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Lenovo issued a security bulletin Friday warning customers of two previously disclosed critical Broadcom vulnerabilities impacts 25 models of its popular ThinkPad laptops. Continue reading Lenovo Warns Critical WiFi Vulnerability Impacts Dozens of ThinkPad Models
Lenovo said nearly a dozen ThinkPad and ThinkCentre laptops contain a hardcoded password flaw. Continue reading Lenovo Fixes Hardcoded Password Flaw Impacting ThinkPad Fingerprint Scanners
It’s fair to say that fingerprints aren’t necessarily the best idea for device authentication, after all, they’re kind of everywhere. But in some cases, such as a device that never leaves your home, fingerprints are an appealing way to speed up repetitive logins. Unfortunately, fingerprint scanners aren’t exactly ubiquitous pieces of hardware yet. We wouldn’t hold out much hope for seeing a future Raspberry Pi with a fingerprint scanner sitting on top, for example.
Looking for a cheap way to add fingerprint scanning capabilities to his devices, [Nicholas] came up with a clever solution that is not only inexpensive, but …read more
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25 years ago today, IBM released its first-ever ThinkPad, the ThinkPad 700C. Happy anniversary, ThinkPad.
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I described the ThinkPad X1 Carbon as being one feature short of perfect. Well, guess what? The ThinkPad X1 Yoga fixes that problem.
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While I’ve tested my share of premium portable PCs, I’ve rarely used one as compelling as the 2017 ThinkPad X1 Carbon
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The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon is consistently among the best Ultrabooks in the market. And it looks like the 2017 rendition is upholding the tradition nicely.
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What do you do when you find a small horde of supercapacitors? The correct answer is a spectrum of dangerous devices ranging from gauss guns to quarter shrinkers. [Rinoa] had a less destructive idea: he’s replaced the battery in a laptop with a bank of supercapacitors.
The supercaps in question are 2.7 Volt, 500 Farad caps arranged in banks six for a total of about 3 watt-hours in each bank. The laptop used for this experiment is an IBM Thinkpad from around 1998. The stock battery in this laptop is sufficiently less advanced than today’s laptop batteries. Instead of using …read more
If you haven’t gone laptop shopping recently, you’re in for a big shock when you do. While the current generation of MacBook Pros is rightly torn to shreds for being an overpriced machine with a stupid gimmick of a Touch Bar, there are issues with laptops across the industry. No one has figured out how to take a high-res iPad screen and add a keyboard, most laptops with a display smaller than 13 inches are capped at 720 resolution, new features are introduced at the expense of old ones, binary blobs are cast into a web of BIOS whitelists and …read more
It’s not clear whether Lenovo actually meant to reveal its next-generation ThinkPad X1 Carbon ahead of CES. But they did, so let’s take a look.
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