| Mistershine said: it takes about an hour to clean it off. |
You hour must have ~500 minutes?
My laptop (Packard Bell from PC World) had a free trial of Norton antivirus on it and I couldn't uninstall it, I took it in to PC World and they said they couldn't take it off... I had to just let it run for the 90 days before installing another antivirus.
What next? Pay $10 bucks extra for a version of the same music CD with no rootkits on it?
| 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 |
People like this are why so many companies can pull the crap they do and still succeed.
LOL I basically do this to all my friends PC for free. Seems dumb to charge $50 for adding a bunch of crap that will make your computer alot slower then it should be. I guess their resoning would be the laptop is $50 cheaper because we added all this crap so is actually a savings. Kind of like In-Game Ads was supposed to lower game cost. Of course people who don't know any better will say is just $50 or quite a frankly a Wii game.
Galaki said:
You hour must have ~500 minutes? |
I didn't include the 7 hours it takes to finish installing the shit in the first place. Seriously, I had to setup a HP for someone the other day and in the time it took to sort itself out I had installed a router, ran and made off 3 network cables and setup file and print sharing between 3 other PCs and I still had to wait about 20 mins for it to finish its recovery partition setup. I could have wiped and reloaded it in less time.
this isn't really off-topic is it?
EDIT: also, I have trouble with sony. I got the psp software manager, it sucks a**!!!! and after I got it, they release a new version later and they didn't even release a patch for the old version!
And that's the only thing I need is *this*. I don't need this or this. Just this PS4... And this gaming PC. - The PS4 and the Gaming PC and that's all I need... And this Xbox 360. - The PS4, the Gaming PC, and the Xbox 360, and that's all I need... And these PS3's. - The PS4, and these PS3's, and the Gaming PC, and the Xbox 360... And this Nintendo DS. - The PS4, this Xbox 360, and the Gaming PC, and the PS3's, and that's all *I* need. And that's *all* I need too. I don't need one other thing, not one... I need this. - The Gaming PC and PS4, and Xbox 360, and thePS3's . Well what are you looking at? What do you think I'm some kind of a jerk or something! - And this. That's all I need.
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| 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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I certainly understand where your coming from Jason, and I do agree that most companies put tons of crap on their PC's when they ship them out...Ive had Dell's, Compaq's, Quantex, Gateway 2000, and of course Sony...Every single one of them put the most useless junk on their machines
Its annoying, but like I said, you can easily remove it, reinstall windows, or do whatever you want...Its not that hard.
I wish these manufactures just gave you the Installation CD's to their software, and allow you to CHOOSE to install it :(
O well, if you dont know how to uninstall a program, your the perfect sucker for their $50
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