Even in spite of the low amount of potential bloatware they may have out of the box, they're never going to work as well as a true clean installation of the bare OS itself and then drivers installed as required then my applications after.Īlso, if there's a recovery partition on the hard drive or SSD, it's wasting space, so use whatever tool Dell includes to make the recovery discs (since they don't really include physical DVDs anymore to restore their machines). I always wipe 'em almost as soon as I get 'em out of the box 'cause there's just nothing I want kept around.
There isn't a lot of bloat on a default Dell laptop anymore, but even so I'd never use the OEM install, not even on Latitudes or Precisions (the only hardware I use is business class, I don't use consumer class pretty shiny plastic shit). You can always hit up and punch in the Service Tag for the laptop and grab the latest necessary network drivers in that respect and install them manually after Windows 10 is up and running. This second rule aspect can be difficult for some because it requires clean installation media and some folks don't want to go that far but with how Windows 10 works (and all new laptops come with it by default now) one can go get the Media Creation Tool from Microsoft, run it, allow it to make a USB stick (or create an ISO for safekeeping so you don't have to re-download the ~3GB of files needed more than once), and then do the clean installation of Windows 10 from that USB stick (or burned ISO if needed as that still fits on a single layer DVD but not for that much longer because they're getting larger all the time meaning the install files).Īll the drivers you'll need to get the laptop functional will be in Windows 10 almost all the time but on occasion you might discover a network driver (either for an actual hardline NIC if the laptop has support for the RJ-45 jack or it's got some funky wireless card like from Broadcom which will not allow their drivers to be distributed by Windows Update) could be missing but it's somewhat rare nowadays.
Second rule of buying OEM laptops: wipe the fucker as soon as possible and do a complete clean installation of Windows (whatever the version of the OS it comes with happens to be, such as Home, Pro, whatever) First rule of buying OEM laptops: avoid the consumer models if at all possible, and that would mean Dell Inspirons in favor of their Latitude or Precision series business class hardware but I know that because of supply and demand they do sell more Inspirons hence the prices being lower on the consumer hardware.
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