The frustrations of buying a brand new PC

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Walt Mossberg buys a new Sony VAIO laptop and writes "The problem is a lack of respect for the consumer. The manufacturers don't act as if the computer belongs to you. They act as if it is a billboard for restricted trial versions of software and ads for Web sites and services that they can sell to third-party companies..."

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