Topic: Lenovo – Ctrl blog

Linux on Lenovo ThinkPad T14: great except the webcam/mic

2020-09-08T12:00:00Z

My significant other has bought the new AMD-powered Lenovo ThinkPad T14 with Windows 10 pre-installed. The T14 is a high-end but cheap ThinkPad model with a powerful third-generation AMD Ryzen 7 processor inside. I’ve set it up with dual-booting and Fedora Linux to test how well it works out of the box.

Why my 7-year old Windows 10 laptop became unbearably slow

2019-07-17T21:10:00Z

Modern PC components, other than the battery and cooling fans, don’t degrade over time. (Correction: thermal compound does degrade over time.) So what caused my 7-year old first-generation Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptop to periodically become unbearably slow and crashy?

What is Lenovo Wi-Fi Security and should you enable or ignore it?

2018-05-23T15:08:00Z

Lenovo laptop customers with the Lenovo Vantage app for Windows 10 (preinstalled by default) are being prompted to enable a new feature called Lenovo Wi-Fi Security. Lenovo claims the feature will help protect its customers against “malicious Wi-Fi networks”. But what does the feature do? and should you bother enabling it?

Re-review of the Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro laptop/tablet hybrid 3 years later

2018-05-16T15:37:00Z

I wrote a well-received review of my Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro 1370 laptop/tablet hybrid back in 2015. Here is something you don’t see very often on the web: a follow-up review three years later of normal wear and tear.

Linux on Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 (5th generation)

2018-01-15T15:50:00Z

I installed three Linux distributions — Fedora Linux 27, openSUSE Tumbleweed, and Ubuntu 17.10 — on the Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 (5th gen.) and had a look at the out-of-the-box Linux hardware compatibility with these three distributions.