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To: Steve Lee who wrote (33210)	6/29/2000 2:14:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

...vendors have found the sweet spot where most customers will trade off stability against ease of use against features against price. That is why preloaded computers come with all that crap... That's one theory. Another would be that these vendors are desperate to differentiate themselves to stay in business, since they are selling a low-margin commodity over which they have no control. A simpler one would be that they want to sell you some more "kit", as you might say over there. And the particular Compaq incompetence you refer to is just a tiny question of degree, isn't it Steve? They just broke the camel's back. All these vendors load up Windows machines with so much unbelievably needless crap that it justifies a class action suit. It's just a matter of being careful to stay just under the line so the machine will boot to a desktop and won't start swapping heavily until you run any real application. This whole area is another illustration of how the 68% of happy PC users who approve of Microsoft and Bill Gates are simply unaware of their own victimization. --QS