The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out
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@Dominica and I have been talking about how this would be pretty much ideal for our girls. They use iPads now. This is cheaper and more powerful and a bit more flexible. We've been wanting to move them to Android, but the Android tablet market has been horrible. This is such a good fit, I think.
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@scottalanmiller said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@Dominica and I have been talking about how this would be pretty much ideal for our girls. They use iPads now. This is cheaper and more powerful and a bit more flexible. We've been wanting to move them to Android, but the Android tablet market has been horrible. This is such a good fit, I think.
I've been a big fan of the Asus ZenPad that I have.
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@coliver said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@scottalanmiller said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@Dominica and I have been talking about how this would be pretty much ideal for our girls. They use iPads now. This is cheaper and more powerful and a bit more flexible. We've been wanting to move them to Android, but the Android tablet market has been horrible. This is such a good fit, I think.
I've been a big fan of the Asus ZenPad that I have.
@pchiodo has one of those too and it is really nice.
Asus makes great tablets, but getting your hands on one in the US is increasingly difficult.
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ExtremeTech confirms that the Tab 10 has an SD card, too. That's the killer feature over the iPad.
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@scottalanmiller said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
This looks like a great tablet alternative. We've been wanting to move the kids off of iPads. This might make sense.
I converted two Lenovo X Yogas to run CloudReady for the girls as their schools both use Google for EDU. Saved me $500. Now I have parents asking if I have anymore of the Yogas.
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@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@scottalanmiller said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
This looks like a great tablet alternative. We've been wanting to move the kids off of iPads. This might make sense.
I converted two Lenovo X Yogas to run CloudReady for the girls as their schools both use Google for EDU. Saved me $500. Now I have parents asking if I have anymore of the Yogas.
How well does it run? We have a Yoga 2 Pro that is essentially worthless.
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It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
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@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
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@dafyre said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
Personally, I'd rather not run a Lenovo device in any form. They can't be trusted, and have had a couple remote BIOS hacks.
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@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@dafyre said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
Personally, I'd rather not run a Lenovo device in any form. They can't be trusted, and have had a couple remote BIOS hacks.
Even after all the BIOS updates that have been sent out?
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@mlnews said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
The Acer Chromebook Tab 10 has release as the first official Chrome OS tablet. The tablet includes a Wacom stylus. The new tablet can run Android apps and appears to be part of a move by Google to get the tablet market going again now that Android tablets have been fairing very poorly.
My Acer R13 is really nice in tablet mode. ChromeOS is very navigatable in tablet form. I like my Acer R13 over any tablet I have mainly for the flexibility.
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@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@dafyre said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
Personally, I'd rather not run a Lenovo device in any form. They can't be trusted, and have had a couple remote BIOS hacks.
Even after all the BIOS updates that have been sent out?
That doesn't matter when the company has proven to be so corrupt.
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@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@dafyre said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
Personally, I'd rather not run a Lenovo device in any form. They can't be trusted, and have had a couple remote BIOS hacks.
Even after all the BIOS updates that have been sent out?
That doesn't matter when the company has proven to be so corrupt.
What company hasn’t been?
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@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@dafyre said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
Personally, I'd rather not run a Lenovo device in any form. They can't be trusted, and have had a couple remote BIOS hacks.
Even after all the BIOS updates that have been sent out?
That doesn't matter when the company has proven to be so corrupt.
What company hasn’t been?
https://www.mangolassi.it/topic/14538/lenovo-if-it-s-on-your-network-you-are-breached
We can state as a fact that your network has been breached if a Lenovo device exists on it. That's the big difference between Lenovo and other companies.
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@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@dafyre said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
Personally, I'd rather not run a Lenovo device in any form. They can't be trusted, and have had a couple remote BIOS hacks.
Even after all the BIOS updates that have been sent out?
That doesn't matter when the company has proven to be so corrupt.
What company hasn’t been?
https://www.mangolassi.it/topic/14538/lenovo-if-it-s-on-your-network-you-are-breached
We can state as a fact that your network has been breached if a Lenovo device exists on it. That's the big difference between Lenovo and other companies.
You cannot quote your own tin foil hat posting as a source.
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@jaredbusch said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@dafyre said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
Personally, I'd rather not run a Lenovo device in any form. They can't be trusted, and have had a couple remote BIOS hacks.
Even after all the BIOS updates that have been sent out?
