Find me a laptop please!

[Fred Bloggs]

cheapest i7 at JL seems to be this one at £499

Buy Lenovo Ideapad 500 Laptop, Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 1TB, 15.6" | John Lewis

I saw that one. My daughter banned me from Lenovo's on account of a couple of spates of the factory loading alleged spyware a while ago. I have had Lenovo's though and I rate them. I suspect the cheapo ASUS lappy might have been a store only clearance jobby. I usually miss out on stuff like that, but it worked out this time for me I think.

[northernladuk]

I love my 420. Had it for years. Put an SSD and it's still going strong. Well except for the 20 minute battery life. If the time comes I'll definitely be looking at a Yoga, 13 or other from them.

[DaveB]

I saw that one. My daughter banned me from Lenovo's on account of a couple of spates of the factory loading alleged spyware a while ago. I have had Lenovo's though and I rate them. I suspect the cheapo ASUS lappy might have been a store only clearance jobby. I usually miss out on stuff like that, but it worked out this time for me I think.

Might want to be careful with Lenovo's for a bit.

Lenovo scrambling to get a fix for BIOS vuln

Lenovo, and possibly other PC vendors, is exposed to a UEFI bug that can be exploited to disable firmware write-protection...
...an attacker can “disable flash write protection and infect platform firmware, disable Secure Boot, [and] bypass Virtual Secure Mode (Credential Guard, etc.) on Windows 10 Enterprise.”

[northernladuk]

Might want to be careful with Lenovo's for a bit.

Lenovo scrambling to get a fix for BIOS vuln

I bet Lenovo feel a bit aggrieved they are mentioned throughout the article. It does say HP laptops from 2010 also have the vulnerability so reading between the lines there could be quite a few more.

Interesting link though thanks.