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    Sony to charge $50 for bloatware free Vaios

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by purplegreendave, Mar 21, 2008.

  1. purplegreendave

    purplegreendave Has a notebook.

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  2. Hawkshark

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    Actually its 150...
    You cant get it on Home premium, only on Business which is another 100$ upgrade... Its stupid, just do the same damn thing yourself with a vista disk and a liberal use of formatting :)
     
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  3. purplegreendave

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    I agree, most people who would actually realise what the removal of said software would achieve and therefore even consider spending the money, are already well capable of a clean install themselves.
     
    purplegreendave, Mar 21, 2008
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  4. Hawkshark

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    i take it back... i tried it again... it actually 125$... When you get the NoJunk option it reduces some software cost by 25$
     
    Hawkshark, Mar 21, 2008
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    Already discussed...
    But I wonder...
    Nobody could tell me if the recovery partition is clean too or just the actual install? Because ending with a fully bloated install after a recovery and after paying the extra 25$ would REALLY suck!!
     
    karimnacer, Mar 21, 2008
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    i think its well worth the hassle in doing a clean install yourself (cough cough finding the clean install disks) and installing the drivers
     
    Sprite, Mar 21, 2008
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    doing a semi clean install is a better option rather than paying extra bucks to sony
     
    Kaushal, Mar 21, 2008
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    order from P1 ..... cost = $0
     
    ASG, Mar 21, 2008
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    " doing a semi clean install is a better option rather than paying extra bucks to sony"

    Most agree. My opinion is that Sony is being opportunistic. The normal logic is that people are only asked to pay when they need something; now Sony ask people to pay for not needing something (i.e. those bloatware) while P1 (and maybe others) charges nothing extra.


    rgds.
     
    Benjamin Chin, Mar 21, 2008
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  10. Rahul

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    According to Gizmodo, Sony will make "Fresh Start" free starting March 22nd.
     
    Rahul, Mar 21, 2008
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    Sony just gave another good reason to get it from PortableOne!
     
    Ch28Kid, Mar 21, 2008
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    Cool, does that mean they will make a new dvd restore without bloatware? :)
     
    starstreak, Mar 21, 2008
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  14. Jayayess1190

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    No, I think Sony will just send the computer bloatware free and still send you no dvds.

    BTW this story is also at Engadget.
     
    Jayayess1190, Mar 21, 2008
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    Too bad. That means the TZ150 I have can't be clean from the start.
     
    starstreak, Mar 21, 2008
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    Well, the bottomline is that, at least for this sole TZ model, there's a no-bloatware option. I hope they make this a standard policy on all Sony models, because that would make buying a US-spec lappy much more attractive. :)
     
    ubercool, Mar 21, 2008
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    Buy from P1 as said earlier. Not only is cost of bloatware removal = $0, but the price of the laptop is less than at discount houses and the service is spectacular.
     
    notaguru, Mar 22, 2008
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