[sdiy] OT: new Dell Support Center

[mike ruberto]

I got a new HP over the summer. None of my audio production software
would work on it's Vista. None of the software vendors were planning
to release a Vista upgrade but announced brand new versions of the
programs for Vista would become available for full price. Faced with
having to spend another couple grand on the exact programs I already
have I did what any sensible computer geek would do. I slapped a copy
of KillDisc into the DVD drive.
Then dug through boxes for my old XP disc.
Hardware drivers were a pain to track down and the built in wireless
LAN still doesn't work but I'm not complaining.

Once I have my bands first CD release completed this March my use of
Windows on an audio workstation is over with. I'll attempt to build a
stable Linux based unit and failing that I'll use my wife to get a new
Mac at educational rates from the university she works at.

Dealing with this constant M$ planned obsolescence is a million times
worse than trying to do business with a shifty crackhead.

M. A. Ruberto

On Feb 10, 2008 10:00 AM, anthony <aankrom at bluemarble.net> wrote:
> So after b3eing nagged abotu it by my not new not old (2004) Dell PC I
> downloaded the new Dell Support Software. And I have to say: damn! software
> bloat is contagious! The whole installation process and then the
> configuration process made my Norton antivirus software go nuts. And it
> dawned on me: do I really even need to bother? Haven't all of those
> important automatic updates come straight from Microsoft? Didn't I set it up
> that way a while ao? I think so. I'm just wondering what everybody else who
> has a somewhat new but not new enough Dell PC did.
>
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