Hello all,
I refresh the underlying OS very often - as in once every 2 months - on all my machines (except my wife's and kid's).
Over the last 10 years, my experience has been entirely with machines I have built and installed OSes on and IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad laptops.
Obviously on machines I have built, I simply re-install the OS (or restore from backup) to start again.
Thinkpads have a great feature buried in the Thinkvantage suite that re-installs the base OS with a few clicks of a mouse. If you do it right, you can even suppress the installation of most of the bloatware that comes standard.
Although I haven't narrowed in on a vendor yet (Lenovo and IBM are largely out due to cost), for the first time in years, I am thinking of getting desktops pre-built by a vendor that comes with the OEM version of the OS. In checking prices, it is so hard to compete when you have to buy case, chip, mb, ps, RAM, hd and OS. I have a few questions though:
1) Do other vendors offer a similar rebuild feature as Thinkvantage? If so which vendors?
2) If I use the retail media to install Windows 7, can I use the OEM key provided by the vendor? If not, how am I supposed to re-install the OS in case of HD failure or similar.
3) Do other vendors make it easy to remove the bloatware that comes standard with their OS prior to install or do I have to install it and then remove it?
Thanks a lot.
I refresh the underlying OS very often - as in once every 2 months - on all my machines (except my wife's and kid's).
Over the last 10 years, my experience has been entirely with machines I have built and installed OSes on and IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad laptops.
Obviously on machines I have built, I simply re-install the OS (or restore from backup) to start again.
Thinkpads have a great feature buried in the Thinkvantage suite that re-installs the base OS with a few clicks of a mouse. If you do it right, you can even suppress the installation of most of the bloatware that comes standard.
Although I haven't narrowed in on a vendor yet (Lenovo and IBM are largely out due to cost), for the first time in years, I am thinking of getting desktops pre-built by a vendor that comes with the OEM version of the OS. In checking prices, it is so hard to compete when you have to buy case, chip, mb, ps, RAM, hd and OS. I have a few questions though:
1) Do other vendors offer a similar rebuild feature as Thinkvantage? If so which vendors?
2) If I use the retail media to install Windows 7, can I use the OEM key provided by the vendor? If not, how am I supposed to re-install the OS in case of HD failure or similar.
3) Do other vendors make it easy to remove the bloatware that comes standard with their OS prior to install or do I have to install it and then remove it?
Thanks a lot.
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