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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 172718" data-attributes="member: 13090">I think there's a lot of truth in this statement. My solution to this, as well as things like hidden &quot;restore partitions&quot;, et al, was to buy a retail boxed version of Windows and simply wipe the drive and do a clean, virginal install of Windows. Windows is, in large part, a victim of it's own success and every PC vendor out there seems to think they can improve upon my &quot;Windows Experience&quot; by mucking with it, and that's putting it politely. A clean, proper install of Windows 7 is a beautiful thing; it's lean, it's fast, it's stable. A thirty-day trial version of Norton Security Suite, or whatever they're calling it now does nothing but interfere. That and Symantec, I firmly believe, is the product of Satan's personal foray into software development.To a large degree, and as was posted earlier, the control Apple has over not only the hardware profile of its product, but also the software component, does contribute to the Cult of the Mac. Still, what I'm paying for is hardware and there is nothing magical about Macs in this regard. Macs use the very same off-the-rack hardware as PC's. What you're paying for when you buy an Apple product is, in large part, curb-appeal which, I readily admit, Apple products have in spades. In *that* regard, you may as well be comparing an Italian sports car to a cinder block.....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 172718, member: 13090"] I think there's a lot of truth in this statement. My solution to this, as well as things like hidden "restore partitions", et al, was to buy a retail boxed version of Windows and simply wipe the drive and do a clean, virginal install of Windows. Windows is, in large part, a victim of it's own success and every PC vendor out there seems to think they can improve upon my "Windows Experience" by mucking with it, and that's putting it politely. A clean, proper install of Windows 7 is a beautiful thing; it's lean, it's fast, it's stable. A thirty-day trial version of Norton Security Suite, or whatever they're calling it now does nothing but interfere. That and Symantec, I firmly believe, is the product of Satan's personal foray into software development. To a large degree, and as was posted earlier, the control Apple has over not only the hardware profile of its product, but also the software component, does contribute to the Cult of the Mac. Still, what I'm paying for is hardware and there is nothing magical about Macs in this regard. Macs use the very same off-the-rack hardware as PC's. What you're paying for when you buy an Apple product is, in large part, curb-appeal which, I readily admit, Apple products have in spades. In *that* regard, you may as well be comparing an Italian sports car to a cinder block. [COLOR=#ffffff]....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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