A:Answer The power cord that goes from the wall to the brick is kind of short compared to most. It's about 2.5 feet. The cord from the brick to the laptop is a little over three feet. The brick is not too large, but also not the smallest one I have had from HP. It's about twice the size of an Apple Macbook Pro brick.
There isn't any HP-specific bloatware on it, but Windows 10 comes with some stupid games, X-Box crud and other "Trial" ware out of the box, no matter what brand of PC you buy. You have to go through and uninstall what you can. Some of it is not easily un-installed but if you go to the "Programs and Features" applet in Control Panel, you can take it all out. You also have to clean up the Start menu which is full of stupid junk. I also turn off Cortana so she doesn't constantly nag me about her abilities, but Microsoft are making that harder to do with each release.
There is HP Support software installed, and of course all the necessary HP drivers, but I wouldn't call that "Bloatware". HP aren't taking a payoff from 3rd-rate software vendors to load the PC with useless software but apparently Microsoft are. That said, I like Windows 10 a ton. It's a huge upgrade over Windows 8, but you do need to spend an hour or so cleaning it up right out of the box. If you buy it from Best Buy though, you get a GeekSquad session for free, where you can get them to do that for you.
