| MattAAron said: I have that Sony Vaio TZ Series in the article above, typing from it now... Don't see why $50 is such a big deal to make a news item? PC companies do this all the time with their 'Recovery DVD's', which reinstalls/formats your entire computer back to the original factory settings I have bought these DVD's for both this Sony Laptop, and my other Sony VAIO PC... For me spending $50 for something like this is nothing to the $3,000+ it cost for the laptop, $50 is the least of my worries... I guess im the minority here Edit: Read the article wrong, guess this is a charge 'before' they ship it out to you...to remove everything they put on...I can see how people would get pretty annoyed by this, but still, certainly not a huge problem to hit news sites everywhere? And its not hard to just simply remove the software when u get the laptop...If someone doesn't know how to do this, then they diserve to be a sucker for $50 |
The point is that the amount of bloatware shouldn't be on there to begin with. And on top of that they should not be charging you for removing something that's not even supposed to be there. I largely considered getting a Vaio laptop as my current machine but opted out mainly due to price at the time. My father-in-law got a budget CR series for X-mas and I was absolutely amazed at the amount of garbage on the machine. I had an HP previously and it was bad but not as bad as the Vaio I used.
After shopping around I ended up with a Dell and was expecting a hoard of bloatware but they really improved lately and there wasn't much to clear off. I still wish there was none to remove in the first place but it was definatly an improvement over the HP and especially the Vaio.
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