Sunday, November 23, 2008

What we have here is a failure to customize

I started looking at laptops again and have been toying with the options on a Dell Inspiron 13 at their site. There is a "compatibility alert" preventing me from continuing with my order though.
On the "Entertainment and Editing Software" screen I left the expensive copies of Adobe * Elements unchecked and I went one step further and unchecked the "Wild Tangent" shareware games that they wish to install for free. I don't really intend to use the installed OS but it's silly that you can't get this laptop without a bunch of shareware games. It's also really disingenuous to call this a compatibility problem, since this has nothing to do with compatibility and everything to do with advertisement.

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