Posted on 06/30/2009 12:49:58 PM PDT by TChris
This year, Acer appears poised to overtake Dell as the world’s second-largest seller of personal computers, which would put a real dent into one of America’s favorite dorm-to-empire business stories. And if this comes to pass, Acer would trail only Hewlett-Packard; no computer company based outside the United States has ever climbed so high.
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Acers are good low-end-to-mid-level PCs.
Tech Ping please? :-)
I bought my Acer because of the price. Besides, most components seem to come from China anyway.
One important point - Acer’s tech support department isn’t in India.
Acer is a good choice if:
1) You know your way around fdisk, qpart, etc
2) You have built your own before
3) You can do you own tech support
4) You can load and unload OSes at will
5) You want to pay the lowest possible price for reasonably good hardware
Just my opinion
I am typing on an Acer Aspire netbook now, $350 at Costco. It does email and surfing and keeps my DH and me from fighting over the computer. Also it travels really well due to the size.
Pakistan....Afghanistan....Kurdistan? Where is it?
Obama voters buy Acer?
I agree.
May I add an OR to your list?
-OR- You don't have terribly high expectations for your computer anyway. (The performance deficit of a factory-configured Acer wouldn't bug you.)
Canada, I believe.
It's doggone good, I'm only using it to play movies from the NAS and off of Netflix so it doesn't see any heavy duty use but price/performance has been so good that I'm going for their AH340-UA230N home server to replace the first gen NAS box that I'm not real fond of.
No way could I build something in those form factors for those prices.
Anyhting BUT HP. I dont have a problem with Dell because I have friends who speak Flip and they can sweet talk the tech people. My HP laptop has got to be the worse bar-none.
HP’s CS line is India, but the 1st tier is Canada, but they have an attitude problem as well.
FAT32 partition may be a utility partition which includes restore options??? Some laptops are configured that way.
I understand what you mean about fluffware. I spend a good bit of time removing it on busienss level laptops, which makes me nuts.
For some reason the PC assembly manufacturing industry has been historically one of meteoric rises and falls. More so than most industries than I can think of.
The restore partition was FAT32 as well, but the main Windows partition came from the factory as FAT32.
Bizarre.
It's easy enough to fix, but how many average users will pop up the command prompt and type "C:\>convert c: /fs:ntfs"?
I've followed that course with every PC I've owned.
I have been happy with Dell over the past 10-12 years. My only complaint is that the final prices are not as low as you initially expect. The quality has been good.
The best quality PC I ever owned was an IBM PS2. It had a 10” color monitor, upgraded to 250K RAM and a 40M (supersized) hard disk. The 286 CPU was a little slow, with 1-2 wait cycles.
The 1988 street price for that model was $4500. I got a 50% discount buying it through my university. It ran Word for DOS and very little else. However, it just would not die, and no one would take it as a donation. Finally, I had to take it out of the basement and apply my 10 lb. sledge hammer.
Yeah. A guy can't build a box for what he can buy one these days. ...at least until you get up there in the price spectrum a bit.
Same here. (My employers for the past 15 years or so have all been 98% Dell shops.)
With only a few oopses along the way (The first black Optiplex cases, the GX260s with the bad electrolytic capacitors, a handfull of bad Maxtor and Seagate HDDs...) I have to say that I've been quite pleased with the Dells I work with.
Oh, and DELL INCLUDES A WINDOWS SETUP DISC WITH THEIR MACHINES!! I wish the others would learn.
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