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A lot?  My Dad's PC came with a 120 GB HD and had 9 GB left at the time of purchase.  The software had no install disks so I spent three days deleting over a thousand titles from the control panel so the few titles he did want to keep weren't lost (and they were only trial versions, anyway).  I didn't even bother with the fragments left over.  It seriously needs to just be reformatted.  Of course, then, he'd only have XP left and a very expensive game of solitaire.

sparkn wrote:

A lot?  My Dad's PC came with a 120 GB HD and had 9 GB left at the time of purchase.  The software had no install disks so I spent three days deleting over a thousand titles from the control panel so the few titles he did want to keep weren't lost (and they were only trial versions, anyway).  I didn't even bother with the fragments left over.  It seriously needs to just be reformatted.  Of course, then, he'd only have XP left and a very expensive game of solitaire.

He had only 9 GB left?!!!!

Jeeeeesus christ!!!!

Pah! Trial software?  Yeah, sure, I believe that.

garageband+loops = stuffed imo

after-life wrote:

PC makers cram all sorts of software that pops up on your first run, slows down your computer, and is hard to uninstall. On a Mac the few pieces of trial software don't load unless you actually choose to open them

Ummm, try opening a PowerPoint doc the the 1st time, and what opens, the Keynote demo! In fact, for PowerPoint to open the doc in this situation, you need to choose it under "File/Open File", which most people new to the Mac would not know.

Last edited by wellfleation (2007-04-14 7:52 pm)

The tasteful execution violates the artistic integrity of the fart joke genre.

You can argue this all kind of ways. A lot of the trial ware is the decision of the PC vendor, not MS, and their market is huge, so the temptation is also.

But what I see here (and elsewhere) is at least a debate about the effectiveness and  image of the new ads. I was just in the throes of converting when these came out, and they gave me pause... did I really want to be associated with the image of smugness associated with the ads.

Then I saw a debate similar to this one in a UK forum, and was encouraged.

Personally, I think the ads are a mistake, but now i don't care, because I have discoved that the mac people, like on this forum, are not like in the ads.

As to what I miss when going back to windows (on a good 2 processor HP workstation), is the seemingly effortless way OS X can allow an almost unlimited number of spps open at the same time without slowing down or getting crossed up. And of course, the difficulty of ininstalling on windows is well known.

And there are some windows things I miss as well. But nothing thatis a deal killer yet. Maybe a new thread on that subject.

I have ran my PC for years without virus scanning software and only 1 time have I ever got a virus.  The virus I got was somewhat of a fluke too.  I had given my router to a friend and then ordered me a new one.  I got hit with the virus that would just scan IP's and if you didn't have a firewall you would get infected.  That being said....if you know what you are doing PCs are just fine.  The problem is 90% of the world doesn't know what they are doing.

I find it funny that when I try to get someone to switch over to a mac they always tell me that they don't know how to use a mac so they will just buy what they are used to.  My response to them is that they dont' know how to use a PC either so getting a mac shouldn't be any different.

sparkn wrote:

A lot?  My Dad's PC came with a 120 GB HD and had 9 GB left at the time of purchase.  The software had no install disks so I spent three days deleting over a thousand titles from the control panel so the few titles he did want to keep weren't lost (and they were only trial versions, anyway).  I didn't even bother with the fragments left over.  It seriously needs to just be reformatted.  Of course, then, he'd only have XP left and a very expensive game of solitaire.

You had to delete over 1000 pre-installed software titles? I call Bull smurf.

ScifiterX wrote:

You obviously never dealt with a Crapaq. While I doubt the exact figure was over 1000, there was so much useless garbage on sis's system that it certainly seems a believable example figure.

I would believe 20 titles. I have set up more than a few cheap systems of the sort that come full of crap and while it's bad it's nothing like 1000.
Saying that sort of thing is why so many Windows users think Mac people are idiots.

1000

Pariah wrote:

ScifiterX wrote:

You obviously never dealt with a Crapaq. While I doubt the exact figure was over 1000, there was so much useless garbage on sis's system that it certainly seems a believable example figure.

I would believe 20 titles. I have set up more than a few cheap systems of the sort that come full of crap and while it's bad it's nothing like 1000.
Saying that sort of thing is why so many Windows users think Mac people are idiots.

1000

lol indeed.

I've seen my share of trial ware and I'll agree that its not so much installed trial software that bugs me, its mostly the ones that add a system tray icon with a running process in the background that drive me crazy.

The machines that ship with Norton Internet Security suite are likely to be as slow as slugs no matter what processor/RAM combo they have. You can't give that POS enough resources to be happy.