New PC experience

Owners of a new Mac are greeted by the Apple experience which is consistent and clean. New PC owners are often greeted with a cluttered desktop and several “buy me” advertisements. I hear this is one of the ways manufacturers keep PC costs down.

I don’t know how many complaints I’ve heard from new PC owners about store technicians wanting $30 bucks to remove spyware that came with the computer.

Now the techs are selling a tune up for your new PC. I have worked on a few PCs that supposedly had a tune-up. Given the store relationship with PC manufacturers I would expect better. What kind of training do they give these techs? Most folks have techy friends who can do a better job.

It looks like the media is noticing… In-Store “Optimization” Is Usually Useless, Often Slows Down PCs – Optimization – Lifehacker.