My daughter was contemplating buying one of the mid range Lenevos until her research uncovered this:
Lenovo CTO admits company 'messed up,' publishes Superfish removal tool | PCWorld
We speculate whether this will be followed up by retailers, and this little bit of mischief removed by them from every machine they hold, or whether it will be up to the end purchaser to do their own removal, assuming that they even realise that it's there. Probably the retailers and the salespeople may not even know about this ...
It's being offered by a company which sells an enormous spread of products from CDs and DVDs through to TVs, cameras, guitars, most recently refrigerators and washing machines, and yes, computers. Prices and convenience of location are the big things in their favour. (For Australians it the company which makes extensive use of black on yellow in their advertising ...) Frankly the likelihood of specialist knowledge in computer specifics amongst the average staff members is likely to be pretty rare - based on my association with them.
So what to do? Buy now and take a chance on removing it as an early chore? (She's probably going to need some oversight and assistance in dealing with that - she's 1,200 km away from here). Perhaps wait a few weeks and most probably still get a machine with the crap installed anyway? Look at something else - (we both have Lenevos and they have served us well ...)
Decisions ......
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