Red Hat/Lenovo Collaboration Comes to Fruition with New Pre-Installed Fedora on ThinkPads 📦

1    02 Sep 2020 06:25 by u/RootHouston

5 comments

4 u/CharlieMFnMurphy 02 Sep 2020 06:35
Just a heads up, IBM no longer owns the rights to Lenovo, so if you're buying a Lenovo thinking you're getting that famed IBM Thinkpad, it's now owned by a Chinese company. They're still really great laptops though.
2 u/RootHouston [OP] 02 Sep 2020 12:06
Yeah, they're basically still riding off the coattails of American engineering. Not all of the ThinkPads are the same. The ones that are the lower-end and ultrabook-style models are more Lenovo engineered, while the higher-end models are IBM-style. It's worth noting that Lenovo does maintain a domestic presence in North Carolina, and are actually incorporated in Hong Kong, for what that's worth. They also have a presence in Japan. Lastly, the U.S. government still maintains contracts with Lenovo for their hardware I believe. Having said all of that, I still wish these were IBM laptops, and hope that IBM chooses to sell consumer products again one day.
3 u/NitroglycerinLtd 02 Sep 2020 08:58
I wonder what else it comes pre-installed with.
1 u/None 02 Sep 2020 09:09
Intel AMT, unless you get AMD.
1 u/RootHouston [OP] 02 Sep 2020 12:00
It's supposedly vanilla, with just some PDF documentation dropped in the home folder.