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Thinking of picking up a new desktop PC. I've owned a few different brands over the years; makers like Hp, Dell, Gateway, etc. Never have I owned an Acer though. I am aware that in reality most parts for the different PC brands come from generally the same hardware manufactures. In general I'm interested in knowing what the experience has been for those that have bought an Acer, specifically their desktop line. Thanks. Also here is a link to the particular model I've been looking at: http://goo.gl/B7yQn |
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Gateway is owned by Acer. Technically you have used them. |
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All I can say is I LOVE my Acer tablet. Period. Netbook, and other laptop I have had before my dell were great as well. I have a Gateway desktop at the moment which is Acer as the guy on top of me has said, and it's worked pretty great for me. That looks like a great PC you picked out there. Our family computer is almost the same once except not Intel i3 it's something else and a quad-core, but I would say you would be taking no risks going with Acer. Pretty reliable company, decent customer service. |
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Never have used an Acer desktop but I have an Acer Aspire laptop and it gets the job done. Not a single problem yet! |
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IF you want an desktop I would say build one... the components used in ready built systems are usually cheap carp.. :) |
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In my house I have like 4 or 5 Acer laptops and they all run very smooth and very good. The think I don't like about them is that the design of them look AWFUL meaning the design and look just makes them bad. This is my opinion but overall there better then like Toshiba because my mom has one and every time she turns it on the damn thing has problems. Maybe it's because she is on Vista but it still is that Toshiba is shit. Go with Acer. Never used there desktops but there laptops are SEXY |
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there laptops are great but there dekstops are a slight let down in my opinion as u have now had 2 acers |
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there laptops are great but there desktops are a slight let down in my opinion as i have now owned 2 Acer's and yes they do not have a very good design, |
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I'm fed-up with our family's Acer tower. It's an Aspire M5640 with Quad-Core intel processor. Near the end of the warranty period it was acting a little funny, but I didn't do any detailed troubleshooting right away. About two weeks after the warranty ran out, the hard drive and video card died (same day). I've had the hard drive at a drive recovery place and they said it needs the heads replaced (software recovery not possible). The video card had burst capacitors on it. I went and replaced the video card and hard drive with nearly identical models and rebuilt the system from the restore disks that I created (computer came with no install or recovery disks). It ran again for about a year and a half and then two weeks ago it just stopped working completely. No lights or sounds when pushing the power button. I did extensive testing on the power supply and it appears to be perfectly fine. I even tested the power button with my multimeter and it's good too (all they way down the cable to the motherboard connector). I assume that my issue is a dead motherboard and it's configuration doesn't match a standard micro-ATX motherboard to be able to just replace that (for $70). By the way, I did contact ACER support when the initial HDD and vid crash happened, and they said too bad, so sad. |
