Acer to buy Gateway
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Say it with me: Still better than Compaq or S*ny
ddrueding
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Who here has used an Acer in the last few years? I have no experience with them.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Several people in my office bought $330 Acer Slugmachines when they were on sale at Circuit City a couple weeks ago.
They are everything you'd expect in a $330 laptop. Celeron CPU, 512MB RAM, 4200rpm hard disk, Vista and hardware that will not function in XP (specifically the sound).
I don't have anything particularly good to say about them, but nothing particularly bad, either.
They are everything you'd expect in a $330 laptop. Celeron CPU, 512MB RAM, 4200rpm hard disk, Vista and hardware that will not function in XP (specifically the sound).
I don't have anything particularly good to say about them, but nothing particularly bad, either.
ddrueding
Fixture
I'm familiar with the sound issues getting a Vista machine to run XP. I haven't run across one I couldn't make work eventually. Usually involving MS' UAA driver and a driver from some other laptop.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
It's not worth my time to bother with. Particularly not on a $330 laptop.
I have found Acer desktop motherboards to be pretty solid and very reliable. I have 4 of them in service (friends/relatives) with AthlonXP 1800+ - 2400+'s running in relatively harsh environments (i.e. lots of pet hair and dust). No failures or problems.
We have had Acer desktops (Veritons) at work for about 8 years, through three iterations–P!!!-800, P4 1.6, Pentium D 820. Rock solid (25 000+ units). Dell briefly won the tender during the 1.6 -> 820 transition, but the failure rate in service was so high, the contract was negated and we went back to Acer.
Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
My GF's dad has one, despite all the preinstalled crapware with WinXP, it's a half decent box. (P4 Northwood era).
The Acer restore CD's could've been better done, however.