In an interview with DigiTimes , Acer president Jim Wong spoke about Windows 8 and its future with different kinds of touchscreen laptops, traditional computers, and tablets. Despite the fact that Acer's North America president Emmanuel Fromont recently told the New York Times that demand for Windows 8 was weak, Wong defended the operating system, saying people need more time to learn how it works before deeming it a failure.
In the past, market observers would accuse Windows of lacking innovations. And Windows 8 with brand new features have still been greeted with pessimism. Some observers believe the new interface and touchscreen control will dramatically delay adoption by consumers. Joined Nov 8, Messages 5, 0. I spent a lot of time researching Acer after spotting their Gemstone Blue range of laptops. It seems like Acer can be hit and miss, they can make really poor products, but then make amazing ones.
Joined Nov 15, Messages 0. I love the thing. If you know much about hardware then you shouldn't care about the brand name on the laptop. Otherwise everything else is pretty much standard if you compare the low end of different makers. The plastic is a little thinner than my girlfriends work laptop Compaq that is built like a tank. Just treat it like you would a computer and it'll be fine.
Joined Mar 21, Messages 1, 0. Joined Feb 15, Messages 3, 0. Acer to me is fine, but I would choose asus, dell or lenovo. Joined Feb 17, Messages 73 0. I use laptops all day everyday and at moment have HP and Acer. There are small differences which for me distinguish top tier and mid tier. From a usuability point of view, my Acer was designed by someone who doesn't use laptops very much. The hot air exhaust is on the back, and if resting on your lap is easy to cover over.
The USBs are on back, with non on side. If you are using on lap it is easy to put undue pressure on things plugged in. The keys are flimisier, and after a year the backspace fails to register very occasionally. Finally it is rigid, but not rock solid. The HP is all the above but the complete opposite.
I have also dropped it numerous times and I have probably done more damage to the floor. Acer stuff is ok, and not expensive, so you get what you pay for. Every part in the device was changed at some point, including the screen. It made me think of the story of the roadsweeper who proudly claimed he had his broom for 20 years, adding in that time it has had 15 new heads and 10 new handles. Tau New Member.
Joined Mar 9, Messages 0. Acer makes a cheap prodcut period. They user lower end plastics, as well as assembly. I hate working on Acer laptops If budget is an issue then get an acer Joined Dec 5, Messages 7, 1. Beertintedgoggles said:. Lenovo's I love, no issues yet, up to about 30 now with no RMA's and no problems. Only drawback is built in software for wireless cards sucks, but you can fix that by loading a different driver. Lan drivers that will install the Dell I believe it is for the realtek wireless cards.
Let me put it this way and see if you will touch an Acer Dell's quality in notebooks has fallen to trash across their lines Data rate seems lower than it should, so that when watching dvds the audio is not coming through properly.
Tried new drivers, everything, nothing helped. Didnt send it in because i knew it would take ages and i didnt really care. The black spot doesn't look good. Changed the hard drive 2 years ago. A little bit better now, but it's still undercooled. So all in all it was a nice laptop for the price though the CPU was a very bad one even for 5 years ago , and i'm happy that it still works 5 years later; but as you can see it was not without flaws and I would not have bought this product if I had known its flaws.
As for the Z, which is a more recent model, it makes it apparent to me that Acer have come a long way since and it's a really nice little notebook. However, no things Acer ever are perfect, it seems, as the notebook sometimes freezes when playing sound be it youtube or mp3 through media player , which is a rather odd behaviour. Also, it's recently begun to show some display errors like this one: this is why Acer doesn't have a very good reputation.
The problem is that, especially with laptops, by the time sufficient feedback about how well a specific model ages is available, that model is going to be outdated. If it's only a gig with Vista you might want to go into bios and set the video card to the lowest settings. The VC robs from ram so if it is set to the highest settings you would only have about mb then Vista is taking about half of that.
That leave you with a ram equivalent of back in the stone age. In my I put a 2gb stick in and left one of the mb in the other slot to take care of the vid card. I also dropped Vista for Ubuntu. A couple just last year sued Acer for a slow aspire running Vista. RyRyMcFry Honorable. Mar 1, 2 0 10, 0. The only thing i know about ACER is that their motherboards tend to go.
And now my sister dropped off her ACER aspire one because her keyboard and touch pad stopped working, which is pointing to another motherboard problem. She just got it on christmas and has also had wifi problems. I bought an Acer laptop and a month later the hard-drive failed. A month later after repairs it failed again. The cooling fan broke along with the battery.
I repaired the battery and installed a new cooling fan however the laptop began to hang. I performed a system restore which wiped my Operating system instead using acer erecovery. That is why they have a bad rep. Jan 20, 0 18, 1. When Nvidia provided the onboard graphics a few years ago for low to mid-range laptop, Acer took the brunt of the soldering defects. And they often refused to fix it in a timely fashion. Now, everyone was affected by that crap: Even Apple and Sony and certainly HP but because most people in the low budget range used Acers, they got the bulk of the blame.
I love my Acer netbook. But some of their larger models had plastickey flimsey construction that was prone to breaking solder joints. WaldoSchaeffer Honorable. May 27, 1 0 10, 0. My first experience with Acer was awefull.
I had a desktop computer that was probably a pentium 3. I would turn it on, it would boot up normally, and then after about five minutes lock up. From that point on I hated Acer. Only now I realize that it wasn't the machines fault, but a software related issue. I have an Acer Aspire Laptop right now, and I love it. I've never had any issues with it, and it just plain works.
Drivers aren't an issue when I reformat it, they don't make me install all these extra programs that are as good as useless just to get my display working I don't see what people are complaining about. Maybe they made a few products that where just plain bad, but I think the new computers are so much better than what they where making before. Humberto Forcelledo Honorable. Apr 7, 1 0 10, 0. The Taiwanese mentality is very different to ours.
Acer didn't even burn in their product and their parts were junk. They did buy Magitronic proprietary auto burn in and I went to Taipei to set it up, but was never used. DTK had a multimillion assembly line set up by germans and was never used. The only company that saw a a tremendous increase in quality and techno advances was ASUS which just started with motherboards and took the lead in the Taiwanese , but they are still lacking in their QC although their designs are not original but bought from the west.
It is culture more than anything else. All the parts from dell and Alienware although well designed their components are shit.
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