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Speaking of bloat-ware - and this is getting a little off the original question - when my wife recently bought her new Acer at BestBuy, the best hundred bucks she spent all year was the optional post-sale prep, in which the techs replaced Windows 8 with 8.1 and removed all the bloat-ware.
All that useless, nagging, resource-hogging crap that you practically need a CS degree to excavate from your Registry and other trouble spots... is not there. Hallelujah!
Oh, and she's really pleased with the laptop, too. It's an Acer Aspire V3 772G-9643, which is not the newest-hottest, but it's proven and would still be a suitable gaming machine. She appreciates that it's got plenty of oomph to handle streaming and recording of two-way video, while being blissfully quiet to not interfere with the sound on said video recording, or when she does presentations in front of groups. As part of her marketing biz, she hosts and records video interviews-with-the-experts for local companies. So, the laptop was around 900 bucks, and the prep service was about 100... and saved her way more than 100 bucks in aggravation and her valuable time (or mine...) trying to track down and nullify crap-ware on a new machine.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Morton
Sent: January-17-14 1:02 AM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Question about refurbished laptops
Sure... get rid of the bloatware and don't bother ever calling tech support...only then would I ever consider a Dell.
(HP also = bloatware.)
> Chris
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