Consumers and the review industry need to put more emphasis on this stuff. A very quick look around: Laptopmag rates best & worst[1], but only gives 5 points t

Consumers and the review industry need to put more emphasis on this stuff. A very quick look around: Laptopmag rates best & worst[1], but only gives 5 points to "software". Asus sits in 3rd place, with 3/5 rating for software, with the comment: > Many of Asus’ laptops ship with more than their fair share of bloatware, including Line, Netflix, Candy Crush Saga, Flipboard and TripAdvisor.[2] PC Mag rates the top 10 of 2016[3], with the 1st being a chromebook and 2nd place going to an Acer despite one of its cons being "lots of bloatware".[4] On one hand, it's not that hard to reinstall an OS from scratch (something I always do), so to say "don't buy this laptop" because of that is maybe a bit extreme, but on the other hand, most consumers don't do that. [1] http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/laptop-brand-ratings http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/laptop-brand-ratings [2] http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/asus-brand-rating#sthash.9TFgaZs8.dpuf http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/asus-brand-rating#sthash.9... [3] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2369981,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2369981,00.asp [4] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2498473,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2498473,00.asp