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Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A new, thinner XPS 13 is also coming later this year.

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[–] 11 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Lenovo is about as good as you getting for a mainstream brand, and they are ultimately owned by the CCP so meh.

In addition to being owned by the CCP, they purposely installed rootkits on consumer hardware for intense data gathering, and it ended up getting compromised.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

    I dont use factory installed images from anybody, mostly because of this shit. I also dont use windows, not that I would trust a factory installed Linux either

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Didn't the superfish certificate install itself from UEFI even if you used your own windows image?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Really? Where you read that?

    What I remember it was an app you could uninstall and then you had to clean up the certificate install. It was part of the factory image and would get installed as part of that. Lenovo provided instructions to remove it.

    But again, I don't use factory images or windows.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Looking it up I cant seem to find it, so I might be wrong. It may not have been lenovo but I remember news years ago about some OEM getting caught doing that.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Yeah I am pretty certain you are tbh, I think you mixing up uefi certificate updates with root kits that are part of the factory image or other installed bloatware from the manufacturer.

    Now if you were talking about vpro or other low level management I could believe it, but thats intel and avoidable...

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