Software bundled with MBP?

[Stella]

Hi

I got my MBP ( Penyrn ) recently but unlike my previous Macs, it came with no additional software, free or trial aside from iLife and OSX.

Is this correct?

 

[forafireescape]

That's all I got.

 

[Shannighan]

so no trial of iWork or w.e its called?

 

[Stella]

so no trial of iWork or w.e its called?

Nope,nothing, not even graphic converter etc!

 

[Shannighan]

hmmm i dont know if i considder that bad or good

i wouldnt mind having the iWork trial installed off the bat, save me the hastle of downloading the trial or installing from the discs

some trials/ software would be OK, as long as its nothing like buying a windows computer from a company.

 

[mrkgoo]

I'm actually pretty happy mine came with such a clean slate. I was transferring enough crap from my old Powerbook, I didn't want to have to go through deleting the stuff I was never going to use anyway.

 

[cobbe1]

I like it better this way. This is pretty much a fresh install, just add what you want and no need to worry about what's left behind. 😀

 

[keithos27]

Thank God they did away with all the "extra" stuff pre-installed. Let each user decide what he/she wants that's extra. I'm most thankful that Office Test Drive isn't on there. 🙂

 

[valvehead]

Thank God they did away with all the "extra" stuff pre-installed. Let each user decide what he/she wants that's extra. I'm most thankful that Office Test Drive isn't on there. 🙂

This is probably my #1 reason for buying a Mac. I got fed up with prebuilt PCs coming loaded with adware and useless utilities. I built my own mid-tower four years ago so that I could choose exactly what hardware and software I wanted installed. I decided a many months ago that I needed a laptop, and the thought of buying a PC laptop made me nauseous. I started looking at Macs. I got won over by the simplicity of OSX. The switch to Intel chips meant that I wouldn't have to give up my masses of software. I am now happily dual-platform.

 

[Stella]

Thank God they did away with all the "extra" stuff pre-installed. Let each user decide what he/she wants that's extra. I'm most thankful that Office Test Drive isn't on there. 🙂

Definitely, the vast majority of the trial software is junk. Comic Life and graphics converter was useful / fun tho.