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Comes with the following specs:
- 4th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-4600U- i5-4200U
- 14" FHD anti-glare (1920 x 1080) or (1600 x 900)
- Intel® HD Graphics 4400
- 6-12 GB RAM
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Con Problems with the wifi when running Ubuntu
There is currently no wireless support for Realtek RTL8192EE. See the source for details and workarounds. This only applies to models of the laptop with Realtek cards. Currently available versions have Intel cards which have no problems with Linux. If you are buying second-hand, do check that the WWAN card is from Intel and not from Realtek.
Con Trackpad sucks
Trackpad is very stiff to click and makes a loud noise when you do.
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Con Lenovo is willing to install man-in-the-middle adware to get extra money
Lenovo is shipping computers preinstalled with man-in-the-middle adware called Superfish. It's a web proxy that can hijack any web session, including encrypted/https sessions. And since the root certificate is the same for everyone with private key present on the machine that's now publicly known, anyone can spoof any site to people using Lenovo laptops. Currently, it affects IE and Chrome browsers on Windows that don't have a February 20th Windows Defender update that specifically locks out Superfish and resets the certificates. Chrome is expected to push an update that will block the certificate soon as well.
Uninstalling Superfish won't remove the certificate.
Lenovo are standing by their choice to install adware.