Do Macbook come install with load of rubbish

Rooky007 · 31 Jan 2007 at 11:05

I would like to know do Macbook come install with loads of rubbish on them like Pc Laptops do

Cheers

JonB · 31 Jan 2007 at 11:12

Lmao. No. (Although it depends what you determine to be rubbish!)

Liquid_Entity · 31 Jan 2007 at 11:16

JonB said:
Lmao. No. (Although it depends what you determine to be rubbish!)

90 day trials of symantack internet unsecurity

AOL 11 trials (already half pre-installed)

Useless DVD media players

Useless spyware programs

Hundreds of useless icons on the desktop

and anythign else they feel needs to take up space on your brand new notebook !

Beepcake · 31 Jan 2007 at 11:18

Yes they do to be honest, but it's not as bad as some of the PC laptops i've seen. You get loads of languages that you probably won't need, loads of out of date printer drivers, trial versions of iWork and MS Office and you could class iLife as "rubbish" if you are being harsh

Rooky007 · 31 Jan 2007 at 11:18

As above all sorts of rubbish on Toshiba laptops

Will_3rd · 31 Jan 2007 at 11:20

The only crap I can think are the iWork Trial, Microsoft Office 2004 Trial and the immense amount of useless printer drivers

Rooky007 · 31 Jan 2007 at 11:22

cheers folks...

Just that when ever i bough a new laptop it full of icons i dont need and pre install software and it slow things down for things i dont want know what i mean

titchard · 31 Jan 2007 at 11:23

You'll find it is only one tenth of what you would expect from a Dell or Packard Bell.

Rich

Mr Jones · 31 Jan 2007 at 11:28

Anything you don't want, just drag and drop into the trash and it's gone forever. Use aplications like AppZapper to clean out even the library files if you so eagerly want to remove everything associated to it.

I removed the iWork trial and MS Office 04 Trial initially. Then removed any applications that I know I'll not use like iWeb, Mail e.t.c. Drag, Drop, Gone for good.

Rooky007 · 31 Jan 2007 at 11:33

so drag drop gone for good is better than how windows does it?

Mr Jones · 31 Jan 2007 at 11:41

Rookies said:
so drag drop gone for good is better than how windows does it?

Anything you want to uninstall "have to" go through the uninstaller wizard, remove system registry files and all.

On a mac it's a surprise for me when I realise installing and uninstalling is a matter of drag and drop. IMHO, it's better. Not as much hassle...

Edit: Also, this is something of an advantage. Say I installed the game "Postal 2" in my applications folder, I'm running low on space, so I just drag and drop it into my external HDD. OS X will know it has been moved and all my alias (i.e. Shortcuts) and anything that is linked to that application is updated.

Try doing that on a Windows and see...

I'm going off topic here, sorry.

Beepcake · 31 Jan 2007 at 12:09

Dr Jones said:
Anything you want to uninstall "have to" go through the uninstaller wizard, remove system registry files and all.

On a mac it's a surprise for me when I realise installing and uninstalling is a matter of drag and drop. IMHO, it's better. Not as much hassle...

Edit: Also, this is something of an advantage. Say I installed the game "Postal 2" in my applications folder, I'm running low on space, so I just drag and drop it into my external HDD. OS X will know it has been moved and all my alias (i.e. Shortcuts) and anything that is linked to that application is updated.

Try doing that on a Windows and see...

I'm going off topic here, sorry.

Unfortunately that only works with some things, many programs shove things all over the shop and simple drag dropping won't get rid of them any more than dragging and dropping a Program Files folder (which is basically what an OS X application is). With those apps you can usually re-run setup and choose to remove, or download some kind of 'nuke' program that completely removes it. I had a real nightmare getting rid of Stuffit once

Delocalizer is pretty good for killing all the unwanted languages, but you also have the option of just booting the restore cd on day one and only installing what you want.

Mr Jones · 31 Jan 2007 at 12:15

Beepcake said:
Unfortunately that only works with some things, many programs shove things all over the shop and simple drag dropping won't get rid of them any more than dragging and dropping a Program Files folder (which is basically what an OS X application is). With those apps you can usually re-run setup and choose to remove, or download some kind of 'nuke' program that completely removes it. I had a real nightmare getting rid of Stuffit once

True, but from a friend of mine, I was introduced to AppZapper from day 1 - I suppose that's a "nuke" program you're on about?

Perhaps I went abit over the top with the drag and drop issue - I'll rephrase, more often than not, you can just drag and drop unwanted programs.

dirtydog · 31 Jan 2007 at 12:25

JonB said:
Lmao. No. (Although it depends what you determine to be rubbish!)

/must resist saying OSX

Beepcake · 31 Jan 2007 at 12:30

Dr Jones said:
True, but from a friend of mine, I was introduced to AppZapper from day 1 - I suppose that's a "nuke" program you're on about?

Perhaps I went abit over the top with the drag and drop issue - I'll rephrase, more often than not, you can just drag and drop unwanted programs.

It's definately better than the way a lot of Windows programs work, I won't argue with that! I just like to point out whenever I think people are selling OS X through slightly rose tinted glasses