Originally posted by Ansla
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Where I am, out of X number of laptop models available for sale, (x-1) models ship with Windows preloaded, with the other 1 model being Apple's Macs. No chance of getting any FreeDOS-loaded or Linux-loaded notebooks.
And seriously, any experienced PC user will know that OEM-loaded copies of Windows are crap in terms of performance.
My Acer laptop shipped with a copy of Vista that was so slow and mucked up that UAC takes a full 3 seconds to throw up the prompt. Scrubbed the HDD and loaded the machine with my own store-bought DVD copy of Windows Vista and the performance difference was stark.
Microsoft should lay down a rule where by no OEM is allowed to mess up the factory image with pointless performance-sapping applications and 'utilities'.
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