You know why they shifted boxes. Systems pre-downgraded to Windows 7 and supplied with Windows 8 recovery disks for numpties who like the thing.
PC rivals weep while Lenovo dazzles with Q2 box-shifting numbers
If the HP folks in Palo Alto were hoping to see a chink in Lenovo's armour on its latest quarterly financials they will be sorely disappointed - a double-digit growth fest was banked by the Chinese dragon AGAIN today. The company has its portfolio limitations but it made the most of the sectors in which it operates to push up …
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Thursday 7th November 2013 15:55 GMT Anonymous Coward
Numpties? Fuck you!
I run windows 8 on a Lenovo ideapad, and it's actually pretty good. Works as a dev laptop in the week, runs vs 2013 and iis no worries, then it's my weekend browsing/watching videos tablet. It lasts me all weekend without recharging, works fine in touch mode or with a keyboard and touchpad, sleeps in a couple of seconds, wakes pretty much instantly. Maybe the closed minds who refuse to even consider that windows 8 might be ok are the numpties?
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Friday 8th November 2013 16:50 GMT mhenriday
Let me get this straight -
Lenovo ups «year-on-year revenues 13 per cent to $9.8bn, with pre-tax and net profit up 30 and 36 per cent respectively to $265m and $220m» and HP's Jos Brenkel claims that they've been «low-balling prices» ? After Mr Brenkel stops gazing at those high-hanging grapes, which no doubt are very sour, indeed, he might want to consider «low-balling» prices on some of HP's products....
Henri