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Does shovel-ware lower the cost of the box?
Namely, do those companies that have the software preloaded pay Dell to do so, and does Dell pass that cost savings along? I'm willing to spend a few minutes removing stuff if it saves me money up front.

The only thing I would like to see change is how trialware AV is handled. Most machines I deal with that are having virus/malware problems have a copy of Norton AV on them, 4+ months out of date.
Yet the owners of those machines state 'no, I got Norton with the computer.', not understanding the whole need to be up to date concept.
Posted by: mdemuth   Posted on: 07/22/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Does shovel-ware lower the cost of the box?  mdemuth | 07/22/06
You mean you really have to ask THAT?  yogeee | 07/22/06
How did we get onto processor bigotry?  morchant | 07/22/06
Bigotry, hipocrocy; I guess it's all the same to you....  yogeee | 07/22/06
You know that's not what I was saying  morchant | 07/23/06
Re: Off topic  Kama-sama | 07/23/06
Not a misconception  morchant | 07/23/06
The incremental cost is very low  morchant | 07/22/06
Shipped is not the same as installed.  Anton Philidor | 07/24/06
"the majority of users"...  Anton Philidor | 07/24/06
No... what I wrote was  morchant | 07/24/06
Or ....  code_flogger | 07/24/06
There's more to it than that...  cd003284@... | 07/24/06
Cleaning house  Anton Philidor | 07/24/06
Better that the SW not be installed  morchant | 07/24/06
Realistic possibilities.  Anton Philidor | 07/24/06
Not daunting for you perhaps  morchant | 07/25/06
Solution seems easy  Langalibalene | 07/24/06
Great idea  morchant | 07/24/06
I hate the garbage software  rupaa62 | 07/24/06
shoveaware  emtd@... | 07/25/06
Buy a computer without shovelware  cyber_rigger@... | 08/09/06
Speaking of unwanted software..  teckk@... | 10/08/06

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