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Source: Reuters

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This is another one of those...
By retrospooty on 10/22/2012 6:09:34 PM , Rating: 2
Companies that makes piss poor decisions and lackluster products at questionable price points then wonders why people aren't buying their products in bulk.

LOL. Acer... LOL.

RE: This is another one of those...
By TakinYourPoints on 10/22/2012 6:52:49 PM , Rating: 2
Make crap, earn crap. Racing to the bottom really didn't work out well for Acer. Meanwhile Lenovo and Apple seem to be doing quite well.

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RE: This is another one of those...
By StevoLincolnite on 10/22/2012 10:08:51 PM , Rating: 2
Acer's Notebooks never used to be trash.
My first Notebook was an Acer from well over a decade ago and it was surprisingly solid, lasting me years.

I only had to let it go because it just wasn't keeping up with what I wanted, rust was forming around all the connectors due to being exposed to Wind, Rain and Shine from work, the lid had cracked from being dropped, Sat-on, kicked and it still kept going.
Heck I even spilt a cup of coffee all over the keyboard area at one stage, so just chucked it under a tap and washed the coffee out and threw it on the dish-rack to dry.

These days I just have to look at an Acer laptop and they scream "I'm a teapot", sad but true. :(

RE: This is another one of those...
By Samus on 10/23/2012 1:54:47 AM , Rating: 2
I gotta disagree. I had a client in 2003 purchase a bunch of Acer equipment because their sales guy calculated it was the best deal. It was like 6 laptops and 8 desktops. They were all Athlon 64's or Semprons because at the time the alternative was a Pentium 4, but that's were the positives end.

The laptops were plastic junk. Two had broken screens in the first year because the shell was flexible and fragile. Nobody liked the keyboards. They were "bouncy" and "wavey" according to numerous complains from employees. They began to overheat and fail by the second year. One had a warped fan that couldn't even spin because it was stuck. The battery life was also terrible. None of the machines could run 2 hours on a charge, even from day one.

The desktops were a complete disaster (yes, worse than the above) and amazingly the same models are still in production TODAY as the Veriton "L"

Those things are total crap. The Athlon 64 models, even know they were low power (35-watt?) were constant headaches. The hard disk mounted directly on top of the heatsink, so they had constant hard disk failures, a mix of controller failures and click of death failures. They were also stupidly loud when the CPU was working. During a flash animation or anything CPU intensive, the fans were so loud it was ear piercing. The slot load drives jammed. The power supplies (external 120 watt) were garbage and got super hot: two of those failed.

I could write a book on how terrible these "business" machines were. They all looked pretty and didn't cost very much, but the $31,000 in consulting fees paid out to have them constantly serviced and repaired over two years would have paid for them nearly 5 times over.

We replaced virtually all of the Acer crap by 2006 with Thinkpad X60's and Thinkcentre A52's. They still have many of these TODAY, 6 years later.

The sales guy/accountant who was responsible the Acer debacle was let go in 2007, not directly because of the IT situation he was directly responsible for, but because he had a habit of making the same bad decisions that people who are synonymous with buying Acer products are accustomed.

Acer, you won't be missed. The Timeline X was simply a mistake. You got it right once, but you need to get it right every time to make it in this business.

Lenovo is systematically toppling their competitors with quality and price. Once they get their distribution network built up, they will be almost untouchable until someone better comes along to dethrone them.

But surely the miracle that is Windows 8 will save them?

