greenmedic88 on 27 September 2008
All that bloatware is easily the most annoying aspect of buying a pre-configured system from a major manufacturer. Some of it's useful, but the vast majority of it is the equivalent of advertising.
The idea is that all that unwanted software is supposed to subsidize the low hardware costs, effectively being paid advertisements by the software developers who have their wares on your new computer.
It could be wiped out with a drive reformat, or a drive replacement/upgrade in tandem with a commercial copy of Windows, but... There went a chunk of savings you might have had by going with a Dell/HP/whatever.
That's one of the nicer aspects of starting with a completely clean slate that only has what the builder/user installed on it.
