Not I. I'm staying away from w7 till the first service pack comes out. --STeve Andre'
On Saturday 03 April 2010 15:30:28 Scott Matthews wrote: > Do you (or anybody else here) happen to know what comes on a Win7 Thinkpad, > in addition to Win7? > > ie, is there a doc up on the Lenovo site that checklists how it differs > from a clean install? It seems rather screwy that something as fundamental > as this is always so obfuscated, why can't "clean Win7" be a preload > option? Now THAT would be useful on a restore partition. > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "STeve Andre'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 2:20 PM > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: "Scott Matthews" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Question about getting a new Thinkpad... > > > On Saturday 03 April 2010 08:51:26 Scott Matthews wrote: > >> In the past, whenever I purchased a new PC I would always wipe it and > >> perform a clean install -- as the manufacturers would always preload > >> various undesirable apps and other useless stuff. > >> > >> Am I correct to assume that a new Thinkpad (Win 7) will similarly come > >> with > >> this sort of stuff? > >> > >> If so, is there a "best" way to purchase a Thinkpad, presumably with Win > >> 7, > >> and then perform a clean install? > >> > >> Thanks kindly, -Scott > > > > Everyone installs trash on their systems these days, it seems. If you > > run to > > the patch site and add stuff, then delete the crud you don't want, I > > don't see > > a need to scrub the system. You'll have to do that soon enough after > > you > > get infected. ;-) > > > > The restore partition will reinstall all the crud, so perhaps a checklist > > of > > things that want to be removed is a good idea. I hadn't thought of that. > > > > In some cases it seems to be possible to buy a thinkpad with just dos on > > it, at some savings. You could then get a copy of W7 and install that, > > but > > that costs more and I don't think its worth it--at least I've not seen a > > compelling reason for that. > > > > --STeve Andre' > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
