Some strange ’special’ news from ASRock today, the company has issued a press release that states that the Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer is going to improve internet browsing. As ASRock is well known for their innovative motherboards that news immediately drew our attention. We expected some special technology inside the motherboards that would accelerate something related to the WiFI/Ethernet or some optimization of some kind.
Unfortunately we felt fooled when reading the release, the claim of ASRock to ’offer better browsing’ is nothing more than bundling the world’s most used browser Google Chrome and the Google Toolbar on their driver CD.
Yes, you read that right. ASRock has issued a press release announcing they will improve internet browsing and all they do is offering Google Chrome on their driver disk. What more to expect? They will enhance your computer security by adding AVG Free on their driver disk? Or increasing your multimedia experience by putting VLC on the disk? We can’t wait for more innovation!
3 Comments on ASRock to improve your internet browsing – wait a minute!?
| Yes, you read that right. ASRock has issued a press release announcing they will improve internet browsing and all they do is offering Google Chrome on their driver disk. What more to expect? They will enhance your computer security by adding AVG Free on their driver disk? Or increasing your multimedia experience by putting VLC on the disk? We can’t wait for more innovation! |
Personally i think that mainboard/device manufacturers should stay the hell away from anything that has nothing to do with making a perfect driver system for every operating system out there.
But i get the "sponsorship" idea. Sometimes it makes hardware cheaper by adding crapware to their system. And you can put 4.5 Gb on a single dvd. Why waste it with just a measly driver of 250kb eh?
no wait .... the drivers are still 250kB, but they come bundled in a 250MB installer which includes cross-promotional videos and images and music and crapware which the hardware vendor has "selected" (the highest bidder) to be relevant to its customers ...
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