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Of course, source aside, if you want a $300 laptop then you'll get the low build-quality, plastic-fantastic piece of spyware-riddled crap you pay for. If you're
by nly 11y ago
Of course, source aside, if you want a $300 laptop then you'll get the low build-quality, plastic-fantastic piece of spyware-riddled crap you pay for. If you're paying a premium, for a product range where reputation and quality actually matters, you stand a better chance. Unfortunately in the current laptop market, imho, that means paying a minimum of $1000, with low-end Apple prices being preferable.
Dells business range isn't so bad. I bought a Latitude in January of last year and, although it had some superfluous fluff bundled with it, it was lean enough that I didn't bother to format and reinstall from scratch (although I dual boot). I previously bought a Lenovo ThinkPad for more and returned it because the depressing build quality (I don't remember much about the bundled software because it simple doesn't factor in to my purchasing decisions).
I think the fact that this spyware was found on a refurbed ThinkPad shows just how far the brand has fallen.
- kuschku 11y agoThe 700€ Thinkpads also are free of spyware or any preinstalled such software. So, it is possible.
- scott_karana 11y ago> The 700€ Thinkpads also are free of spyware or any preinstalled such software. So, it is possible. The machine in this article is a Thinkpad.
- superuser2 11y agoWhen you buy Thinkpads, the people who wrote the spyware and made the decision to preinstall it get to continue eating.
- rayiner 11y agoGot a brand new T450s this year, and it was chock-full of crap to the point of being nearly unusable.
- kuschku 11y agoI got a brand new E540 last year, and it had no spyware, nothing.