Posted in Technology by - July 11th, 2008
Ok, maybe “cripple” is too strong a word… unless, like me, you do a lot of audio recording and Shoutcast broadcasting, which in turn makes full and complete control of your system sound settings mandatory.
Dell “disabled the Stereo Mix/Mono Mix/Wave Out sound recording function” on laptops, with no prior notice to it’s customers. Apparently, Dell is even asking you to pay an additional $99 if you find out about it and call support to have it fixed. Gateway does the same shit. There is evidence indicating that both caved to RIAA pressure to cripple audio on these machines. What a bunch of dicks.
Here’s the article by way of Slashdot.
More reason why (1) I’ll never buy a pre-built PC and (2) will never run a Windows as my daily OS again.
4 Responses to “Dell helps the RIAA cripple your computer”
isn’t a macbook a pre-built machine?
I knew you, I mean specifically you, were going to say that. I said “pre-built PC”, and a Mac is not a PC.
Just to be a pain… according to Merriam-Webster: PC
pc is a “personal computer” holding no reference to vendor or manufacturer.
HA whamp whamp.
so is a piece of hardware sold by apple inc that runs bootcamp a PC or a MAC? hrm…………………..hahahah
Right, if you’re a pedant.
Colloquially, everyone uses PC to mean “windows machine”, and knows it to be such.
When is the last time you heard anyone, Mac user or not, refer to a Mac as a PC? 1987?
A Mac Bootcamped to run Windows is still a Mac. It’s a Mac running Windows (which is sad all on it’s own).
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