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I mean: I try to get into the BIOS, and I'm asked to enter a password, which I've not been given. Never had this problem with any other computer company.

I thought it might just be the dodgy vendor I got it from, but my girlfriend ordered a Twist from the official Lenovo site, and has the same issue. Which, because she's in the brave new Win8 SecureBoot era, stops her from installing an OS she hates less than Win8.

Unless either of us are prepared to spend hours on tech support being passed around, anyways.

Shame, as the machines are nice. You can't beat a good keyboard... I'm all for being secure, but I would like it if my computer didn't presumptively consider me to be an attack vector.



That's kind of weird that Lenovo would do that with the BIOS password thing. I've owned a few Lenovos and it would put me off getting another one.


Wow, I couldn't believe this would actually be the case. Thanks for the info!




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