Acer Timeline 1810T vs. Gateway EC1815u... LCD Quality Difference...?!?

hi fellas,

Today i went to a computer store to check the 2 above mentioned laptops.

1. Gateway EC1815u

http://www.gateway.com/systems/product/529668406.php

2. Acer Timeline 1810T

http://us.acer.com/acer/productv.do...7&ctx1.att21k=1&CRC=662014091#wrAjaxHistory=1

Both are identical in screen size, weight, features... The only difference is that the Gateway has 500gb Hdd whereas the Acer Timeline has 320gb.

So i was deciding to buy the Gateway however on close inspection of both the laptops side by side i found that the Acer Lcd was slightly brighter and more crisper than the Gateway Lcd.

At this point in time i searched the internet but could not find any reviews for the gateway laptop though there are quite a few for the Acer Timeline which all praise the Acer's Lcd Screen Quality.

Now i'm totally confused as to which one to buy...?!? I was more keen on the EC1815u since it has 500gb hdd compared to 1810T which only has a 320gb hdd but i found the 1810t screen quality to be better than EC1815u...!!

1. Has anyone compared both these laptops screen..?? I was told that Acer owns Gateway and that the EC1815u is the exact copy of 1810T then how come the screen quality of both the Laptops is different...??

2. Can someone put some light on this....!?!

 

Yes, Acer owns Gateway now and the two are very close. The Gateway model has a slightly different touchpad (the Gateways pad is concave, Acers is flat).

As for the LCD, afaik these models use panels from 4 different makers (AUO, CMO, LG Philips, Samsung). One may be better than the other, but you wont know which panel yours is until you use it.

 

When comparing at the store, be sure the brightness/contrast is set to the max on both laptops. Also make sure the screen is set to native resolution on both systems.

Also, as mentioned, even different units of the same laptop model can have different LCD panels that may differ slightly... it's the luck of the draw to some extent.

Finally, I can't rule out the possibility that there is a real screen difference between the different models, besides just unit variance... but I don't really know.

 

+1.
Personally I feel Samsung has the best monitors.
However before you buy the unit you can go control panel device manager to see which monitor it has by viewing the device id.

 

It seems you are not alone. I guess Acer may be putting the higher quality screens on Acer-branded notebooks over Gateway machines.

These concerns are causing me to rethink canceling my order of a Gateway model (backordered until March).

 

peter i went through that thread and it seems the guy is getting headaches after using his gateway....

anyone else experience that the screen of the 11.6 gateway is worse than 11.6 acer...???