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AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do
pickens writes "David Pogue writes in the NY Times that when you buy a new Windows PC, it comes festooned with stickers on the palm rests: one for Windows, one for Skype, one for Intel, one for the laptop company, maybe an Energy Star sticker and so on. 'It's like buying a new, luxury car — and discovering that it comes with non-removable bumper stickers that promote the motor oil, the floor mat maker, the windshield-fluid company and the pine tree air freshener you have no intention of ever using,' writes Pogue. But the worst thing is that when you peel them off, they shred, leaving adhesive crud behind. 'When you've just spent big bucks on a laptop, should you really be obligated to spend the first 20 minutes trying to dissolve away the sticker goop with WD40?' But AMD has a solution. Starting next year, AMD will switch to new stickers that peel off easily, leaving no residue; after that, it's considering eliminating the sticker program altogether."
And aside from that, a PC running Windows plus a bunch of YourPCNameHere bloatware plus all the requisite security software might have better specs, but it may or may not run any faster.
Thankfully you can just hit the format button and get rid of all that junk.
:).
Here's my two step process on how to make a machine run better than anything OS X has to offer:
1) Buy Laptop.
2) Install Linux.
When you are evaluating buying a computer, the ONLY thing you should be evaluating is the hardware, since computer hardware comes with the innate ability to install whatever the fuck software you want on it. If you throw in the software on top of it, you are just allowing yourself to get played. Enjoy your assrape though
Can anyone tell me why 99% of
Yea? How well does the software my work has me use run on Linux?
Final Cut
DVD Studio
Photoshop
Illustrator
Word
Duxbury Braille Translator
Final Cut and DVD Studio are dog turds.
Them not running at all would be an improvement.