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A friend is looking to buy a dad's day gift of a laptop in the 6-700 dollar range. He says it'll be used for photoshop, but there's no real chance of getting a decent screen at that price is there?
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Convinced my boss to buy a Yoga 2 Pro and goddamn that thing will NOT connect to our wifi network. It will connect to any other network around, but it just can't get an IP on our network at all. I spent about 4 hours on it today doing everything I could including a complete recovery and fresh boot, but nada. Manually entering an IP works, but is not a viable solution for a traveling non tech savvy person. (No other machines have trouble connecting to our wifi routers)
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Nov 15, 2013 04:59
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P.N.T.M. posted:I'm using the Intel Centrino Advanced card, and it had the same reaction to my college's wifi network. Their ITS guy had to do two things to get my laptop working: He added an encryption standard WP*something, not WPA2, and he removed Intel's wireless drivers. My card reverted to Window's drivers, and that fixed it. Thanks! I'll try those tomorrow.
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Nov 15, 2013 08:55
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So far nothing has fixed the weird Yoga 2 WiFi issue (which appears to be widespread). Someone suggested downloading the november wifi drivers here. I went to download them and they are 260 megs. Two hundred and sixty loving megs for a wifi driver???
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Nov 15, 2013 19:25
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evol262 posted:
Did you reply to the wrong person?
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Nov 15, 2013 19:32
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Well absolutely nothing will fix this WiFi issue. Just going to return it.
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Nov 15, 2013 21:42
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evol262 posted:Hint: I had a "wifi issue". It doesn't exist in Linux. It also doesn't exist if you wipe Windows and reinstall fresh without the Lenovo poo poo and use whatever drivers/settings are shipped by default in 8.1. I don't have a clean ISO file also neither do I really have time to mess with it anymore. He leaves tomorrow for a week long shoot and needs it so I'm just going to have to recommend that he return it and grab something else. Also I did a "Clean Boot" where I disabled absolutely everything but native Windows stuff (services, apps, startup apps, etc) and it still had the problem.
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Nov 15, 2013 22:24
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mmm11105 posted:Yoga 2 Pro, if you don't mind 0.61" And despite my wifi woes I'd still recommend it. That thing is insanely awesome for the short time I used it. Also holy crap a touch screen on a laptop is something I didn't realize I wanted so bad.
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Nov 16, 2013 21:09
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FISHMANPET posted:Hmmm, this looks pretty interesting. I was looking at a Dell Inspiron 17 for my mom, but it still had a dedicated GPU, which she doesn't need. This looks like it should fit the bill perfectly, doesn't seem to be any glaring problems, other than it's not a Thinkpad. My boss returned that Yoga 2 Pro (  ) and I instructed him to get this instead and I'm currently setting it up as we speak. It's a beautiful machine so far! Only drawback is that it's not super light.
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