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Lenovo's Chairman Says Worst is Over For PC Giant (scmp.com)
It has taken almost four years but China's Lenovo Group has begun to see some rewards from the multibillion dollar acquisitions of IBM's commodity server business and Google's Motorola Mobility smartphone unit, with the company recently regaining the crown from HP as the world's biggest personal computer (PC) maker.
From a report: The company in November posted a third, straight quarter of profit growth as its Motorola business broke even operationally and as its data centre unit posted much-reduced losses of US$3 million, allowing it to say it was on track to be a "sustainable, profitable growth engine." Chairman and chief executive Yang Yuanqing believes the worst is over for Lenovo, which has spent the past few years refocusing on mobile and smart devices, as well as its data centre services, in what the company has called an "intelligent transformation" to capitalize on the rapid growth of the internet of things (IoT) market globally, as well as the wider adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation. "Because of the past few years of laying the groundwork ... we have all the assets needed to now push ahead in the field of automation [where processes can be conducted with minimal human inputs]," he said in a recent interview.
So, you finally got your shit together just as the row of outhouses you rely on get bulldozed?
Someone is gonna get a real surprise, RSN.
Super fish. Yeah maybe you'll catch some sushi guru paying millions for it, but not for long.
Its called CEO translator. You input CEO talk and it will translate into normal english. It must be buggy atm as the above translates to nothing.
Lenovo will be out of the woods as soon as it stops stealing customers' data and copying Apple's iPhone designs.
Is there anyone making laptops with a reasonably sturdy case, and reasonably powered specs?
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Nice blog.
We will never forget Superfish, one more piece of spycraft in the Chinese government's totalitarian ambitions.
> You probably forgot price :D
> Anyway, I'm happy with my Mac Books
Yeah if it's the boss's money Macbooks are a reasonable option. Everyone on our office uses them and the only problems I've seen is when you get a bad bit in the wrong place on the RAM, you're screwed unless you paid for Apple Care. Can't replace the RAM and you can't use a kernel option to skip that byte, as you can in Linux.
One day I may get around to writing a *very simple* kernel extension to handle that. All the extension does it allocate some memory at the desired address and use it to - nothing. Just says it's using that RAM address, which means nobody else can use it. With billions of bytes of RAM, it's pretty common for a few bytes, a few addresses, to be unreliable. It's handy to be able to skip using those and use the 99.9999% of the RAM that is good.
Bad things will always be on the horizon for Lenovo so long as they continue to embed non-removable (front) batteries in their T-series laptops.
with malware like they used to? Maybe they will just put it in the BIOS so less people complain.
How can this company even be in business? After superfish why would anyone buy anything they are associated with? This was almost as bad as "rootfkit" sony. Crap. I guess they're still in business too. Right there with tobacco sellers.
Lenovo was over for me years ago when I found out they were made in China.
That's why it's a kernel extension and not an application.
The kernel is the "abstracting OS" you mentioned.
And you don't mind your company secrets being siphoned off, yes ?
You must be an ex Nortel man.
What do you buy now ?
The banksters and their friends have been shipping all electronics manufacturing jobs to China.
Was buying IBM commodity server and Google Moto. Mobility smartphone unit ever about making an immediate profit, anyway?
Why, did he resign?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I'm hoping the Lenovo is able to continue the line of IBM laptops and desktops and Motorola cell phones. They had the foresight to preserve these great lines whereas IBM and Google were shortsighted. I've bought dozens each of these for my company and they are great. Very reliable. Lenovo has continued to evolve the products in mostly positive ways (every company has a few low sellers as they experiment). The Lenovo Flex5 laptop/tablet is great for a mid-weight workhorse portable Windows machine.
static IOMemoryDescriptor * withPhysicalAddress(
IOPhysicalAddressaddress,
IOByteCountwithLength,
IODirectionwithDirection )
That kernel function accepts a physical address and returns a IOMemoryDescriptor which your module can use. In this case, the module would use it do nothing. Just to make sure nobody else uses it.
Lenovo has BIOS-coded block of WIFI module replacement, citing enforcing FCC compliance.They say HP does the same. Both are now on my do-not-buy list. My Ideapad laptop has a defective wifi, which does not work with many routers. I transferred wifi card from a dead laptop, which was simple enough, only to run into a BIOS block of non-Lenovo hardware.
Don't give your money to shitty companies like HP and Lenovo, there are plenty of other choices.
Believe what you want. I'll be over here making kenels.
I suppose you don't believe raid in Linux is real either. I'll keep building these things, and you can keep believing they aren't real.
But let me guess - you want a "Universal Basic Income", you want me to work even harder so I can pay for your assistance to sit there believing work doesn't exist. Is that about right?
You are more than welcome to go buy Microsoft.
As far as I know, the current Windows kernel doesn't have any of my code.
Well, I say you can buy it, but my guess is you don't have any money because you spend your days masturbating to Ocasio-Cortez.