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My anecdotal evidence points the other way. My own Ho dv6 gave me a good 4 years of running. - Yes, the crapware is unavoidable. but who doesn't ship with tha
by xerophyte12932 11y ago
My anecdotal evidence points the other way. My own Ho dv6 gave me a good 4 years of running.
- Yes, the crapware is unavoidable. but who doesn't ship with that?
- For me the system restore worked like magic. I tried it a bunch of times on my own machine and those of some friends. The machine was virgin again with just a click of a button.
- It's also very easy to get into. Very helpfully labeled; tons of guides available online. It's like its designed to be opened and hacked around. When it finally died, I scavenged it for parts and ported to my new desktop machine
- dtech 11y ago> Yes, the crapware is unavoidable. but who doesn't ship with that? Well Apple for one (unless you count their superfluous apps, but I find those much less intrusive) I think the crapware is inexcusable. If almost every car manufacturer places a fresh pile of dog poo on your brand new car seat would you be okay with it just because everyone does it?...
- red_admiral 11y ago> Yes, the crapware is unavoidable. but who doesn't ship with that? Microsoft's own-brand surface line, for one. Even MS has realised that the crapware situation is out of control.
- scholia 11y agoCrapware is usually found on consumer machines, where installing crapware pays for the OS and reduces the price. Pro machines from Dell and HP generally don't have crapware apart from anit-virus), in my experience. However, they may have "useful" extra software, which I could do without. (Dell Data Safe backup etc. Lenovo is the worst.) But you can download a crapware-free version of Windows 7 or 10 from Microsoft and do a clean installation.