboards are hugely helpful to me for the simple reason that I often use my computers in low light or darkness. This allows me to limit my exposure to light when working late, and thus avoid disrupting my circadian rhythm due to the effect of light on the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

So, yes, seriously. Lights.

But only cords supplied in 2011/12 http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/powercord2014

It only applies to cords sold in 2011 & 12 http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/powercord2014

Well, according to their recall validation website posted in the summary, there are numerous plugs from different countries that are affected (list below). You're right, it's not simple when you manage to screw up so many different cables with different plugs.

Central Europe and Asia
Africa
Japan
Taiwan
Australia/New Zealand/Fiji
South Korea
Italy
India
United Kingdom, Europe and Asia
United States and Asia
Israel
Brazil
Switzerland
Denmark
Argentina
China

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/t...

There are devices sold that have a 32 bit OS installed. For devices that will never have more than 2 GB of RAM, it makes sense to save a little bit of memory by using the 32 bit version when it is all that is needed. Granted, it won't be long before just about every device has 4GB of RAM, and we will completely lose the 32 bit build.

trying to sell a full power laptop which can have the keyboard removed (and which will likely have crappy battery life and still essentially be a PC)

Are you familiar with the Lenovo ThinkPad Helix?

Or you could buy a chromebook or one of the many android-based laptops (often tablet/laptop convertibles) or there's the dell xps developer editions which comes with linux pre-installed or Lenovo Thinkpads or failing all of that you could get a refund on the windows license if you dont want it as many people have done.

The only party with an interest in pretending Microsoft is the only game in town for pre-installed systems is Microsoft, there are in fact plenty of other options.

Lenovo were already in the smartphone market with several Android phones. In fact, they were the fifth largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, shipping 45.5 million smartphones in 2013. Looks like most of those were in emerging markets though, so the Motorola Mobility acquisition should give them a big step forward into the western markets.