Lenovo ex corp since. Never a trouble. Not one failure even through beating the crap out of them.
Wow that's an interesting statement, Lenovo are a Chinese manufacturer so it just goes to prove that Being made in China is not necessarily a bad thing after all.
China is excellent. They make things to such a high specification that no one else can beat them at the high end. What's more is they innovate way faster than everyone as they have a society which supports that through education, research and manufacturing.
But what we do is pay them to produce bottom rung shite so it can be sold with adware or ridiculous markup, then have the cheek to complain about what we asked them to make because it makes our own awful manufacturing sound better than it actually is. Customers: "These dancing flowers are shite". Some dude in China: "hahahaha we sold them 2 million dancing turds and they paid us for it ... hahaha eggs" At this point, learn Mandarin. I'm working on it. The insults are the best, even if most of them are associating you with eggs. Just remember eggs. Now I'm hungry. Edit: why dancing flowers? Was a craze in the late 1980s here and my father being an idiot shrugged off about 20 containers of them for bugger all which he could have retired on.
But let's not forget that Lenovo had an excellent base to start from when IBM sold them their PC division lock, stock, and barrel.
Agreed. My last Sony was a C1 picturebook with XP I kept in my networking bag for nuking CISCOs. It needed constant repair due to flimsy chassis/self-disconnecting internals, the proprietary RAM limited it's upgradability, and the charging circuit destroyed cells approx every 6 months. But it weighed a pound and a half in a day of 2-3kg brickbooks, and had built-in serial... When I sold it off, it brought me enough to pay for an open-box ASUS laptop I used all through college. Good riddance, and fuck that little purple POS with a shovel.
Lenovo has carved itself a good niche as a solid, everyday laptop expressly made to be as rugged as a plastic chassis (for education tier machines) can manage for corporate and educational fleet use. Their machines bought off-lease are probably the best bang-for-buck option available ANYWHERE; less than $200 gets you a 2-4 year old machine that will remain competent for daily driver use for at least a couple years. If you want to spend a little more, you can get just-last-gen hardware corporate tier machines for about twice that if you shop carefully.
Acer... I have one of their 2GB Win7 Aspire netbooks I bought because it was $20 at the Goodwill. It served my son for about a year before he discovered yooToob. Now he, his mother and my dad have 8GB Win10 Lenovos. The Aspire still works to stream Amazon Prime music.
One thing they ARE good at is cheap, large-for-the-dollar "BIC Lighter" monitors that serve well for 2-4 years before winding up in a landfill.
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