Who Installs the Most Crapware?

Barence writes "PC Pro has done a thorough test of the software bundled by nine of the leading laptop manufacturers to find out who installs the most crapware on their PCs. Manufacturers such as Acer add as much as two minutes to their boot times by stuffing their machines full of bundled software, with own-brand proprietary software being the worst offender. HP's bundled apps, meanwhile, have a memory footprint of more than 1GB. PC Pro has also reviewed three pieces of software which promise to remove rubbish from your PC — with mixed results."

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Re:Lenovo

[bughunter]

Why is this marked as troll?

Because his post ends with this definitively trollish sentence.

The day some big name intalls iTunes, QuickTime, Safary or other Abble Supercrap, as default, that's the last day I buy such a brand for us.

Unless there's another computer company out there violating Apple's trademarks, he's trolling for Apple fanboys. While Apple does have some software that's true crap (e.g., Mail.app) the applications he's named aren't crap, nor do they meet the definition of 'crapware' as commonly accepted by the community -- free, third party software installed to entice the purchaser to subscribe to an online service, habitually use a particular website, or buy a full version of the installed demo product. (Technically, HP's software doesn't fall into this category, either.)

If I had mod points today, I'd be torn between "-1 Troll" and "-1 Flamebait."