Acer: We'll Overtake HP in Laptops By End of Year

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[citation][nom]amk09[/nom]Tayb speaks the truth.[/citation]
[citation][nom]polly the parrot[/nom]I second that notion.[/citation]
and I third it too.
On my hand i have 2 HP laptops they constantly causing small issues which I need to take care all the time, not to mention the initial setup time to remove all bundlewares, most of HP own softwares are useless (taking resources and causing lags).

I have an Acer used as HTPC which 'every friend' touches and messes up, I can't say it's too great but at least it works as it means to be.
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Real life experience:

I'm "proud" owner of acer 8001 series laptop. That's a "premium" series, mind you. In several month, some keys stopped working. Went to Saturn, sent it for repairs (they said it would take several weeks, indeed, it took them 3 weeks). And it WAS NOT repaired. Stupid frucks ran some stupid tests and replaced my HDD (which I didn't ask for and wasn't prepared to lose), but not the keyboard....

Comparing the "premium" laptop to business laptops of Lenovo/Dell (Latitude series) - well, it's not in the same league.

Never owned HP notebook. But please, stop spreading crap about superior quality of acer.
 
never owned a acer laptop before, so no comment.
but so far, all my friend who own acer laptop wont have good comment on it

 
HP has continued to have the least reliable laptops in every evaluation i have read. i know Acer wasn't the number one but they were far better then HP last one i read.
 
[citation][nom]chickenhoagie[/nom]I'm sorry to say, but acer does not make quality laptops. they're about staying cheap and *plastic-like*. Thus, selling laptops for Acer is much easier to accomplish, as most consumers don't even know what quality means, only price.[/citation]

Neither does HP!

Acer makes cheap. They've got a reputation for breaking down. This is primarily because acer laptops are primarily used as cheap back-to-school systems. Those systems are victims of a very tough treatment, thus they break down from time to time.

HP makes midlevel laptops primarily. They're either built for business use (fingerprint reader, no webcam, slow harddrive etc) or light gaming/multimedia (cheap dedicated graphics, card readers and touchpads with disable buttons etc). So Acer and HP aren't actually direct competators. Anyway. Being part of the IT staff of a company with almost only HP laptops and tower systems, I can vouche for HP laptops being unreliable.
In the first half of last 2009 I had hardware problems on almost 50% of the laptops I got in. This year it's better, but not good. I'm writing this from a probook 6540b. This particular model has a habit of going in coma. To fix it you have to take it out of the docking station and remove the battery. Then wait a while, and reassemble it. In addition I've so far clicked the focus away from the comments box six times because the mousepad is situated in a way that makes my left thumbs first joint hit the mousepad when using space. And being a HP notebook for office use, it does not have a feature to turn it off.

Bottom line - I've seen so many HP laptops that I no longer consider them higher quality than acer. We had among others had acer laptops before we standardized on hp. They weren't as feature rich, but they broke down a lot less.


ps. hp towers are not of the same low quality. I've had only two visits from onsite support guys in the last 5 years! And only two systems have outright failed ; one for unknown reasons, and the other because of a wiring accident that gave the usb port 230v ac
 
Both Acer and HP use these guys:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanta_Computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wistron_Corporation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compal_Electronics

These 3 is making 75% of all notebooks manufactured in the world annually.
ASUS (mostly via Pegatron), MSI, and some others have manufacturing by themselves. HP and Acer are R&D and branding but not manufacturing. In my opinion quality by the end is depends on manufacturing. So there is not so much difference :)
 
Both Acer and HP use these guys:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanta_Computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wistron_Corporation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compal_Electronics

These 3 is making 75% of all notebooks manufactured in the world annually.
ASUS (mostly via Pegatron), MSI, and some others have manufacturing by themselves. HP and Acer are R&D and branding but not manufacturing. In my opinion quality by the end is depends on manufacturing.
 
Shouldn't be so hard considering the amount of DEAD HP Laptop's I have seen...

The new HP Compaq's aren't so bad... but any HP's between 2005 to 2009 DIED within a year.

If you want an HP, make sure it's a LaserJet
 
Well, I have an $800 HP Brick from the Nvidia graphic chipset debacle. Clearly a manufacturing defect the me and about 5 or 10 THOUSAND other people had that HP refused to fix. It was exactly the same problem that MS experienced with the XBOX (BGA sockets coming unattached due to heat/cool cycles), but HP refused to fix it (well, they would accept $400 to replace it with a board with exactly the same defect).

No more HP laptops for me.
 
Asus? ehh, they're not as bad as medion, but definetly not a brand I would recommend to anyone.
But to be honest I wouldn't recommend any laptop except a select few lenovo's or cheap toshiba units.
 
note: for about 20 years I have always built my own PC's but given that this is my first
Notebook I wasn't confident on building my first one.


U obviously have never touched a computer in your life if u think you can build a laptop
 
won't generalize on a brand. they all seem to be in the business a long time and should have sufficient knowledge on producing good products. i won't pay top $ for a laptop that will last 5 years. i still have a working laptop with a P3 cpu but do i use it now? i'll settle for one with value (good features at reasonable price) and then take good care of it.
 
they both build laptops for price point. if you want quality, buy an asus or lenovo. otherwise acer= hp so which ever is easier for you to swallow imo
 
Every Acer laptop I've had the chance to use was flimsy and felt like I was going to break it too easily. They have been able to compete on price point for overall system specs but I don't think their units currently hold up to the durability of their competition.
 
I personally love Acer. The fact that you get the same CPU, same amount of RAM, same hard disk capacity, same screen size and same features as an HP (except for the bloatware) but for a fraction of the price makes me go for Acer every single time! When you really think about it, there isn't much in a modern laptop that the maker on the sticker actually makes. For example, CPUs are made by Intel/AMD, graphics cards by nVidia/ATI, hard disks by WD/Seagate/Hitachi/Samsung, displays by Samsung/LG, optical drives by Sony/Toshiba/Liteon and so on. I doubt a laptop maker actually makes more than maybe the motherboard and the case!

I have been using my acer Aspier 5920G laptop since 2007 with absolutely no problems except for a crack in the plastic where the air from the CPU fan exhausts. I didn't take it for repairs or anthing, I'm leaving it as is because the laptop still works fine. In fairness, I used to run World Community Grid software with this laptop - the program keeps both CPU cores at a constant 100% utilisation so it really puts the cooling system through its paces. CPU temperature used to peak at 92 degrees C if I play a game at the same time WCG is running, in summer.
 
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