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Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by JustSomeNobody on Thursday July 19, 2018 @11:02AM (#17566920)
I bought my last Macbook Pro from Best Buy. I had just moved and still had a coupon. No crapware to be found.
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by scarface74 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @11:17AM (#17567096)
Apple products never have third party crapware. I was referring to Windows computers
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by superflyguy on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:02PM (#17567570)
You don't need third party crap when you're getting a machine with Apple Maps and iTunes. Don't Microsoft make it easy to remove all the crap ware these days?
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by scarface74 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:02PM (#17568307)
Crapware == Crippleware where the OEM bundles third party trial software with the intended purpose of getting you to purchase the full version.

Notepad, the regular old command prompt, or IE is not generally considered "crapware". No matter how bad they are.

Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by hellojason on Friday July 20, 2018 @08:39AM (#17574479)
I must defend Notepad here. I enjoy having a simple text editor included on my machine that doesn’t try correct words or style anything. I often paste text from Word or Google Docs into Notepad, then paste into a WYSIWYG editor simply to remove all the inline span tags and other crust. Comes in handy when training others how to WordPress, for instance. TextEdit, on the other hand, is a rich text editor and gets in the way for this use case.
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by loco5niner on Friday July 20, 2018 @06:36PM (#17579560)
What's wrong with "the regular old command prompt"? It's served me well for ages.
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon by emodendroket on Friday July 20, 2018 @07:02PM (#17579684)
Kind of weak line editing capabilities and annoying script compared to the alternatives. I'm a PS fan though.