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The OEM additions usually have negative cost (they get paid to include them). If you look for a more expensive model (try the small business section if the vend
by TheCoelacanth 8y ago
The OEM additions usually have negative cost (they get paid to include them). If you look for a more expensive model (try the small business section if the vendor has one), you can probably find one that doesn't have those additions, you will just have to pay for the true cost of the laptop and not the ad-subsidized cost.
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- satsuma 8y agoyup, and it makes sense -- for each one of us that recoils in horror at the mcafee logo when we first boot a fresh laptop, there's two more who shrug and continue on with their lives and one who pays to upgrade to ultimate bad guy stopper pro (tm) edition
- r00fus 8y agoIt's the Facebook "you don't get something of real value for free" but with say a $400 baseline cost. I hate this business model as I'm sure most other folks do as well - but it's instructive to understand that it's not just online services like FB that rely on it. It's infested hardware, media, pretty much all parts of our consumer life... give it time and the corporate adlords will infest government/city services as well. Ads everywhere, minority-report style.