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Gamers report a BIOS update is bricking their Legion Go handhelds, and Lenovo is quoting over $250 to fix the issue outside of warranty
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als lemmy.blahaj.zone als@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-10-25
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Midnight Wolf lemmy.world wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-23
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As someone who had two ThinkServer bios updates kill the board when instructions were followed to the letter (not my first rodeo), including being plugged into a ups during the process - it was so bad that they were not even savable with the recovery flash procedure - as well as three separate ThinkPad units across 3 different product families that have issues...

  • battery longevity of less than an hour [vs advertised 12] after just a month, even after a replacement was installed; this machine sees extremely light use as a diagnostic and troubleshoot unit
  • overheating issues from a non-existent fan curve; known issue of over 1y when I purchased, still no eta on fix when returned
  • a custom build shipping out without a license key for W11 Pro, refusal to refund license cost or to supply a key; returned

...run awaaaaaay. They'd have to literally give me the unit, with the extra 5 year warranty added on, for me to evaluate if I should accept it as a gift. Absolutely no way whatsoever would I trust their products again with my money.

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lIlIlIlIlIlIl lemmy.world lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-03-31
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Well, I mean… yeah.

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ㄖㄨㄖㄙ祂 retrolemmy.com rursta@retrolemmy.com
Joined: 2026-04-24
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As someone who had two ThinkServer bios updates kill the board when instructions were followed to the letter (not my first rodeo), including being plugged into a ups during the process - it was so bad that they were not even savable with the recovery flash procedure - as well as three separate ThinkPad units across 3 different product families that have issues... battery longevity of less than ...

Damn. Addŋ 2 my ❌șop🧾

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ㄖㄨㄖㄙ祂 retrolemmy.com rursta@retrolemmy.com
Joined: 2026-04-24
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Damn. Addŋ 2 my ❌șop🧾

@Pyotr@lemmy.world boya, just burokko me
tis aint nazit

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DanceMomsSavedMe lemmy.zip DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-05-14
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Well, I mean… yeah.

It was a BIOS update on their own website encouraging you to update.

Fuck that. I hope they get sued to hell and back and have to fix all these peoples machines for free.

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