I had a client today who bought a new Compaq and wanted the old hard disk installed as a second drive. The machine had never even been turned on, and I was stunned by a couple of things:
- how long it took to start up the very first time (At least 10 minutes of various Please Wait… screens)
- The ridiculous number of shortcuts for various services and offers on the desktop: AOL, Yahoo, RealOne, and half a dozen other free-for-now, pay-us-later jobbers.
Two days ago, after setting up my new eMac (which I’ll report on soon!), I felt like I would be so pissed off if I had bought a new computer that was so slow to startup and was already so filled with shit that I don’t need or want. I mean, my eMac came with some free bundled software… World Book, Quicken, AppleWorks, a couple games… but it didn’t beat me over the head with a stick about it.
Maybe as an advanced computer user I appreciate the freedom to explore, rather than to have things shoved down my throat, and maybe newbies need to be guided a bit, but it was overwhelming for even me, during the very first startup, to have to see all this crap.
That is some very true sh_t been setting up computers for friends and about every system out there trys the same thing software overload was is up for these people who had never had a computer before it was very confusing if the computer retailers want to sell PCs I think they need to start making things easer not harder for newbiees just seems like the thing to do that my thought PEACE OUT
Jonny