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Yup... my girlfriend's parents were amazed when I reloaded Windows ME (yep, they're stuck in the stone age) on their computer. They had so much spyware and crap installed that it took ages to do anything. I wiped it clean, reloaded ME and a good virus scanner, set up their firewall, and everything's been speedy since.
I'll bet Dell hates me... they wanna get another few years out of this computer now!
It's not just Macs that last a long time in theory -- although in real life that's usually the case since we're not targets of virii and spyware as much as Windows is. I'll bet at least half of the people looking for a new, faster computer do so because their current one is slow due to spyware and crap software all over the place. Little do they realize it's not the computer that's slow, but the software...
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