Acer laptops cheaper than the rest, why?
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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.
Basically want to know if there's a catch and Acer's should be avoided.
te Tosh I have at the moTheD said:
Because they are Pish. That of course is my own opinion and you will have a load of Acer fans telling you how great they are. In my line of work the Acer laptops are the ones we see most often and are never very old.
Do they still have the acer pish still on them, and then having aload of crap added on. Or is it that becuase the acer is cheaper people buy them so there more of them.All laptops come with useless programs on them, If dell did a laptop that was £50 cheaper that all the rest, then you would get alot of dell's.
Treat a car well and it will run well, treat a computer crap it will stop.
Edited by Robert Burns on Friday 31st December 00:45
inman999 said:
Sounds good then.
I was/am worried that the parts I know very little about, motherboard etc are crap to reduce the costs.
I should image that stuff like that is pretty generic, it's the mechanical bits that let you down......like a sagging battery compartment in my Tosh and it's ability to imagine the mouse function was asked to do anythingI was/am worried that the parts I know very little about, motherboard etc are crap to reduce the costs.
I think the materials are cheaper. I have an Acer that I bought a few years ago. It was a good laptop and great value for money. Over time the battery did fail, the plastic started cracking in several places and some of the keys became less responsive. However I did use it very heavily for more than 4 years and despite the niggles it's still functional today as long as the battery is removed (new battery for it is only £40 and easy to change).
I would say go for it but don't expect the best quality materials and don't expect it to last forever if you are a heavy user.
On the other hand I must add that it was a good few years before it starting showing any signs of deterioration, no major parts failed e.g. motherboard and I did use it literally every day; so don't be put off, especially if your sister is a more casual user.
I would say go for it but don't expect the best quality materials and don't expect it to last forever if you are a heavy user.
On the other hand I must add that it was a good few years before it starting showing any signs of deterioration, no major parts failed e.g. motherboard and I did use it literally every day; so don't be put off, especially if your sister is a more casual user.
Robert Burns said:
Do they still have the acer pish still on them, and then having aload of crap added on. Or is it that becuase the acer is cheaper people buy them so there more of them.
All laptops come with useless programs on them,
Try http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/All laptops come with useless programs on them,
Tony
Spree said:
I think the materials are cheaper. I have an Acer that I bought a few years ago. It was a good laptop and great value for money. Over time the battery did fail, the plastic started cracking in several places and some of the keys became less responsive. However I did use it very heavily for more than 4 years and despite the niggles it's still functional today as long as the battery is removed (new battery for it is only £40 and easy to change).
I would say go for it but don't expect the best quality materials and don't expect it to last forever if you are a heavy user.
On the other hand I must add that it was a good few years before it starting showing any signs of deterioration, no major parts failed e.g. motherboard and I did use it literally every day; so don't be put off, especially if your sister is a more casual user.
I would say go for it but don't expect the best quality materials and don't expect it to last forever if you are a heavy user.
On the other hand I must add that it was a good few years before it starting showing any signs of deterioration, no major parts failed e.g. motherboard and I did use it literally every day; so don't be put off, especially if your sister is a more casual user.
Exactly my experience as well, particularly the materials point. They feel a bit cheaper, but they're perfectly functional.I get a very high spec Dell laptop with my job - duo core and tons of memory etc. I bought an e-machines (even lower budget machine made by Acer) for the wife and kids to wreck about 3 years ago. The only differences I notice are that the e-machines is more flimsy with a much lighter case and that the battery life is a lot shorter. There is no discernable difference in speed or reliability. It is an excellent little machine. I would buy another without any hesitation.
By the way, it replaced an ages old Acer which only died after repeated trips to the floor.
By the way, it replaced an ages old Acer which only died after repeated trips to the floor.
MikeGTi said:
doodles19 said:
(Insert apple fan boy speech here)
+1
In all seriousness, when looking for my current laptop, I had a budget of 500 quid in mind, and was looking at getting an aspire. In the end, I ended up spending over 1100 quid on a MacBook
Brilliant decision, the quality is quality is incomparable, and had I bought the acer, it would have been worth a third of bugger all by now.
HereBeMonsters said:
I've seen HP and Sony laptops fail as often as Acer.
This.And you have to compare like-for-like, the business series (mid & high end, starting from £1000) of HP is very good, Elitebooks and the like, however, their "cheap" laptops (pavillions for example) are exactly that: cheap.
Acer are cheap, and you get what you pay for. Are they rubbish? Not in my opinion, but I would never buy a sub £700 laptop, as I think the majority of them are cheap in both senses of the word.
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