Dell are the biggest ******s around

[cocaine]

I implore all of you to NEVER buy an Acer for as long as you all shall live.

hi my dad has a 6 year old acer that still runs as perfect as ever

[Markeh]

hi my dad has a 6 year old acer that still runs as perfect as ever

The quality on OLD acers wasn't THAT bad, but from about 05 the problems got worse, and worse and worse.

Out of interest how many parts have been replaced on your fathers Acer?
And has it been used everyday? If it hasn't had anything replaced I'll be amazed.

[Recursion]

I implore all of you to NEVER buy an Acer for as long as you all shall live. You'd have to pay me to have one.

Acer are dreadful rotboxes. Mine lasted about 2 and a half years. Had to have Windows reinstalled, new screen, webcam, 2 NEW LIDS, touchpad button, power lead, motherboard, and keyboard. And it weighed a ton, had rubbish features, and was possibly the worst PC I ever owned. Styled very unimaginatively, too.

Toshiba aren't bad, but I killed the hard drive in one after I fell over.

HP have always been good to me, on the other hand. Only thing I don't like about my dv6 is that there's no hard-wired switch to turn the Wi-Fi off unless the machine's booted up.

Agreed.

[cocaine]

The quality on OLD acers wasn't THAT bad, but from about 05 the problems got worse, and worse and worse.

Out of interest how many parts have been replaced on your fathers Acer?
And has it been used everyday? If it hasn't had anything replaced I'll be amazed.

hmm pick a year just after my dad got the laptop then label them as crap.. how convinient. and about once every two days, and no.

[Markeh]

hmm pick a year just after my dad got the laptop then label them as crap.. how convinient. and about once every two days, and no.

No, it wasn't convenient, I actually never had problems with Acer till 05. The Aspire I had in about 2003 was a brilliant little machine. Lightweight, quite fast and responsive for its time. I still ended up

Thinking all Acer's were as reliable, I replaced it with a Travelmate in 2005, and it was powerful, but heavy, the HDD was noisy, and the USB ports died about a year after I bought it. The thing eventually died after about 18 months (the HDD failed).

Thinking it was a fluke, I bought my second Aspire in 2007. Which had all the problems I mentioned earlier. I do use my machine everyday and quite often, especially for gaming and photos, but still, it should last longer than that. The lid kept cracking around the hinges, this was replaced about a year ago now, and it cracked again in July. And the fan died on the motherboard. And a few of the keys came of the keyboard. And the graphics drivers refused to work when I had to reinstall Windows (that was my fault, virus off Skype D

I also disliked the Nvidia graphics that I had on my second Aspire (that could be down to the fact I might be a bit of an ATI fanboy ), and it was a 17 inch model, so not exactly portable.

Obviously, some people have had GOOD experiences with Acer, its just I'm not one of them.

[The Professor]

If some people have had good experiences, why are you proclaiming no-one should ever buy an acer? Anyway if they were that bad they wouldn't be one of the top laptop sellers would they? I don't remember exactly which position they're in but I believe its top 3 with dell and apple.

Never owned an acer btw just annoys me when people make massive generalisations based on a bad experience.

[Randomme]

I have rang dell about 3 times each month and now this computer is 2 years old (wasting money), Dad, 2 Sisters STILL wont let me get a laptop for the whole house? Weird....

[Markeh]

I have rang dell about 3 times each month and now this computer is 2 years old (wasting money), Dad, 2 Sisters STILL wont let me get a laptop for the whole house? Weird....

This is why I'm not so keen on Dell - the customer service. I'm lucky with customer service, as we only have to deal with PC World cos my parents (force me to) have the cover plan. But we did have to ring HP once. Couldn't understand a word they said, but they sorted out the problem and sent us the recovery disks I wanted.

[Colin-Roberts]

it's how you treat your pc i guess. We've had dells, acer laptops, hp laptops.. never had an issue with them..

[Dan!]

it's how you treat your pc i guess. We've had dells, acer laptops, hp laptops.. never had an issue with them..

i have to agree ive never had any problems with any laptops ive had :S