>>>Blacklisting a manufacturer based on crapware installed on a particular model is dumb.
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>>It's called voting with your wallet.
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>Hey, that's just lower prices for the rest of us. Unless you're an XKCD Black Hat, in which case you actually want a Toshiba: http://xkcd.com/958/

Actually, I'd do it to the airlines.

>>And the two pieces I mention are not crapware, they are spyware.
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>Pfft... you say tomato, ... Show some consideration for the exhibitionists, or even average Jacks/Jills who just want a candy bar: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3639679.stm
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>Just wipe anything you don't want - you're gonna do that anyways.

It takes whole day (and in case of my wife's Toshiba, just killing Symantec's racket took three hours). I'll simply save 50€ and buy one with no OS. Or, as I've seen several vendors do here, with FreeDOS :).