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http://www.itworld.com/article/2875112/ibm-is-about-to-get-hit-with-a-massive-reorg-and-layoffs.html
From the article, "IBM is expected to go through a massive reorg next month that will reportedly see 26% of its 430,000-strong work force let go, or 111,800 people. If that figure holds true, that would make it far and away the largest corporate layoff event in history, breaking the record previously held by IBM, when it cut 60,000 in 1993."
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IBM "Expected to Cut 26% of Workforce with over 111,000 Layoffs"
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I'm EMOTIONAL now because I have MERCHANDISING CLOUT!!
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Monday January 26 2015, @10:58PM
on my t420, there is a plastic barrier to avoid spills and dust/dirt. I have not seen that before on typical consumer laptops.
thinkpads (some of them) can be found with 3 button mice. reminds me of the old sparcbooks and tadpoles that had 3 button 'unix mice' back when pc's were still all 2 button based.
BUT - beware of the blacklist bios! hp and lenovo both blacklist common pci-e cards (like wifi, sometimes even ssd!) and for me to upgrade to 802.11ac, even using the exact same intel centrino wifi lenovo would have used, it refused to boot; so I had to go rogue and use a downloaded hacked bios that had its blacklist removed. I can't fully trust this bios (who knows what was done to it, really) but I can use any card I want, now. I did not know of this hp/lenovo blacklist before I bought it. I would probably pass on lenovo for this very feature unless you are happy buying THEIR preconfigured hardware and never adding your own pci-e cards, etc, in.
I'll end on a good note (lol): the media bay can take spare batteries, opto drives OR hd drive caddy/trays, so you can have lots of choice on what the media bay is used for. the old NEC versa books were like this and not too many follow this idea. lenovo still has models that use media bay 'modules' and its a really cool feature to have. to save weight, I put an empty hdd tray in my media bay; keeps dirt out, saves my opto burner (no banging around while on the road) and saves weight, too.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Tuesday January 27 2015, @05:16AM
Yeah, the blacklist is some pretty harsh bullshit. I had to find a hacked bios for mine for a new wireless card for OSX, which caused me no small amount of worry. On a hunch, I opened it up with a hex editor and only found a byte or two modified from the same version bios downloaded from Lenovo, which makes me think that it either legitimately just flipped some logic on the blacklist or jumped past the check completely... or they turned on the already built in Lenovo spying mechanisms. The former being fine, and, well, I had to buy the laptop with the premise I was trusting Lenovo to some degree. I doubt much more could have been snuck in with so few changes.
Still gives me the creeps though. Everything works great, but I'm not feeding the damn thing my SSN anytime soon.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!