Dealing with craplet software


What do you do with all those "extras" that PC manufactures load on your new system?
Two more before I let MaCei try a complete site reload again.

Walter S. Mossberg did a follow-up to his column of last week that I talked about here very briefly. He gives suggestions to help get some of the manufacturer installed junk software off your PC. But I really liked this paragraph towards the end.

Finally, an excellent way to avoid or minimize the craplet problem is to simply buy an Apple Macintosh computer. New Macs don't have any craplets displayed on their desktops. On a new Mac, no third-party software is automatically launched when you start the computer, and you don't need antivirus or antispyware programs because the Mac is essentially free from those menaces. So, even my year-old Mac laptop reboots roughly three times as fast as my three-week-old Sony.

Apple does include a few third-party programs on Macs, including one that, oddly, is for drawing comic-strip effects on photos. But these are tucked away in the applications folder and most are full working versions, not trials or offers. The main exception is a trial version of Microsoft Office. With some Mac models, you get trials of two Apple programs, iWork and FileMaker Pro. But these trials can be deleted simply by dragging the icons to the trash can.

Apple sells the user experience and has come closer than any other computer maker to creating the computer as an appliance. Just as you shouldn't have to be a classically trained musician to use a CD player or have studied as a chef to prepare dinner, you shouldn't have to understand how a computer works to use email or surf the web.

That is the difference, and it is why Apple has withstood it's own occasional idiocy plus all the FUD that Micro$oft has thrown at it over the years. As I said before, the market is better for having both Micro$oft and Apple. Certainly the customers have won.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Fri - April 13, 2007 at 06:29 PM  Tag


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