On 14/02/2019 10:24, Clive Page wrote:

From experience in buying laptops in recent years, I think the main
deciding factor may be how much bloatware is pre-installed but it's hard
to assess that from vendors descriptions or reviews.Â* Does anyone have
experience of which brands are least infested, or on which it's easiest
to remove all the junk?


The effort* in removing bloatware is better spent on a platform that you
have much more control of, i.e. Linux or Mac. Performing day to day
activities is very straightforward on these, no game playing rituals
required.

* Basically, on a machine with digital entitlement to run Windows 10,
the process is to download the equivalent non-OEM tampered vanilla
version direct from Microsoft, reinstall, and then battle with
powershell (or "settings") to remove apps that MS occasionally spams
your PC with, in every update.

If you want to go that way, you may as well buy a posh second user
Lenovo laptop from a recycler, and enjoy(?) the whole maintenance
experience.

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Adrian C