Re: Bloatware and Bloatdisks

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

What is said below is ok for the most part. I built my last three machines
but when faced with software that needs 3Gig to install it is more difficult
to be satisfied with a 4Gig disk. I am still running WinNT 4 on a system with
2 1gig drives but the disk gets used up by files that I can't find easily.
The point is that the software gets bigger and bigger and more intrusive
because they know you are buying a bigger machine. For example, I recently
installed TurboTax on the NT machine. This is the fourth or fifth year I
have done this. Suddenly the Intuit poople decided without asking first that
I really need IE 5.5 (I don't use IE at all) so they clogged my disk with
another 80M of garbage as far as I was concerned. Software companies have got
to stop doing this. Especially TurboTax which one needs to buy every year.

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 01:20:59PM -0500, Montleon, Jason wrote:
> I agree with most everything everyone here says.  The largest drive I
> have is in the slowest system, my server/gateway. I can't seem to get
> more than 15% of that thing used up AT BEST.  That comes out to just
> over 4 GB.  I just don't understand what the fascination is with size as
> I can't find 27 GB of data to store on the thing.  
> 
> I would so much rather have a 9GB drive running at 25,000 RPM,
> transfering data at 1 Gbps using some fiber optic channel rather than
> some 7,200 RPM ATA66 drive thunking over 80 GB of data thinking about
> what to do next.  Make it 4 GB if you need to in order to make it
> affordable...  I cannot imagine for the life of me why home users are
> buying 80 GB IDE disks for.  Good things come in small packages...
> 
> I also think it rather sad that Netscape can't tone down their browser
> so it can start up in less than 30 seconds on a Pentium.  Internet
> Explorer 6.0 only takes a few seconds in a p133 laptop with 32 MB RAM.
> Netscape 6.2.1 on a p166 with 96 MB takes nigh 30 seconds.  I don't need
> to see stock prices.  I don't want to see stock prices.  I don't want
> the news in a side bar.  If I want news I'll go to a news site.  I want
> a browser that can move quick and display the page correctly.  The only
> buttons I use are back forward and refresh.  What more do you really
> need (besides print and other obvious ones.)  Netscape isn't the only
> one...
> 
> And there is nothing, Nothing, NOTHING more that hate than seeing
> companies throwing away Pentiums with 32 MB of RAM because some
> knucklehead loading Windows 2000 on it thought it was too slow.  It irks
> me to no end.  With a cheap memory upgrade and maybe a new processor
> it's a good machine.  I have fixed up numerous PC's for school
> organizations, etc. with Linux or Windows 9x and put this older
> equipment into hands that are happy to have it.  Why pay someone to
> dispose of it when I'll take it for free and give it to someone who
> wants it and thinks its wonderful.
> 
> but hey bloatware and bloatdisks are what sell to the ignorant.  This is
> why I do my best to build my own systems and put in the best quality
> performance parts I can find.  When price is a factor though I take what
> I can get for free.
> 
> Jason 
> jason montleon arbella com 
> 
>   
> 

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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
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San Antonio, TX 78212-7200

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