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Re:Michael Dell buys back PC company he founded in $24.8bn deal by AmVess on Thursday September 12, 2013 @08:19PM (#6377838)
My Thinkpads all have an app that's readily available from their website that automatically updates all drivers and Lenovo apps. Not only that, but one updater works on all my different Thinkpads.

It's been this way for years.

I do a fresh install of each new laptop I get, and all I do is install the system updater, wait for it to d/l the files, wait through a few reboots, and done.

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Re:Michael Dell buys back PC company he founded in $24.8bn deal by dobbsbob on Thursday September 12, 2013 @09:59PM (#6378119)
Bonus with Lenovo is it's pre-backdoored by the Chinese government, so you don't have to worry about NSA collecting your info passively :P http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/29/lenovo_accused_backd...
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Re:Michael Dell buys back PC company he founded in $24.8bn deal by btgeekboy on Thursday September 12, 2013 @08:31PM (#6377872)
Dell also has a "scan my system" function too. But it's nice to be able to download the drivers you need on a different machine. One that has a working ethernet driver, for example.
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Re:Michael Dell buys back PC company he founded in $24.8bn deal by harrytuttle on Friday September 13, 2013 @02:22AM (#6378977)
You can do that on their web site. Just enter the bit on the bottom such as 7661-12G and it'll give you a list per os.
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