Comments by "ChineseKiwi" (@ChineseKiwi) on "Lenovo - The Last Practical Electronics Maker" video.

  1. Yep, best time to buy new Thinkpads is actually now around Jan / Feb as they clear out last year’s models. Massive discounts thus value.
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  2. No, it depends on aspect. This isn’t the mid 2010s anymore. No one cares about Android vs Apple anymore.
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  3. Even their lower end Thinkpads use higher end Samsung / Western Digital NVM-e SSDs however (depends on batch which one but both are higher end) 😂
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  4. That takes precious product development time and budget though
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  5. Watch Techaltar’s video on how Lenovo is structured differently thus is different from other Chinese companies
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  6. We use Lenovo Thinkpads for our business laptops - they have all the things a regular office worker actually wants - super light, great quality screen, fantastic quality laptop keyboard (underrated feature) and even the small things such as a privacy shutter for the webcam and on the admin / setup side, most, if not all, of the firmware / BIOS and driver updates you can get and installs easily via Windows Update without third party software needed. And with say the X10 Carbons, they actually have very good higher end NVM-e SSDs as standard as well. They didn’t cheap out on that! And their accidental damage cover (because staff are clumsy) is dirt cheap per laptop and makes total sense on a service level agreement perspective to have it. Even their non Thinkpads are great. Our GFX design team has powerful Lenovo laptops that are better spec than my gaming rig 😂 😅😢 (jealous) That said, it is advisable to update the BIOS and other drivers with them often as it fixes a lot of bugs your BAU support team may encounter. They on a SLA value perspective, are by far the best value. Dell’s business SLA support may be the very best, but you are paying through the roof for that vs the likes of Lenovo. To others: This is why you see offices or companies using one brand of everything like monitors and laptops etc… service level agreements or SLAs
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  7. The Pixel is terrible due to its constant software issues - ironic because it’s Google but that is what put me off them. I chose the iPhone from an Android for actual practical reasons - it was the only ‘flagship’ smartphone I could hold easily with one hand, I know the software won’t shit itself with an update and it does as an all round package, generally everything well without a dealbreaker of any sort. There are ways around the walled garden (e.g. iDrive is FAR cheaper than iCloud) and even then, there are things within the walled garden that are nice - Apple Music as a standalone product is much superior to Spotify in a number of ways for example.
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