Acer laptops cheaper than the rest, why?

[LeeThr]

I did have an acer up untill october when I suspect the GPU might have given up. It was something major anyway. New MB job really. The price of getting one really wasnt worth it for the age of it. It lasted me 4 years but it didnt half get some abuse the poor thing.

[tinman0]

mcflurry said:

Aren't most laptops made by the same handful of manufacturers anyway?

Yes, but the design work is usually done by the brand company.

[missdiane]

I'm having a clear out, is it safe to remove the Acer programs on computer? eManagement stuff?

[voyds9]

missdiane said:

I'm having a clear out, is it safe to remove the Acer programs on computer? eManagement stuff?

Try this works a treat on mine. Stops programs from starting or delays start until later. Saved over one minute on start up (vista)

http://www.soluto.com/Download/

[plasticpig]

tinman0 said:

mcflurry said:

Aren't most laptops made by the same handful of manufacturers anyway?

Yes, but the design work is usually done by the brand company.

Not the case for a lot of laptops and certainly not Acer. Acer laptops are designed and manufactured by Wistron or Compal Electronics. These two companies also design and build laptops for Dell, HP, Toshiba etc.

[missdiane]

voyds9 said:

missdiane said:

I'm having a clear out, is it safe to remove the Acer programs on computer? eManagement stuff?

Try this works a treat on mine. Stops programs from starting or delays start until later. Saved over one minute on start up (vista)

http://www.soluto.com/Download/

Not bad! 5.5 mins to 2.44 mins- no issues yet..., thanks for that

[nonuts]

plasticpig said:

tinman0 said:

mcflurry said:

Aren't most laptops made by the same handful of manufacturers anyway?

Yes, but the design work is usually done by the brand company.

Not the case for a lot of laptops and certainly not Acer. Acer laptops are designed and manufactured by Wistron or Compal Electronics. These two companies also design and build laptops for Dell, HP, Toshiba etc.

That isn't quite true well at least in the past, some models WERE designed by Acer even after the split with Wistron however it's a while since I worked there.

[ShadownINja]

At previous company, three Acer desktops all with same reboot problem after 2 years. I say Acer, I mean Arser.

[NDA]

inman999 said:

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.

I bought an Acer for my kids to use, it's a net book rather than a laptop, I guess that means it's fine for browsing rather than computing. Anyhoo, it's been pretty reliable.

[LOGiK]

I tend to find acer just don't have the build quality some other laptops do. What I mean by this is cheap plastics, cheap feel, inaccessible parts and flawed design (IE dust accumulation on heatsink that you can't clean without stripping the whole laptop down)

Honestly, check out pcspecialist, they seem to beat everyone on prices and I'm definitely considering getting one now.

[rottie102]

Three Acers here:
1) Aspire 8930 as a desktop replacement - 18.4", Blu-Ray etc - very happy with it for over a year
2) Travelmate something for last 4 years, brilliant little thing, still runs strong, I love its alloy housing.
3) just bought a touchscreen, tablet/laptop 11" (don't remember the model) - very nice for travel laptop, although a bit on the heavy side.

I would definitely buy/recommend Acer over ANY other laptop manufacturer.

[MilnerR]

Bought an Acer for my sister and a Sony Vaio for me. The Acer is still going fine after 5 years, the Vaio lasted 18 months before the mother-board went pop! One cost ~750 quid the other one ~350 quid! I know which I'd have next!

[Ynox]

Won't touch them with a bargepole.

2003 I bought 2 Acer laptops, both high end Travelmate 800s. One was a Centrino 1.3GHz at about £1300, one a Centrino 1.6GHz at £1600.

The former of these 2 had the Motherboard fail outside of warranty. The latter had the Motherboard fail twice during the warranty period.

Admittedly these took a beating but they were from the Acer 'business' range at the time. Screens were good though (1400*1050 15" ones).

I now use Apple/Lenovo laptops.