Rainer Feike techblog

I had my Samsung T10 now for three years, I was at all satisfied with the machine (put 1.5GB in it) but I wanted a Intel Duo CPU now - specially for eclipse development.

So I bought the new IBM Lenovo Z61m with a Core2Duo T7200, 2×2GHz and 2 GB memory. And I am not really glad about that. Other than expected, the laptop is terrible slow. The identification with the fingerprint reader is close to be useless. Lot’s of annoying “free software” that’s pre-installed is pulling on my nerves - at all, I don’t know what the system is doing all the time (looking at the Task Manager tells that it’s idle). Another point that’s bad done is the WLAN installation with lot’s of tiers in the TCP/IP setup that do who ever knows what - but don’t establish stable network connections.
The WLAN requests “hang” very often. I.e. when browsing nothing happens until I load another page on another tab or in another browser. Now I am browsing with a permanent ping in a DOS shell -> the “hang” is gone - well done!

Next bad point is the Think-Software, meaning the software that pops up when you press the “ThinkVantage” button. For example the “Travel Manager”. That piece of software thinks it nows what you want to do when you change from pure to docking station. But it does not. It kills your suspended session when you put the Lenovo in the docking station. Please, what is this for? Not talking about the Display Manager when changing between external monitors…

I am really not amused!
And on and on. Currently I am loading a bios update that was suggested by the “ThinkVantage” …

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