Dell Ships Gaming Systems Sans Bloat

An anonymous reader writes "Dell has followed up and put their money where their mouth is after HardOCP panned them last year for selling 'gaming systems' that you could not even install some popular 3D games on due to the bloatware on the system. You can now get clean installs on some XPS Dell systems. Dell is running a 'You Spoke, We Listened,' header on their site." From the article: "It seems that Dell has taken our criticism (and our readers as well) to heart and has made the much sought after move to offer select XPS systems with "limited" pre-installed software. We phoned a Dell sales representative late Monday, and he confirmed that the installation is completely clean, except for the included anti-virus program. As explained to us by Dell, There is no AOL installation, no "media jukebox", and no ISP offers to weigh the supplied operating system down."

Re:Still I ask

[jpmkm]

If the USPS is delivering mail at highway speeds then I think a 20% increase in fuel usage is the least of their problems.

Re:Parent is not flamebait - windows subsidy is re

[Alsee]

OEM support for windows depends entirely on the ability to hide deceptive spyware on the systems

Clearly this is an area where Linux to match or exceed Windows in order to capture the desktop.

The scary part is that I am not quite sure if I was kidding or not.

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