That doesn't matter when the company has proven to be so corrupt.
What company hasn’t been?
https://www.mangolassi.it/topic/14538/lenovo-if-it-s-on-your-network-you-are-breached
We can state as a fact that your network has been breached if a Lenovo device exists on it. That's the big difference between Lenovo and other companies.
You cannot quote your own tin foil hat posting as a source.
Why Not? Isn't it considered a reliable source?
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@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@dafyre said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
Personally, I'd rather not run a Lenovo device in any form. They can't be trusted, and have had a couple remote BIOS hacks.
Even after all the BIOS updates that have been sent out?
There will never be a situation where you can trust a Lenovo. You are dealing with an "enemy device". It's a situation of a malicious vendor. That they get caught and forced to publicly fix one known issue doesn't change that they are constantly trying to hide more things in more insidious places.
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@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@dafyre said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
Personally, I'd rather not run a Lenovo device in any form. They can't be trusted, and have had a couple remote BIOS hacks.
Even after all the BIOS updates that have been sent out?
That doesn't matter when the company has proven to be so corrupt.
What company hasn’t been?
There is no company in this history of IT comparable to Lenovo. None. This is a unique situation unheard of, ever.
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@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@dafyre said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
Personally, I'd rather not run a Lenovo device in any form. They can't be trusted, and have had a couple remote BIOS hacks.
Even after all the BIOS updates that have been sent out?
That doesn't matter when the company has proven to be so corrupt.
What company hasn’t been?
Can you name any IT vendor that has intentionally put malware onto machines outside of bloatware that any good IT practice would never have even seen? A single one, other than Lenovo?
The idea that "all companies are corrupt" is extremely misleading. First, it isn't true, most companies are out there trying to do a good job. Painting with such a wide brush blames the innocent.
Second, what it does that is much more dangerous is it gives a free pass to actually corrupt, evil entities to run amok because we say "oh actual evil, that's just like normal evil so we can ignore it."
It's like ignoring a real employee who is actually stealing your company secrets and selling them to your competitors because you say "all employees are corrupt" meaning that "all employees are lazy sometimes and don't work as hard as you'd like." It hides actual illegal and unethical behaviour by labeling normal work as something so evil that it all gets lumped together.
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@scottalanmiller said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@dafyre said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
Personally, I'd rather not run a Lenovo device in any form. They can't be trusted, and have had a couple remote BIOS hacks.
Even after all the BIOS updates that have been sent out?
There will never be a situation where you can trust a Lenovo. You are dealing with an "enemy device". It's a situation of a malicious vendor. That they get caught and forced to publicly fix one known issue doesn't change that they are constantly trying to hide more things in more insidious places.
@scottalanmiller said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@dafyre said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
Personally, I'd rather not run a Lenovo device in any form. They can't be trusted, and have had a couple remote BIOS hacks.
Even after all the BIOS updates that have been sent out?
That doesn't matter when the company has proven to be so corrupt.
What company hasn’t been?
There is no company in this history of IT comparable to Lenovo. None. This is a unique situation unheard of, ever.
@scottalanmiller said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@dafyre said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
Personally, I'd rather not run a Lenovo device in any form. They can't be trusted, and have had a couple remote BIOS hacks.
Even after all the BIOS updates that have been sent out?
That doesn't matter when the company has proven to be so corrupt.
What company hasn’t been?
Can you name any IT vendor that has intentionally put malware onto machines outside of bloatware that any good IT practice would never have even seen? A single one, other than Lenovo?
The idea that "all companies are corrupt" is extremely misleading. First, it isn't true, most companies are out there trying to do a good job. Painting with such a wide brush blames the innocent.
Second, what it does that is much more dangerous is it gives a free pass to actually corrupt, evil entities to run amok because we say "oh actual evil, that's just like normal evil so we can ignore it."
It's like ignoring a real employee who is actually stealing your company secrets and selling them to your competitors because you say "all employees are corrupt" meaning that "all employees are lazy sometimes and don't work as hard as you'd like." It hides actual illegal and unethical behaviour by labeling normal work as something so evil that it all gets lumped together.
I'm not saying that what Lenovo did wasn't wrong. What I am saying is that other companies could be doing things like this and haven't gotten busted or haven't been as aggressive as Lenovo was. That being said, we will not be using Lenovo as a hardware vendor again.
