G+_George Kozi Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 This came with my out of the box brand new monitor... I thought Acer was smarter than that... It's 2013 Acer... Acrobat reader? Really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted July 28, 2013 Author Share Posted July 28, 2013 The manual can be on the Internetz. There is no reason for leaky bucket bloatware anymore. As I said, it's 2013. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brian Gilbert (Ned Jaco Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 The problem is that everybody who uses a computer at their place of employment gets Adobe Reader force-fed to them there. That means they're familiar with it. That means Asus can be confident that it'll minimize their support costs if they provide it. It's sad, pathetic, and annoying. But at least the people in the know know not to install it. Or even look at any driver disc that comes with any piece of hardware ever. At least the disc doesn't come with "drivers." For a monitor. That always made me cringe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Scalici (Jay) Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Yea, there is no reason to create such waste when the info can be easily accessed on the web. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted July 28, 2013 Author Share Posted July 28, 2013 Just for fun, I asked Googzilla to tell me about Adobe reader vulnerabilities in 2013... It gave me a list... it looks like I'll have stuff to read... (not with reader, of course.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Richard Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Why is there not an AOL CD in there as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Robert Nugent (DFH) Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 When I last built my PC I omitted the floppy drive, but included an optical drive. So far the only things its been used for is to install the OS and rip audio CDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Blake Johnson Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Should have chrome instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Neil McAliece Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Shrug. Nothing wrong with pdf. As for Acrobat reader.... It's recognised as the thing that you read pdfs with even by novice users. They will say "oh PDF manual and that thing you read PDF manuals with" Acer's alternatives were to * Provide a printed manual (that's very 1985) * Provide a URL with an up to date online HTML manual (which is unlikely to still be there in 5 years where the owner may still have their CD.... + getting to a url is too hard for many users. The number of people I see typing urls into Google search and then clicking on an ad or some other rubbish.... result.... Acer fields more support enquirers from confused users) * Provide a plain text manual ... complaints from users about how ugly it is. * Provide a html file. Probably reasonable assuming it renders properly on the various browsers (dating back years that people will still be running). Fair chance if they keep it basic. * Provide Sumatra (windows) and Skim (OSX) as the PDF reader. Likely to still have vulnerabilities and users won't recognise them as that thing you read PDF manuals with :) I can get cranky with companies for a lot of things. Providing Acrobat Reader isn't one of them..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brent Cappello Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Just one of the many ways they subsidize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_tony taylor Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 Don't know about you but I try to download a manual to iBooks on my iPad before I buy anything, especially furniture from IKEA :-) Win8 had pretty good PDF support built in. As I remember my Samsung minister didnt come with drivers but some profiles four the PC to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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