News Acer makes strides to take over the world

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  1. Da Dego

    Da Dego Brett Thomas

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  2. UncertainGod

    UncertainGod Minimodder

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    Acer do make decent laptops, never looked at there other kit as it would be a cold day in hell before I would buy a pre-built desktop PC.
     
  3. Matt_117

    Matt_117 What's a Dremel?

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    The notebooks are nice and sleek to look at, unlike the performance after a re-install of the OS...
     
  4. jswilson64

    jswilson64 What's a Dremel?

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    I won't buy another one. My Aspire 5100-series is dog-slow, and out of the box wouldn't even work right half the time. I had to remove the Acer power-management software and install Notebook Hardware Control before it'd quit freezing up. It had something to do with the display brightness settings. Anyway, to ship a product that's crippled by its own software is unforgiveable (as is NewEgg's notebook return policy, but that's another story).
     
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    airchie What's a Dremel?

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    If Acer took some of their profits and invested it in decent customer support I would be happy for them... :/
     
  6. FR34K

    FR34K What's a Dremel?

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    Acer, last I hear, is or has bought out Gateway, which means Acer = Acer, Gateway, and eMachine
     
  7. HourBeforeDawn

    HourBeforeDawn a.k.a KazeModz

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    okay Acer low-end to about mid-range laptop/desktop are complete garbage BUT their upper mid-range to high-end laptop/desktop are pretty nice and even better when you look at the price to hardware ratio your getting the best bang for your buck compared to a lot of the other competitors so over not to shabby.
     
  8. Duste

    Duste Sierra my delta, bravo!

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    'Sif bring my mum in to it. :(
     
  9. Cupboard

    Cupboard I'm not a modder.

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    After taking 3 months to fix a hard drive under warranty, I wouldn't recommend them to anyone (the reason it took so long was because they kept on breaking the screen!)
     
  10. ou7blaze

    ou7blaze sensational.

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    Wouldn't recommend Acer, always had bad experiences with em.

    Had the UGLIEST beige pc cases anyone could design aswell :p
     
  11. Xen0phobiak

    Xen0phobiak SMEGHEADS!

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    I work at a computer shop where we used to sell lots of acer products, but now we sell hardly any acer's as we've had too many problems with them. My dad has/had an Aspire 5101AWLMI that he bought in feb, and its spent about 2 months away for repair in total since he's had it. Several times they just ran the restore disc when it had serious hardware/electrical problems. I wouldn't reccomend their laptops, but their turnaround on desktops is pretty good, and they do some nice monitors.
     
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