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Will be interesting to see how much they charge.
A look at the online store shows a Dell Studion XPS laptop (13", 2.53GHz) for $999, free shipping. Not too bad, really. On the Dell website it lists that model for $1149, so there is something wierd about that.
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Who doesn't use adobe anyway?

Oh and I have an idea. Wouldn't it be cool if the admins could go a day without deleting every post they don't agree with?
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Last laptop I bought came with NOTHING I didn't want on it, which means came without any crap ware of any kind. It was a Dell.
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everyone uses adobe and mse, or atleast they should lol and as for live essentials, most of those things are essential, i mean photo viewer and dvd maker, not like they are resource hogs or are these massive programs that will take up half your hd.... they have to put a few things that the common user will think is "neat" for marketing purposes
I agree, everybody now needs Adobe, its GOOD... so no harm in having such useful software.
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Last laptop I bought came with NOTHING I didn't want on it, which means came without any crap ware of any kind. It was a Dell.
Deal with Dell laptop regularly. Every one i have encountered breaks my bloat-o-meter. Did you buy a high end one or something?

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Deal with Dell laptop regularly. Every one i have encountered breaks my bloat-o-meter. Did you buy a high end one or something?
Business line, or entry level business line.

Also, Adobe Acrobat Reader is trash. It's heavy, slow, and crashes systems. Foxit reader is much much better for PDFs.

Acrobat Reader also installed the Adobe download manager, and the download manager downloaded and installed McAfee "VirusScan" or something like that, without asking me. That makes it that last time I ever use an optional (free) Adobe piece of software.
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Actually...the software pre-loaded is not bad.

I mean...it'll actually give end users a nice array of software to get up and going from just the plugging in point.
yeah, i see where your coming from here.

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Foxit is amazing. Adobe reader is trash by comparison.

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Deal with Dell laptop regularly. Every one i have encountered breaks my bloat-o-meter. Did you buy a high end one or something?
EVERYONE is allowed to buy from the Dell small business section. The prices are generally better and you can configure it so it comes with ZERO bloatware.

Actulaly, all the Dell home line computers come with an OS re-install disk. This disk has ZERO bloatware on it. If you use the partition or you use the "applications" disk you will start running into issues.
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Microsoft is an old dog that refused to learn any new tricks... I am just waiting for my Google OS now. I hope they don't "bundle" up crape ware like MS does...

If Win2000 = NT5, WinXp = NT6. Now is Win7.

Win Vista = NT6.5?
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I'm stuck in the dark side of IT, (Geek Squad >.<) and as long as your store's agents aren't ******* (see math: fractions: 1/100) the optimization service really does work magic. I actually REMOVE the garbageware instead of deleting the icon or turning it off in MSConfig. Make sure all the drivers are updated, and when a model has a known sftware error (remember the Toshiba laptops that had the registry filter error?) I've always taken the extra time to be sure it got fixed before it left. Microsoft doing this is just taking the next step in their giant business, doing it before anyone else can.
DBAN and reinstall

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