Lenovo's Chairman Says Worst is Over For PC Giant (scmp.com) 52
It has taken almost four years but China's Lenovo Group has begun to see some rewards from the multibillion dollar acquisitions of IBM's commodity server business and Google's Motorola Mobility smartphone unit, with the company recently regaining the crown from HP as the world's biggest personal computer (PC) maker.
From a report: The company in November posted a third, straight quarter of profit growth as its Motorola business broke even operationally and as its data centre unit posted much-reduced losses of US$3 million, allowing it to say it was on track to be a "sustainable, profitable growth engine." Chairman and chief executive Yang Yuanqing believes the worst is over for Lenovo, which has spent the past few years refocusing on mobile and smart devices, as well as its data centre services, in what the company has called an "intelligent transformation" to capitalize on the rapid growth of the internet of things (IoT) market globally, as well as the wider adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation. "Because of the past few years of laying the groundwork ... we have all the assets needed to now push ahead in the field of automation [where processes can be conducted with minimal human inputs]," he said in a recent interview.
Wow. dat ass. so dumb (Score:1)
Someone is gonna get a real surprise, RSN.
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Nice blog.
That's easy!!! (Score:5, Insightful)
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It's funny you mention about stealing designs. Lenovo ran a survey on doing their 25th year anniversary thinkpad, where users overwhelmingly told them they want certain features. While they did honour the 7 row keyboard of old, another one was against using their awful 16:9 displays. They just couldn't help themselves. Users preferred 16:10 or the newer 3:2 aspect ratio, but they stuck with 16:9, all in a really premium price point.
Too ignorant to even do what their customers overwhelmingly tell them!
laptops (Score:2)
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You probably forgot price :D ... except when I have to make a rebuild of a big software project and it is only half as fast as linux box for half the price with 8 times the computing power ... and no, modern builds are not io bound ... well, most of the build time are the unit and integration tests anyway.
Anyway, I'm happy with my Mac Books (also the Air)
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You probably forgot price :D
I'm happy to pay for quality. Macs are solid construction, but underpowered (also, the super bar is weird).
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I have been neutral on Macs. Right now, I am not very pleased at the fact that Macs do not allow you to install Linux on the internal SSD, even with T2 chip security off. No, installing VMWare in Windows or macOS isn't a long term answer, especially once Apple discontinues macOS support for that model.
My next laptop, I probably would recommend Dell Latitudes, with a decent service level. More expensive than the Best Buy special, less expensive than a Mac, and can be purchased with a five year warranty.
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I have been neutral on Macs. Right now, I am not very pleased at the fact that Macs do not allow you to install Linux on the internal SSD, even with T2 chip security off. ...
Try a Chromebook. They run Android and there is beta steam that installs Linux natively. My HP Chromebook X2 runs OpenOffice and GIMP, that were installed with a sudo app-get install, The only problem at present is the scaling of the fonts in the windows but that's being addressed.
And replaceable RAM or Linux (Score:4, Interesting)
> You probably forgot price :D
> Anyway, I'm happy with my Mac Books
Yeah if it's the boss's money Macbooks are a reasonable option. Everyone on our office uses them and the only problems I've seen is when you get a bad bit in the wrong place on the RAM, you're screwed unless you paid for Apple Care. Can't replace the RAM and you can't use a kernel option to skip that byte, as you can in Linux.
One day I may get around to writing a *very simple* kernel extension to handle that. All the extension does it allocate some memory at the desired address and use it to - nothing. Just says it's using that RAM address, which means nobody else can use it. With billions of bytes of RAM, it's pretty common for a few bytes, a few addresses, to be unreliable. It's handy to be able to skip using those and use the 99.9999% of the RAM that is good.
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Well, this on assumption that system allows direct access and allocation of the memory, not relying on appropriate function (and isolation) of the abstracting OS.
Missed the words "kernel extension" (Score:2)
That's why it's a kernel extension and not an application.
The kernel is the "abstracting OS" you mentioned.
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No, I haven't. Without proof, I would not assume straight there is no memory handling layer even for the purpose of the kernel extension MODULE.
The function is called withPhysicalAddress (Score:2)
static IOMemoryDescriptor * withPhysicalAddress(
IOPhysicalAddressaddress,
IOByteCountwithLength,
IODirectionwithDirection )
That kernel function accepts a physical address and returns a IOMemoryDescriptor which your module can use. In this case, the module would use it do nothing. Just to make sure nobody else uses it.
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You expect building DESCRIPTOR to book that physical memory for you. Not yet convinced. But, then, I really have no fluence with this something I do not use.
Believe what you want (Score:2)
Believe what you want. I'll be over here making kenels.
I suppose you don't believe raid in Linux is real either. I'll keep building these things, and you can keep believing they aren't real.
But let me guess - you want a "Universal Basic Income", you want me to work even harder so I can pay for your assistance to sit there believing work doesn't exist. Is that about right?
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Hope not to deal with the kernels you'd make, as you cannot be wise, being insensitive arrogant dude, talking nonsense.
Then you are welcome to buy Microsoft (Score:2)
You are more than welcome to go buy Microsoft.
As far as I know, the current Windows kernel doesn't have any of my code.
Well, I say you can buy it, but my guess is you don't have any money because you spend your days masturbating to Ocasio-Cortez.
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Superfish - Never Forget (Score:1)
We will never forget Superfish, one more piece of spycraft in the Chinese government's totalitarian ambitions.
Not quite (Score:1)
Bad things will always be on the horizon for Lenovo so long as they continue to embed non-removable (front) batteries in their T-series laptops.
The worst is over? (Score:2)
Why, did he resign?