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The forum thread made it into a full article on Ars (which is a good summary) as someone points out later in the thread

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/lenovo...

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Wow. This is a big deal I hadn't heard of.

Coming after Superfish, this is totally unacceptable.

Leonovo is working REALLY REALLY hard to lose loyal technical customers.

Imagine doing a clean install and still finding crapware installed on your laptop. Unbelievable.

> Leonovo is working REALLY REALLY hard to lose loyal technical customers.

They already lost me after Superfish, but now with this instead of passively not buying I'm going to actively recommend that others not. It's absolutely unacceptable.

Problem is, the only decent quality machines I've ever had have been ThinkPads. I'm afraid of paying big money for a high-end machine from some other brand and having it turn out to be somewhat of a lemon.

Of course there is always Apple, which has consistently high quality, but I prefer to run Linux, so that's out.

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