EvaUnit02 on 13/8/2009 at 13:32
Protip: You can disable the Sidebar and you don't have to use Gadgets.
Also unless you're buying a laptop or similar computer, where wiping the HDD could void your warranty, you have nobody to blame but yourself if you knowingly buy a pre-made desktop PC (usually an over-priced clunker, made from the cheapest generic parts and crammed into a case with bad ventilation) from the likes of Dell or HP. These large corporate PC makers stopped doing OEM Windows installation discs years ago, now you only get recovery discs or hidden partitions with an OS ghost image.
jay pettitt on 13/8/2009 at 14:43
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you have nobody to blame but yourself if you knowingly buy a pre-made desktop PC
I'm sure that will be of comfort to millions of people.
EvaUnit02 on 13/8/2009 at 15:16
I was talking addressing people like you, as in the tech saavy consumer who tend to do their homework beforehand. If you knowingly bought a Dell shitbox with a bloatware infested OS, then you're fool and deserve every single drip of egg that's running down your face.
Somebody's barely computer literate parent or whatever who only uses it for email, word processing and Skype is excused.
Renzatic on 13/8/2009 at 16:00
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
I was talking addressing people like you, as in the tech saavy consumer who tend to do their homework beforehand. If you knowingly bought a Dell shitbox with a bloatware infested OS, then you're fool and deserve every single drip of egg that's running down your face.
A bit unfair, considering half the people out buying a computer right now don't have even a half assed idea of what to look for in a machine. For them, their only chance at homework is a Best Buy tech rep who will sell them crap in a box and tell them it's gold for the commission.
As for what Jay's saying, I have to agree, though I fault of OEMs than MS. It's not their fault that Dell and the like throw so much excess bloat on top of Windows it'd bog down even the latest greatest fastest computer out right now. Hell, while I'm at it, I'll blame the manufacturers of all these overly bloated utility apps. Why the hell is Nero almost a full gig in size? Why does Norton consume so much resources when other
free virus scanners do the same thing with nary a hitch? Why does HP need to include their proprietary backup software that doesn't even work a quarter of the time and takes 10 hours to do the simplest thing?
The whole OEM computer scene is a complete clusterfuck at the moment. For all intents and purposes, all they need to get a grandma up and running happily is install the drivers and slap Avast and IMGBurn on there. No constant popups, no "easy to use" overlays that don't do anything but confuse the very people they're supposed to help, no nothing...just Windows and a couple of streamlined utilities.
You know, kinda like how Macs come out of the box.
Ulukai on 13/8/2009 at 16:37
I've now running the Windows 7 RTM, thanks to my MSDN subscription.
No problems so far, other than with iTunes which did dabble in a little faghattery the first time I synched my phone.
Other than that, I'm well pleased with it.
Aja on 13/8/2009 at 17:47
Where on earth does it say reformatting your dell voids the warranty? That was the first thing I did when I got mine, and it's absolutely possible, using the discs dell provides, to install windows without any of the dell software.
Aerothorn on 13/8/2009 at 17:57
Recently I tried to donate an old (but still fully functional and decently fast) Dell computer to a thrift store. The "re-install" disk they gave me didn't work, and I ended up having to buy a new copy of Windows to put on it :(
