Just bought a Lenovo laptop over the weekend for my wife. Sounds to me like it's no longer being installed on the laptops, but will check it to make sure Superfish isn't there.
I'd format it with a fresh version of whatever OS came on it just to be safe. I actually have always done this when buying pre-built computers just to get rid of all the junk that comes from the manufacturer.
Well, I have a Nexus and I still see a few applications that I don't want and can't even remove. But you are right that it's a better than others I've seen.
What's worse though is that they apparently don't have any QA whatsoever since they pushed an update that made the device basically unusable (keywords: Nexus 7 2012 Android 5).
Any Android 2.x I've touched was unusable piece of .. software. I seriously don't see how they dared to sell it to people. Can't even imagine what 1.x looked like. My experience with 4.x is much better in this regard.
Excellent suggestion. I highly second that. Yes, even though more and more vendors are making that harder. For example, claiming that reinstalling the OS voids your warranty.
Because then they wouldn't benefit from the crapware they installed, so they need to disincent you.
Not running crapware is theft, just like not watching commercials is theft. The only way they can afford to sell you a PC at those prices is by subsidizing their profit with crapware income. /s
It's challenging due to multitude of vendor/model specific device drivers that are also required to computer to operate (mouse, network, wifi, usb, etc...).
Plus you need to have a separate OS license as well to make it work.
I have been Lenovo faithful for many years, although I mainly run Linux and keep a small Windows partition. I strongly recommend you reinstall Windows. Thankfully the regular Windows 7 (and presumably later) disks/USB images from Microsoft work.
The software you will want from Lenovo is their System Updater which can be installed on a fresh (non-Lenovo) Windows install, and will let you install drivers and similar software (nothing is forced, all up to you).
The one thing you won't be able to install the various pieces of crapware, but that is a benefit.