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by nowherecat 3125 days ago
Nice. Now I'd love to see Lenovo offer Thinkpads with a factory disabled Intel ME.
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gravypod 3125 days ago
While we're at it... maybe provide Linux (Ubuntu?) as the default operating system? If we're feeling really lucky we might do with asking them for the original Thinkpad keyboards back.

That would be a dream computer.

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chx 3125 days ago
A short time before Lenovo wrote the first Retro blog posts, so in the beginning of 2015 I posted my dream laptop to Quora. https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-ThinkPad-dream-machine-sp...

The 25th Anniversary laptop got close but because it's T470 based so there's only a single, crippled Thunderbolt in there and it's slightly heavier.

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waiseristy 3125 days ago
It is that hard to install Ubuntu and dual boot? It's really handy to have that extra windows license from the factory
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confounded 3125 days ago
It’s about as easy to dual boot as it is to just run a popular distro. Wifi cards etc can still be a problem, regardless.

I’d rather not have anything to do with Windows, and would appreciate the gesture of a discount for the Windows license (and the money not going to MS).

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gravypod 3124 days ago
I second not wanting any money going to microsoft. I'll take it a step further and say I don't want any microsoft code, branding, stickers, or keys at all no matter how "free" they are.

just kick $10 off my price tag and I'll be happy. If you just sell me an empty shell (no disk or ram) which I'll be over charged for I'll be even happier.

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