Re: That nice Sony company

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> Makes you think twice or so about buying a Vaio laptop. What
> terrifying stealth crap might they load on them?

All the new VAIOs do come with a service pre-installed that spends its life
sitting around querying the battery ever now and then and -- if a non-Sony
battery is detected -- forces the laptop into hibernation after telling you
that only Sony brand batteries are supported!

Happily, the service that does this easy to remove... but still, it's annoying
that you're sucking up memory and CPU time to run a program that's only ever
going to make your VAIO less usable than it otherwise would be!



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