Posted on 06/30/2009 12:49:58 PM PDT by TChris
This has always blown my mind. Why in the hell do they do this? Every ACER I've ever worked on, which have been many, I've always converted the filesystem to NTFS before doing anything else. At one point I was working on so many ACERS that people at work were bringing to me, I thought about calling myself an official ACER repair tech. lol
That’s a VERY good assessment!! lol
Tech support in India?
We own a Dell, a Toshiba, and a Gateway. I’ve called tech-support on all of them at one time or another and ALL of them are in India. They may all actually have the same tech-support. The world is out-sourced.
It's easy enough to fix, but how many average users will pop up the command prompt and type "C:\>convert c: /fs:ntfs"?
Made me laugh so hard I fell off my chair!!!! Most of my customers fall out when you try to get them to go to a command prompt.
The PC hardware industry is one of the few remaining bastions of nearly pure free enterprise. What one vendor does well to gain market share can be relatively easily dupicated by another.
As Capitalism is intended: the consumer wins... and wins... and wins.
As of the 1 GHz Pentium III -- roughly -- the home PC entered what had been the realm of the supercomputer (Cray 1). It takes even less time now for supercomputer power to become average user power than it did then.
How I love free enterprise. :-)
Two anecdotes?
My wife’s Compaq died at a convention- with all her stuff she needed on it! Rushed to Wallyworld, got an Aspire, she set it up while I pulled the Compaq HD and hooked it to a USB universal drive adaptor- day saved, and she loves the damned thing better than the two previous laptops.
Checking back at Wally? They can’t keep the things in stock.
See Korn's post at #22. Apparently, Acer thinks it's a good idea. *shrug*
Made me laugh so hard I fell off my chair!!!! Most of my customers fall out when you try to get them to go to a command prompt.
Yeah, I could almost hear users' hearts racing and see their eyes glazing over as I typed it. :-)
I’m with you on HP- NEVER AGAIN
The drive bays broke and I cannot reach my CD-ROM drive, the ‘cage’ that enclosed the disk drives is welded in place, there is no way to remove them.
The slots in the back to install hardware boards open up on NO SLOT!!!!
The tech support is horrendous and their software is a pain in the butt and crashes my system more than anything else
Had a late year shopping so when the Wii’s were all sold out I got THREE acers for my little girls for Christmas. They love them and so do I
Good cheap machines
Anymore comments about Acer laptops?
Yes.
Can you get it without paying the Micro$oft tax?
I do like picking the parts for my work machines but wow, it's starting to get to where it's just too expensive, maybe better to buy and toss after a year.
Looks like no, for now.
They used to have a Linux model, but I don't see one now.
Well all of the above is true except for apple - they have been able to build a strong brand - using all sorts of strategies - both engineering based as well as marketing based.
You think the PC industry's growth and success hasn't had an effect on Apple? I guarantee you it has.
Just as AMD's success has made Intel produce a better product at a lower price, the PC universe has continued to improve on all the Mac's dominant areas. That forces Apple to continuously improve the Mac as well, all thanks to free enterprise.
What you say is true, but that wasn’t really my point. My point was that it’s hard to build brand loyalty in the PC manufacturing business (hence the rises and falls) but the sole exception to that rule has been apple. Which I don’t say as an apple fanboy - just simply making the observation.
Ahh, OK. Gotcha.
You're right about that, with the possible exception of Dell. They've been around from the start, and more or less doing it right too.
I have a three-year-old Acer Travelmate 8204, and it’s easily the best laptop I’ve ever owned. I’m the kind of person that’s been building their own computers since they were in their teens (mid-90s) and has run the range of OSs - Linux (since Slackware ‘95), FreeBSD, Windows (since Windows For Workgroups 3.1), and even OSX (on my Dell Mini 9), and I work as a software engineer, so I think I’m pretty up-to-date on this stuff. If I buy another laptop, which I don’t see happening in the near future because I still love my Acer, it’ll more than likely be another Acer. It was even easy to upgrade (I updated the processor, memory, and HDD to the latest I could) and it runs Vista/Ubuntu perfectly.
At the time (not sure about now), it was hard to to find a laptop for as cheap as I did that had the resolution I wanted (1680x1050), and it looks great on my TV too.
The only issue I’ve had with it is that I had to replace the CPU fan (and occasionally I have to clean the dust out of it), and that was a little difficult to find (look on Ebay). Other than that, if you know what you’re doing, Acers are a great computer.
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