No surprises there!
Funny they don't just cut to the chase and flat-out offer to re-install
the OS from a no-bloatware image for $180. =)
Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
I just read this on CNet:
"Customers who purchase PCs through Best Buy can take their systems to
the Geek Squad counter and, for a fee, let the technicians go through
every piece of software that comes on a new PC and make recommendations
as to what should stay and what needs to go, Stephens [Geek Squad
Founder] said."
One has to love this - buy your cheap PC loaded with crap at Best Buy at
one counter, then walk across the store to the Geek Squad counter, and
pay more money to get the crap one doesn't want (that subsidizes the
price) removed. That sounds like a flat out rip off to me - for both
the consumer and the company that's paying to have it's software put on
these cheap machines.
T
