Hacker News with Generative AI: Lenovo

Google contract prevented Motorola from setting Perplexity as default assistant (bloomberg.com)
Google’s contract with Lenovo Group Ltd.’s Motorola blocked the smartphone maker from setting Perplexity AI as the default assistant on its new devices, an executive of the startup testified at the search giant’s antitrust trial.

Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Devices, Google, Lenovo

253 points by welpandthen 3 days ago | 195 comments

Lenovo joins growing China exodus as manufacturers flee US tariffs (tomshardware.com)

Lenovo, China, Tariffs, Manufacturing, Business

6 points by thunderbong 49 days ago | 1 comments

The TrackPoint Is Safe (laptopretrospective.com)
The TrackPoint may leave ThinkPad one day, but it isn’t today.

Technology, Hardware, Laptops, Lenovo, ThinkPad

7 points by walterbell 96 days ago | 1 comments

Lenovo has removed the TrackPoint nub from new ThinkPad laptops (pcworld.com)
For more than three decades, the TrackPoint’s iconic red rubbery nub has been a staple of IBM and Lenovo ThinkPad laptops. But now, no longer. Lenovo has removed its famous TrackPoint from its latest ThinkPad laptops, calling it time for a change.

Lenovo, ThinkPad, Laptops, Design, Technology

118 points by taimurkazmi 97 days ago | 140 comments

SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck (arstechnica.com)
Almost exactly a year ago, we were publicly yearning for the day when more portable gaming PC makers could ditch Windows in favor of SteamOS (without having to resort to touchy unofficial workarounds). Now, that day has finally come, with Lenovo announcing the upcoming Legion Go S as the first non-Valve handheld to come with an officially licensed copy of SteamOS preinstalled.

Gaming, Steam, Operating Systems, Handheld Gaming, Lenovo

20 points by infotainment 108 days ago | 2 comments

Lenovo Officially Announces the Legion Go S Handheld with SteamOS (phoronix.com)
Following weeks of rumors, today at CES in Las Vegas as part of debuting other new wares, Lenovo introduced the Legion Go S handheld gaming console option that is officially licensed by Valve for SteamOS...

Gaming, Hardware, SteamOS, Lenovo, Handheld Consoles

89 points by leidenfrost 109 days ago | 88 comments

New ThinkPad X9 comes without TrackPoint (twitter.com)

Laptops, Hardware, Lenovo

25 points by aquir 117 days ago | 22 comments

Lenovo might soon announce a SteamOS handheld (theverge.com)
Valve revealed earlier this year that it will support the ROG Ally handheld with its Steam Deck operating system, and now it looks like Lenovo will soon have its own SteamOS handheld, too.

Gaming, Hardware, SteamOS, Lenovo, Valve

5 points by tosh 134 days ago | 0 comments

Lenovo Has a CXL Memory Monster with 128x 128GB DDR5 DIMMs (servethehome.com)
At OCP Summit 2024, we saw one more CXL monster, the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR860 V3. This system is listed on Lenovo’s website as having “Up to 16TB of TruDDR5 memory in 64x slots.” At the OCP Summit 2024, we saw this beast and how Lenovo is doing it with the help of CXL and Astera Labs Leo.

Memory, Hardware, Servers, CXL, Lenovo

28 points by addaon 157 days ago | 17 comments

TinySecrets: Technical information about small Lenovo PCs (github.com/a-little-wifi)
Here is my research with as many technical details about Lenovo's small PCs as I can find There's some interesting modding opportunities that haven't been explored yet as far as I can tell, and I don't have access to most of the hardware to try it myself

Hardware, Lenovo, Modding, PCs, Technical Information

21 points by transpute 208 days ago | 1 comments

Is Lenovo a blind spot in US anti-China security measures? (theregister.com)

Lenovo, Security, China, US Politics

12 points by rntn 255 days ago | 1 comments

Lenovo and Micron first to implement LPCAMM2 in laptop (theregister.com)

Hardware, Laptops, Memory, Technology, Lenovo

11 points by LorenDB 367 days ago | 2 comments

Hackable Intel and Lenovo hardware went undetected for 5 years (arstechnica.com)

Security, Hardware, Intel, Lenovo, Vulnerability

33 points by tmalsburg2 380 days ago | 12 comments