Re: That nice Sony company

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 18:22:59 -0800, "Joel Kolstad"
<JKolstad71HatesSpam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"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!
>
>

Hey, I have a newish Vaio, and the replacement battery from Sony is
about $300. What's the thing I should remove?

John

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