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Mossberg: Using Even New PCs Is Ruined by a Tangle Of Trial Programs, Ads

All these years, and they STILL haven’t gotten it right? Compare this to the first time you turn on a Mac. No comparison.

“I also was shocked at how long this machine took to restart and to do a cold start after being completely shut down. Restarting took over three minutes, and a cold start took more than two minutes. That suggests the computer is loading a bunch of stuff I neither know about nor want. By contrast, a brand new Apple MacBook laptop, under the same test conditions, restarted in 34 seconds and did a cold start in 29 seconds.”

Using Even New PCs Is Ruined by a Tangle Of Trial Programs, Ads