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Even easier. They have a build of 8.1 that doesn't contain the bloatware in the first place.
But that's not the point. For her, 8.x is new, and finding her way around 8.0 (before they smartened up and made 8.1 usable for laptop/desktop) would have been a time-consuming and frustrating chore toward a one-time desired outcome.
What's YOUR time worth?
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From: Gene Kim-Eng [mailto:techwr -at- genek -dot- com]
Sent: January-17-14 8:27 PM
To: McLauchlan, Kevin; salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Question about refurbished laptops
A hundred bucks to run the free MS update and uninstall bloatware? Where do I apply for that job?
Gene Kim-Eng
On 1/17/2014 7:44 AM, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
> Speaking of bloat-ware - and this is getting a little off the original question - when my wife recently bought her new Acer at BestBuy, the best hundred bucks she spent all year was the optional post-sale prep, in which the techs replaced Windows 8 with 8.1 and removed all the bloat-ware.
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