Well...I was a big Lenovo laptop supporter. I have past experience where laptops manufacturers lock their bios to prevent hardware changes. Worse case scenario was a Sony laptop that wouldn't even let you change battery, hdd, or ram (Still managed to triple booth Mac OS, Linux and Windows on it.)
So I bought a refurb Lenovo laptop and it came with faulty network card. I tested my brother Lenovo laptop which have the same network card on my router so I know it wasn't a software problem on my side.
Tried to switch the network card and the laptop refuses to even boot unless I removed the "unauthorized" card. I know about flashing modified bios to fix these type of problems, but I wasn't expected it from this company. I've always been more disappointed in their laptop build quality of late. I bought an Ideapad Y410p for my brother, I had an older model which had thick metal lid and strong plastic casing, now the current version have a super thin plastic lid and you can flex the entire chassis of the laptop without effort, something you expect from a $350 laptop.
It just put a bad taste in my mouth since I used to trust the brand. I know it's totally unrelated to Motorola, but I'm still going to watch out after this.
So I bought a refurb Lenovo laptop and it came with faulty network card. I tested my brother Lenovo laptop which have the same network card on my router so I know it wasn't a software problem on my side.
Tried to switch the network card and the laptop refuses to even boot unless I removed the "unauthorized" card. I know about flashing modified bios to fix these type of problems, but I wasn't expected it from this company. I've always been more disappointed in their laptop build quality of late. I bought an Ideapad Y410p for my brother, I had an older model which had thick metal lid and strong plastic casing, now the current version have a super thin plastic lid and you can flex the entire chassis of the laptop without effort, something you expect from a $350 laptop.
It just put a bad taste in my mouth since I used to trust the brand. I know it's totally unrelated to Motorola, but I'm still going to watch out after this.
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