On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 4:42 pm -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote: >>> You want to look at bloat, look closely at Dell (not just consumer but >>> consumer, small business, and enterprise) or even better yet HP. HP >>> has >>> dozens of different models. In fact, bloat at HP is so bad you can >>> find one >>> basic computer model with more than 10 different variations sporting >>> different software packs, hard drive and optical variations, and even >>> what >>> retailer sells the bloody thing. >> >> Bloat or consumer choice: it's a subtle distinction ;-) > >No, it isn't. Bloat is quite obvious to see. This is one reason HP just >fired their CEO, the disarray of their PC business.
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