My good friend Jason Dunn is annoyed with Dell because they insist on installing craplets on your computer before it gets to you. Everything from a trial version of Norton Internet Security (the worst program ever) to Google Desktop, to Dell’s Support client… Look at his tray! This is a brand new machine!
I have to say, this is one reason I prefer a Mac. They don’t have to sell desktop real estate to companies to recoup the costs of their way-too-underpriced PC’s. You buy a Mac, you get a computer ready to go with all the stuff you need and no craplets. The worst part of it is that you can’t buy a PC without the craplets. Dell won’t sell you a “clean install” of Vista, and they won’t send you only the CDs and let you do it yourself.
Jason puts it in perspective:
Can you imagine buying a brand new car and having bumper stickers from Subway, Coke, Cialis, and Jenny Craig on the back of it? “Oh, we put bumper stickers on there to subsidize the cost of the car” says the salesman. “You can just scrape those off”. We’d never accept that from a car dealership, yet it’s exactly what we get from the major OEMs like Dell and HP. I’d happily pay an extra $10 to Dell just to get a machine that had no software installed on it beyond their basic Dell support applications.
Technorati Tags: dell, craplets, software
Recent Comments