Comments on: New ‘Stuffed’ Commercial

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:45:47 +0000

A Pc has so much more bloatware, garbage than a Mac.

Enough said, now on too bigger and better things, Like CS3 that ROCKS

By: OM

OM — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:59:05 +0000

i think the difference for me too is that apple bundles a trial of useful apps as opposed to totally useless apps that typically come pre-installed with a windows machine.

also, i’ve found that apple is responsible in telling you that the quickbooks, office, iWork trials end in 30 days.

i’ve supported dozens of clients who are shocked that they purchased a system with the impression it came with anti-virus software. but then 90 days later they have to shell out $30/year to be protected. then they have trials of software in order to burn a CD? the average windows user is not going to use Nero or Roxio to burn a music CD, and what’s wrong with the windows built-in disc burning software?

which brings me to my main frustration, apple tends to not degrade their built-in applications with ‘giving’ you software that does essentially the same thing.

just my opinion.

By: Honza

Honza — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:13:37 +0000

If you ever have to buy a PC, you’re better off just erasing the hard drive, and doing a clean OS only install from the CD/DVD. Of course this doesn’t work if they didn’t give you any clean ‘OS only’ media…

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:00:15 +0000

my laptop’s (pc) installation discs cannot be used without installing a 2 year old version of Nortons Anti-Virus. even selecting quite during the install process does not actually work, you have to un-install once windows is actually installed. thankfully Asus don’t include anything more than that. Sony i believe are one of the worst offenders, not only with anti-virus software and the like but also pre-installing ALL of their own music, video and image software – and anybody who’s familiar with Sony software will know it’s the most godawful crap known to man.

By: Lime

Lime — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:56:55 +0000

For comparisson my TiBook didn’t come with any trial software, instead it came with full versions of excellent programs like omni graffle, omni outliner, snaps pro.

Dunno what they come with these days because its still running silky after 4/5 years :) so hasn’t been replaced yet

By: deCadmus

deCadmus — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:34:51 +0000

While my MacBookPro had MS Office pre-loaded, all it took to remove it was to drag it to the trash. Doing that on a Windows machine would have required a number of steps of uninstalling, with the great likelihood that some components would remain behind, and other apps would be damaged, or have their capabilities reduced along the way.

Point: Mac.

By: sjmills

sjmills — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:37:39 +0000

I don’t think a demo of Office is comparable to the metric buttload of crap software that ships on various PCs.

By: kwit

kwit — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:27:22 +0000

The trial version of iWork is rather valuable I think. It’s a fully usable version, as opposed to the MS Office that won’t let you print, and I like the fact that it’s there for you to try because it’s not something is advertised much. If you haven’t already I would recommend trying it out. Having access to the other media from the app is rather nice.

By: Andrew Burke

Andrew Burke — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:03:13 +0000

Regarding being nagged by QuickTime: This is so old that I’d almost forgotten it.

If it bothers you by asking “Why not upgrade to QuickTime Pro,” then turn off any iCal alarms and then set your system date to, say, five years in the future. Then open QuickTime and when you’re nagged, say not now thanks. Then set your date back to today.

You won’t be bothered for another five years.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:22:48 +0000

Yeah but the stuff that comes on the mac is not bad and on OS X, removing it takes less than 3 seconds. Some of the demos on Mac are things I might actually be interested in. I was just working on a PC the other day and was absolutely appalled at the amount of stuff that was clogging it up and slowing it down. The stuff also takes forever to get rid of and you never know if its actually gone. Its not hypocritical, its a valid fact. Yet another reason to be a mac user.