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Originally posted by Exca
@Cookie: Well good that you haven't bought the acer tough!
You would be sorry at the end 
I know the internals are not bad, and yes in most cases the notebooks are stable. Specs look very attractive (for the price), and everythings's fine... for the first few months...
But you pay for what you get, they have the lowest price on the market and it has a reason.
Build-quality sucks. You can actually twist the things in the diagonals, and if you have an issue... don't send it, it only gets worse . Don't call tech-support, you have to wait 2 hours on the phone before someone bothers to answer. They might be lazy, or everyone's computer is blowing up...
I can almost 'bend' every laptop for that matter though.
As for tech support, that isn't an issue here, also because it happens via the store where you bought the laptop. Finding a good store and they move heaven and earth to get you fixed (talking out of experience). eg: In the mean time, you get a replacement, etc.
Aaaaanyways, maybe I'm glad I didn't bought it, dunno. The experience from people I talked to (and my own) says Acers are pretty good (even after a few months). But, I'm fairly happen with the Lifebook I got atm too and I'll remember your advise though. thanks
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Originally posted by Exca
by the way it was acer who's battery's exploded some years ago. And they get freakin hot!
Acer, as with extremely many other brands (if not all), use batteries from other brands. eg: from sony. It are those which are at fault. If you look up battery issues, you'll find that every brand had once an issue with batteries. That isn't a typical Acer problem. As a matter of fact, the exact same thing happened with HP notebooks too in the past. And it can happen again, to any brand.
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Originally posted by joemailey
Doesn't this all boil down to personal experience?
Absolutely, and that is also often (and maybe mostly!) dictated from where you bought the pc/laptop. It depends on store to store (the service they give, etc).
Indeed most of the parts of laptops are roughly the same anyways. There isn't that much of a difference in parts and/or electronics being used today. Sure, some brand makes comprimises on one thing, while the other does it on another thing. It depends on what you find important I guess. Thus, yes, personal need/opinion/experience....
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