A couple weeks ago, I purchased a brand new Sony VAIO Laptop from Best Buy.  I couldn’t pass over such a great deal, since the laptop was a door crasher with a heavy markdown in price. 

So far, my Sony OOBE (out-of-the-box) experience has been a total pain in the @ss.  Upon my first boot-up, I was inundated with a massive amount of bloatware that not only came pre-installed but slowed my laptop to a crawl.  From AOL to Symantec products, my entire computer was infected with all kinds of unnecessary programs.  At last count, there were over thirty programs I didn’t need or want to buy.  What a total waste of computer resources (snort, snort, snort).

I know profit margins with computer hardware can be razor thin.  All this Bloatware is probably where a sizeable portion of the profit is made.  Unfortunately, it’s also a great way to piss off customers, like me, and preventing others from purchasing a Sony laptop in the future.

In short, unless you have an entire day to uninstall these programs, I would highly advise a complete reformat with every new Sony VAIO Laptop.  You’re better off installing a fresh copy of Windows Vista rather than suffering the constant pain provided by all the Sony Bloatware.  Like the old saying goes, “You can’t judge a book by its cover”.  And with every Sony laptop, this saying is all too true.