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Excess Baggage
by Andrew McCaskey
Slashdot Review Podcast
Thanks to Kyle Nishioka, William Kempthorne, Daniel Rairigh, Kevin Korpi, and Curtis Stinson for their ongoing support for Slashdot Review. These are some of the original listener crew, and their loyalty is especially appreciate.
Today’s subject is excess baggage.
I hope you have had a chance to catch some of the recent Apple advertisements, with continuing segments of the saga of Mac and PC. One of the ads has the two getting ready for action, out of the box, and there is a mention of extra Applications to be removed.
It’s been about a year since I purchased a new PC from Dell, but there are plenty of applications on that box- many of them intrusive in nature – that I’d just as soon have gone. One site mentioned briefly in the roundtable show last weekend has a tool that just might hold your interest: It’s called – the PC De-Crapifier. .
Yorkspace has developed a most useful scripting application – originally for Dell machines, now extended to Toshiba, and HP/Compaq. Go through the list, and you will find around thirty programs that you may or may not want to have cluttering up any new machine. If you imagine that you are running a small business and just received two dozen new boxes for your company, and you will immediately see the reason for this site’s popularity.
It’s all part of the struggle to find balance. The old methods are not working – witness the scale back announced for next year’s E3 conference from the trade show excess of showmanship and glitz. The low costs on Dell hardware are at least partially due to subsidization by software manufacturers to pre-load their products. But, it looks like at least some part of the market is convinced that less is more - the segment that has to keep those two dozen boxes working – or provide tech support to the one box that is going to your relatives seven hundred miles away.
Back on the video, as Mac jumps out of the box, he waves goodbye and says “It looks like you gotta do a lotta stuff before you can do any stuff” . I am not sure if the ad is selling Mac’s but it has to be striking a responsive note that sends folks off to Yorkspace in search of the Magic Bits to clean a brand new machine. That’s not what you want for the Out of the Box Experience” .
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