<story><title>Lenovo: researchers find &apos;massive security risk&apos;</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32607618</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pXMzR2A</author><text>&amp;gt; opening the box was unscrew the case and change the drive for an SSD&lt;p&gt;Does that not void the warranty?</text></item><item><author>dheera</author><text>In my case, when I received my Lenovo the first thing I did after opening the box was unscrew the case and change the drive for an SSD. Before even powering it on once. But yeah, if I used the default HDD, I&amp;#x27;d at least reformat it first thing. I&amp;#x27;m a Linux user though, so I&amp;#x27;d have to reformat it anyway, but I&amp;#x27;d still reformat it even if I were a Windows user.&lt;p&gt;Microsoft, Google, Apple, Ubuntu, et al. all make decent OSes that are designed to, um, work. I don&amp;#x27;t get why manufacturers don&amp;#x27;t get this simple fact and always have to tamper with stuff. For the less-technical people out there, can&amp;#x27;t we have a &amp;quot;Nexus&amp;quot; sort of PC manufacturer who prides themselves in selling with ONLY vanilla OSes and as-standard-as-possible hardware components?</text></item><item><author>orthecreedence</author><text>It seems from the article that the best way to handle this is to uninstall all the trash that comes with a new computer (or hell, reinstall windows from scratch). Do I need Lenovo&amp;#x27;s power management tools? No. Do I need its Wifi connection manager? No. Windows has all this stuff already and it works really, really well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ptaipale</author><text>This might depend on country, but in most countries that have some consumer protection, replacing a hard disk and similar reasonable operations are considered to be normal use of the machine, and the consumer law says that the consumer may not be prevented from doing this.&lt;p&gt;When the customer is not a consumer but a company, then things might be different (companies may be able to give away their rights in a way that consumers may not).&lt;p&gt;In EU countries, a manufacturer may offer a warranty, but this is just supposed to be an extra service; the seller is at least required to provide defect liability (i.e. a device must fixed if broken when it is sold and it must last for a reasonable time in reasonable use).</text></comment>
<story><title>Lenovo: researchers find &apos;massive security risk&apos;</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32607618</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pXMzR2A</author><text>&amp;gt; opening the box was unscrew the case and change the drive for an SSD&lt;p&gt;Does that not void the warranty?</text></item><item><author>dheera</author><text>In my case, when I received my Lenovo the first thing I did after opening the box was unscrew the case and change the drive for an SSD. Before even powering it on once. But yeah, if I used the default HDD, I&amp;#x27;d at least reformat it first thing. I&amp;#x27;m a Linux user though, so I&amp;#x27;d have to reformat it anyway, but I&amp;#x27;d still reformat it even if I were a Windows user.&lt;p&gt;Microsoft, Google, Apple, Ubuntu, et al. all make decent OSes that are designed to, um, work. I don&amp;#x27;t get why manufacturers don&amp;#x27;t get this simple fact and always have to tamper with stuff. For the less-technical people out there, can&amp;#x27;t we have a &amp;quot;Nexus&amp;quot; sort of PC manufacturer who prides themselves in selling with ONLY vanilla OSes and as-standard-as-possible hardware components?</text></item><item><author>orthecreedence</author><text>It seems from the article that the best way to handle this is to uninstall all the trash that comes with a new computer (or hell, reinstall windows from scratch). Do I need Lenovo&amp;#x27;s power management tools? No. Do I need its Wifi connection manager? No. Windows has all this stuff already and it works really, really well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mikeb85</author><text>Depends on the laptop.  Often &amp;#x27;Lenovo&amp;#x27; translates to &amp;#x27;ThinkPad&amp;#x27;, where nearly every component is meant to be accessible and easy to switch out.</text></comment>