I've bought a business Thinkpad T61 for a premium price one year ago, hoping for the best of their product line. A few weeks ago their update tool pushed a BIOS and graphics card update to fix the famous overheating issue by nvidia. What I find very disappointing is that nowhere in the update did they mention what that was for, and that as a consequence now my laptop would run the side fan almost constantly. Needless to say this made my used-to-be-quiet laptop much louder. I guess battery life is also shorter although I couldn't quantify that.
Nowhere in the internet was I able to find a reference to this update, or a formal statement to Lenovo's take in this issue. They've simply avoided talking about it, shoving to update on us and hoping that we wouldn't realize.
When I've heard about the issue I would have expected a recall and a fix. Afterall, I've paid a premium for this laptop and it's not working in the same way as when I've bought it.
I would never buy form Lenovo again. I only give companies one chance to prove their quality and Lenovo has lost it. My next one will probably HP.
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