Acer laptops cheaper than the rest, why?

[inman999]

My sisters wants a new laptop and asked me to have look to see what she can get for her £500 budget. Had a quick look at all the usual suspects and the Acer laptops are coming out cheaper like for like compared to Dell, HP etc. When I say like for like I mean processors, RAM, Hard drive and graphics card, about the limit of my knowledge.

Basically want to know if there's a catch and Acer's should be avoided.

[inman999]

Sounds good then.

I was/am worried that the parts I know very little about, motherboard etc are crap to reduce the costs.