Pet Peeves
I just bought myself a new computer and reinstalling all of the software is one of those activities that I don’t particularly enjoy but I can live with that. What I find incredibly annoying is that a new computer and freshly downloaded antivirus software (direct from the manufacturers site) required almost 3 GB of updates.
I understand that computer manufacturers simply install a standard system image on all machines of a certain type but why is there nobody who updates their image? I would settle for it being done once every two months to sharply reduce the size of the updates needing to be applied but all of the manufacturers that I have bought from don’t bother to do anything but install the standard image from Microsoft.
The situation with the manufacturers drivers is just as bad. A new laptop needing more than 800 MB of updated drivers a month after manufacture (figured from the warranty dates) is simply inexcusable. I understand that many of the hardware manufacturers put out new drivers quite rapidly but most of the update packages installed had been available over a month prior to the laptop’s manufactured date.
The antivirus vendors also need to apply updates to their downloadable packages. What excuse can there be for having to apply an update twice the size of the original downloaded software package and then, after a restart, another update almost as large as the original installer package?
When I find a company that provides a decent specification and includes all but the most recent software and driver updates I will buy their product.
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