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To: Patrick E.McDaniel who wrote (174765)	4/29/2005 1:18:40 AM
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On a 700m Inspiron received in December, I ordered it with no AV protection and Dell loaded the McAfee intrusive firewall and AV anyway. As if McAfee never heard of Norton! Since it was free I didn't want to delete it, so I disabled it, and installed Norton which I prefer (and for which I had a 2-system license). The McAfee Firewall software bugs me to install important updates every time I restart. Dell probably got paid by McAfee for doing the installation, but does Dell get a cut of any renewals? I'd guess they do. On the small 700m screen the McAfee popups are too small to read easily, with no reasonable way to control the font size. What a contrast to the readability of SI. My only other complaint about the 700m is the blue on black color on some keys is ridiculously hard to read in some lighting conditions. The blue is always a smaller font or a symbol, so the color was chosen just for style or photography. I'd prefer white or light color keys, or high contrast for what is written on them, but Dell likes what photographs well or looks good more than higher usability. IMO.

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