Posted on 08/27/2007 11:35:59 AM PDT by Abathar
First radios, then televisions, vcrs, stereos, finall computers.
I beleive they make Golf components - iron and wood heads.
I’m just highlighting that another big chunk of America’s tech/electronics industry is bought out by Asia.
Acer or Wistron makes load sof stuff. Also, they make the X-Box and X-Box 360.
A-Open is their peripherals division.
(I am hard on my laptops as I drag them around everywhere. No use spending a bundle on something that will not last more than a couple of years of my banging around.)
I spent two days fixing up the hard drive; it has been pretty good ever since. Not bad for the ~$700 price tag.
My wife and I got one of the lower end Aspire models for our main home computer about 2 years ago for $500. My harddrive was partitioned the same weird way, although I have free access to the second partition and just use CD’s for the backup. If the OS goes, I’ll turn it into a linux machine and buy another dirt cheap laptop. I don’t know if I’d trust it for travel — battery life was only about 65 minutes when new.
I used Partition Magic to delete the second partition, stretch the first one to fill the whole drive then converted it to NTFS. I don't need Acer's crapware to do what Windows can already do for itself, so I uninstalled it all, including the system backup stuff.
I called Acer, then Microsoft to get the straight dope on the lack of a Windows install CD. This is the first commercial PC I have bought in over 15 years, so I had no idea how screwed up things had gotten in that time.
I still can't believe that OEMs can build and sell a computer with no O/S installation media included. I pointed out to the Microsoft guy that, by not having a Windows install CD, a large portion of their knowledgebase is useless.
All those instructions about booting to your Windows CD and running the Restore Console? Nope.
Now, the only solution to many Windows problems is to use the factory restore image to wipe out everything on my machine and put it back to the way it was delivered.
Nice, Microsoft. Great way to give your customers what they want there.
I think Gateway was selling last week for $2 bucks a share. At the height of the Dot/Com bubble it was around $170 a share...
With most pc’s these days, they give you a one time shot at creating your own media with XP on it. Did yours?
Did MS tell you they had no control over Acer’s business practices? I’m really interested in this.
Thanks.
WOW! Acer is really coming up in the world. Gateway owns E-Machine. So now Acer will own three PC brands. Acer is Taiwanese company
Obviously that’s an Acer problem, not Microsoft. FYI it’s known as an OEM version of Windows, so the distributor, Acer, decided what you got. You should have bought American, like I did, if more people had Gateway might be buying Acer instead.
China is now trying to buy Seagate, the hard drive manufacturer as well. Hopefully it will be blocked, but since they were already allowed to buy the entire IBM PC division, I doubt it.
So????
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