Dell gives buyers the no-crap option

Posted on April 28, 2006
Filed Under Blogs, Companies |

I bought my mom a HP desktop computer a while back and when I plugged it in for her I could not believe how many marketing icons were preloaded. I literally spent an hour cleaning it up figuring that the more stuff that was there the more confusion it would create. A few months later we had to send it back to HP because of a hard drive failure and went it (finally) came back… yep, all the preloaded crap was back with it.

When I bought my MacBook last month it had one icon on the desktop. And manufacturers still think that people like Macs because they look cool…

In reading the “you spoke, we listened” comments below (via digg) about Dell I almost wonder if it was less about people speaking and more about blogs amplifying the voice, in particular this little gem of a post where a guy actually wrote a “Dell De-Crapifier” utility to remove all the junk that Dell (and I would assume this could work on other brands) preloads on their systems.

It seems that Dell has taken our criticism (and our readers as well) to heart and has made the much sought after move to offer select XPS systems with “limited” pre-installed software.

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