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Re:What the Vaio Z says about Sony's little design problem by 5hoom on Monday November 14, 2011 @10:51PM (#3236929)
Cuteness aside, the out of the box experience with a mac is really good. Everything is polished and there are no nag screens when you first boot up. The first experience with a new Apple device seems carefully engineered to make the owner feel almost emotionally attached to it.

Contrast this to a lot of Windows laptops where your first boot requires running the gauntlet of nagware & cruft. The device itself might be just as capable (or more), but you've already either confused or annoyed the new user and reduced the likelihood of that immediate emotional attachment.

I know there are real business reasons why the cruft gets included, but I would argue that there are far more compelling reasons to leave it out.

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Re:What the Vaio Z says about Sony's little design problem by tikhonj on Monday November 14, 2011 @11:03PM (#3236964)
The first experience with Linux, Ubuntu in particular, is also quite good. I think the reason for this is that, in most people's minds, Windows is the default; everything else has to stand out to even be considered while Windows just has to mostly work.
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