Laptops come with all that extra bundled crap, but when you just install the
OS it about 4GB.

Add that bundle to the standard Win 7 (11GB) and you now have 17GB

XP installs cabs too, putting every driver on my system when I'll never use
them is ridiculous.

My backups double in size, No there is no excuse for this, If office is
included maybe, but it isn't

It's just pure bad programming. No regard for resources. Bloat Bloat Bloat !

 

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From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Craig
White
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:34 PM
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Subject: Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin
(Was:Re:newhotness?)

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 13:26 -0700, Stephen wrote:
> "Just look at Vista and Windows 7, could someone please explain why 
> the OS went from 4GB in Win Xp to 11GB in Vista and Win 7 ??? without 
> gaining and new usability. Sure it's got nifty graphics, but 7GB worth ?
> Really can anybody explain where the 7Gb went ?"
> 
> I know a large part of that is actually in a extracted set of cabs so 
> they don't have to "get the CD" all the time for driver installs and 
> updates ect or feature adds.
----
I think the general intent is that disk space, like RAM is cheap and they
don't much care about wasted disk space.

My new Acer Aspire One. Windows XP SP3 w/ Open Office (MS Office Trial
version removed), AVG Free 8.0 (MacAfee Trial version removed), Acrobat
Reader, Flash, Firefox, Thunderbird weighs in at just under 10 Gb.
Fedora 10, a fairly robust install with both Gnome and KDE and a lot of
games and applications, just under 5 Gb.

Obviously on an SSHD system, space is a premium which is why all of the Acer
Aspire Ones w/ SSHD are Linux only.

Craig

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