If you have a Lenovo computer get rid of it

[Anonymous]

Two Asus, one Dell, one Acer (in order of newest to oldest). The Dell was the only one not to ship with bloatware, I reformatted and reinstalled Windows on the other laptops immediately after purchase. Not for any reason other than I didn't see any need to be wasting CPU cycles on background processes for any software I had no intention of using. Not a fan of Lenovo (due to their chonkiness), even less of a fan of HP (due to their history of proprietary hardware and unwillingness to provide anything past the most basic of hardware specs). Toshiba... had an AMD quad core from them a few years ago, reliable but pricey and I sold it on for $200 more than what I paid for it in the first six months after I'd bought the Dell as a replacement.





Consumer machines invariably ship with a ton of software (usually trials) from companies who offset the cost of production to entice the end user into after sales service. No matter what you purchase, there is no reason whatsoever for you to not clear all that crap out. As for stuff that gets hardcoded into the firmware... well, you'll be stuck with that if you make an ill-advised choice at the point of sale. There's only one or two Stink Pads I'd consider getting and only if I wanted a laptop capable of playing old DOS games. Lenovo blows almost as much dick as HP does. Would not recommend.

[Anonymous]

I'm still running Windows 7 Pro...  I actually built my current system myself with the last chip that would run 7 properly, on purpose.  In my case, that was an i7-6700K I utilized.



I will run my current tower as long as I need to...



So far, so good.

[Anonymous]

In my case, both the Dell and the Acer laptops were Windows 7 machines. Of the two, the Dell Precision is the newer and more rugged of the two, purchased at around the time Windows 8 was shipping. I had the option of Haswell architecture, but rumours that Intel were skimping on build quality in the absence of any real competition from AMD at the time convinced me to choose Sandy Bridge instead. As I understand, it was the last generation of CPUs which shipped with soldered heat spreaders and considering how hard I tend to run my machines, I wasn't prepared to risk a setup that might well brick itself due to the poor heat transference of substandard thermal compound on the CPU die and unwilling to try my hand at a de-lidding to replace it with anything better.



Acer and Dell are both still performing well enough on Windows 7 Home and Windows 7 Pro respectively and with minimal servicing. In the Dell's case I replaced the screen a couple of years ago, the keyboard last year and at some point I swapped the original drive out for a Samsug SSD and replaced the optical drive with a hard drive caddy and Seagate Firecuda. I'm amazed the damn thing is still spinning up to be honest, I've managed to utterly fry lesser machines in the space of two years, but this beast just keeps on trucking no matter how hard I thrash it.



I think I'll donate it to a good cause. A mate of mine recently had his recording equipment stolen and I don't see any point in letting it gather dust on the shelf.