I has a confession. [rant]

[Alakhai]

Originally Posted by Engel

I think people can compare windows & mac os not pc & mac because the difference between pc & mac is too small at this moment. For an example, pc owners can use Hackintosh and mac is powered by intel processor...

right...but pc are much cheaper

[Engel]

Additonally I want to say that I don't think of mac as of more stable computer than pc. There is so many software for pc and almost everyone pc user have to install too many software (simply there isn't so many software available for mac os users) and it's clear that a small part of this pc software works unstable; and there is too many pc users that install unstable software that they don't really need ) So this is the cause of rumours about mac is more stable.

[annikk.exe]

There is a great deal of Bloatware for PCs. I am not sure if it's the same for Macs, but a brand new Dell PC generally takes between 1 and 2 hours to completely clean of all the unnecessary crap.

I'm still not 100% sure why Dell and other manufacturers do this. If I'm buying a computer from a manufacturer I'd be perfectly happy with them simply pre-installing windows. I really don't need 50 free games and some crappy multimedia software that duplicates functions already present in applications that come free with Windows anyway.

I especially don't need a hidden update tool that automatically downloads new bloatware and updates to the existing stuff without my knowledge or consent. Especially not when it tracks and stores usage data and sends it to a mysterious central server.....
AOL and Creative Labs are the worst for this kind of maliciousness.



-Annikk

[LivePsy]

I'm not impressed by the "user experience" new PC's inflict on you either. There was a range of Vaio notebooks a few years ago when Vista was very new, which needed to get updates off the Vaio site but the site crashed Internet Explorer. It was a catch 22: you really needed the updates but your brand new notebook wouldn't download them.

The problem with pop up assistants is the number of times I have seen really important things (Windows updates) get ignored and yet users happily click on the stupidest things. No wait, that should be "stupid users happily click in things".

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[teethofgold]

Originally Posted by annikk.exe

There is a great deal of Bloatware for PCs. I am not sure if it's the same for Macs, but a brand new Dell PC generally takes between 1 and 2 hours to completely clean of all the unnecessary crap.

I'm still not 100% sure why Dell and other manufacturers do this. If I'm buying a computer from a manufacturer I'd be perfectly happy with them simply pre-installing windows. I really don't need 50 free games and some crappy multimedia software that duplicates functions already present in applications that come free with Windows anyway.

I especially don't need a hidden update tool that automatically downloads new bloatware and updates to the existing stuff without my knowledge or consent. Especially not when it tracks and stores usage data and sends it to a mysterious central server.....
AOL and Creative Labs are the worst for this kind of maliciousness.



-Annikk

the reasons they include this software is that they get a kickback from the company if you upgrade to the full version.

[teethofgold]

regarding this entire thread... PCs are great for people who want to f*ck around with their computers as a part of their music making experience. me? I f*ck with computers and software all day... so when I want to make music... I want my computer to be transparent and focus on making the sounds. this works well for me on my mac.

your mileage may vary... but good luck driving a PC if you're not a mechanic!