Acer's new notebooks are incredibly ugly.

Not to start anything with big time Acer fans, I'm an Acer fan myself, their monitors are great, and they've had some decent notebooks in the past.

But their new line of notebooks have the be the ugliest things I have ever seen.

The look and appeal in the design, and how nice it looks, is the single most important thing in a laptop to me, and this is where Acer fails horribly. I can only hope they issue a redesign as fast as possible.

 

Beauty lies in the inside of man. What is ugly to you, may not be ugly for the rest of the world. Just because a select few think it's ugly, I don't think Acer is going to plunk down a lot of money on their design wing. I think they should fix their cooling first .

 

Oh well. As pointless as it seems, Acer still rocks. Best bang for the buck.

As a valuable forum member once pointed out: "Acer is a bit like Marmite. Either you like it or you dont"

Enough said.
Cheers,
Theo

 

I have to add a different perspective to this - I am a PC tech and in the last week I have worked on 3 new laptops preparing them for clients. One was a Toshiba; another a HP; and the third one an Acer Extensa 5620G.

All-up, I must agree: the HP was clearly the aesthetic winner - stunning design, stylish, just impressive. The Toshiba was fine as well, but not really any better than the Acer. But in this category the HP won hands-down.

But now let's look at some other things: the Toshiba has a woeful keyboard compared to the HP and Acer (the Acer's is the best of the three) - the Toshiba keyboard is cheap and nasty and feels crap to type on. Then there's the screen - out of the three, again IMO the Acer screen visually was the most impressive (all thee units running on AC with max. brightness and otherwise factory settings) - the Acer just was a joy to look at, and its blacks are sensational - really noticeable. Both the HP and the Toshiba had inferior screens - and the Toshiba was easily the least impressive.

That said, the Toshiba only had Intel X3100 integrated graphics, versus the HP and Acer which were nVidia and ATi dedicated graphics respectively. And out of these two, the Acer had the better card - an x2500.

After that, we have small things to consider like, the Toshiba and Acer are at a similar price-point, but only the Acer had Bluetooth. Oh, and the Acer came with XP Pro out of the box - the Toshiba came with Vista (yuck!) and needed XP retrograde discs ordered over the phone (free) - but at least I was able to retrograde it. The HP also came with Vista, but there was no choice to retrograde back to XP.

So, all-up, are aesthetics (looks) the most important thing for you in a laptop? For me, sure it's nice if it's pretty - but it's sorta like a good-looking girl: she can be really hot, but if her IQ's not topping 90 we're gonna have a lot of problems getting past that in order to have a decent relationship... (likely scenario) "see ya!"

 

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Well, many like that new Acer design, I love it personally the beautiful curve, I dont think Acer design is as bad as that of HP or Dell, they do not have any taste(in my opinion) but just flashy.

Acer , on the other hand, is very humble and beautifully sophisticated IMHO.

I hate HP design , shiny inprint finish is ugly to my eyes, but I know it is my personal taste and anything else.

My freind loves HP design but he has ASUS C1 (I think) because it performs better than the Pavillion DV 2700T for his work and gaming stuff, I think design is the least important factor for me to decide what to buy.

For me , size , LCD and CPU are way more important , I think Acer needs to upgrade their LCD qaulity , I compared Acer Aspire 4920G302-g16mn with HP PAvillion DV2758TX model side by side, they had the same CPU T7300 and the same amount of RAM 2gb , but Acer had a much worse LCD quality and better Video card than that on the HP, so I compromised the screen quality and got Acer for the Video card ATI HD-X2500HT with 1024mb of memory, the HP had NVIDIA GF8400GS with 128mb of dedicated memory.

Now, I am thinking of exchanging the Acer to the HP because I get tired of the LCD , this makes my eyes hurt alot more than my old Toshiba and Dell.

I think all companies are not great, but I know we have to compromise in some where to pick up the right one for each of us since all of us have different value, speciafic requirements and uses.

If you hate Acer design , try other brands.
I will try an HP or something else even though I do not like hp .

 

I dont agree with you on the HP design stunning stuff , but their input devices are great.

The Toshiba input devices are not good and tough to type because they flex too much .

 

I want to replace my old Travelmate with the new one. Which is the best for image processing, math programming (mathlab) and WinXP, Aspire 2920 (new version) or Travelmate (both T7300)? By the way, I always use backpack from home to campus (and keep the notebook inside there)

Please, give me some advices. Thanks (sorry for my English)

 

I think acer designs are fine, it's there quality and there support... YIKES!!!!

 

I've seen and used the new Acer model (the gemstone or something? I don't know the real model name/number). I have to say, lid closed, it looks pretty sweet. Lid open, I don't know what the designers were thinking. It looked like one of those fake models (for example, those fake cellphones they use in booths), except, it was real!