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Hello guys!
I'm sorry if my english isn't perfect but I'm an exchange student from Italy and now I'm living in Oregon for one year.

I would like to buy a laptop and so I'm already coming back from Circuit City where there was an offer for the Acer Aspire 5102:

AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50
15.4" WXGA display
1 GB of DDR2 memory
120 GB Hard drive
DVD Super multi drive
Integrated web cam

for the price of $800 instead then $900

the problem is this:

they said that I have to pay other $95 for the cleanup of the computer with the society "firedog" (partner of circuitcity) because the computer have a lot of trial programs and they said that is very very slow.

My question is:
I really need to clean the computer?
Is really slower??


Thank you