Help Needed To Convince Parents That Acer Laptops Are Good

I have gathered up all my money and mostly have enough to spend for a decent laptop. I can afford a laptop thats $600ish or less. I'm pretty set on a certain particular acer laptop, BUT my parents don't agree with my decision. They have some myth and idea in their heads that Acer laptops are cheap and crappy computers. They don't have long life spans and they really are easy to break. Plus, they say that there are not really repair parts available for acers. Are there any websites, ideas, proof that might help me convince them that the brand is decent? I need facts and info. ;D Thanks in advance.

 

Acer laptops are much better than what they used to be but still far from decent. Cooling is still not great to be frank and keyboards can be horrible. Reliability isn't particular great. But they are just computers, why not ask what brand your parents suggested? Personally I like Toshiba.

 

my opinion they have very good point about supplements. is this your first pc?

my first was acer aspire 3860 i bought it from 4 years and i still using it till now for internet surfing nd some office work. some acer models are good an other are not its realy depends on the luck more when dealing with acer as brand . if this going to be your first pc and you are not in gaming city then i suggest you go with some thing more stable like Hp or Sony this just my 2cents

 

Well Consumer Report's owner's survey from 2006 to 2010 rated Acer and Toshiba as the two most reliable brands, but there wasn't a huge difference between the best (15% failure rate) and the worst (20% failure rate). Some models are crap, some are pretty good, some are quite good. All laptops are more prone to breakage than desktops full stop. Paying attention to reviews of individual models of any manufacturer will get you further than blindly buying by brand.

As far as cooling goes, we've got some beautiful Dell Precisions at work that overheat all the time and shut down. Every company makes some models that cool poorly. My 4820TG cools pretty well. 3820TG even better. 5738 seemed to have some problems. Most Acers seem to cool alright as long as they have good thermal compound and clean vents. A lot of the newer ones seem to be thermally throttling tho, like the early reports on the 3830 / 4830 TG models.

 

You want to pull a fast one?
"Write" a report and show it to your parents. Done deal.
People believe in every and anything nowadays.
My experience is that Acer Laptops are good teaching tools. Teaches you to be awesome with systems as support is pathetic.
But Acer Computer as of now still give rather superb parts specification for an affordable price.
Google for Solutions.

 

You have an uphill battle. Parents are incapable of understanding anything.

Bronsky

 

Tell them that the components inside an Acer are barely different from those in other, more expensive machines, because they're all built in the same Chinese or Korean or Taiwanese factory.

Acers will be fantastic computers if you treat them right; all my family runs Acer, two of which are over 5 years old.

 

My Acer (9301) is nearly 4.5 yr old and I think in the main its how you treat them (any make)as to how long they last. Cracked lids (tight hinges) were the big problem with the 9301... I was just ultra careful opening mine and haven't had a problem although they became so tight a little while back I opened it up and greased them.

You can be lucky sometimes, or sometimes not... but look after it carefully and you shouldn't have too many issues.

Acers seem to attract "tweekers" as many of the threads on here will show... keep it and use "as supplied" and you shouldn't go far wrong.

 

why do they say that acer laptops are bad.
doesn't laptops from other brands develop problems after being used extensively

 

Get it from a shop you trust and just go through them?

 

Humans work like this:
When you pay something expensive and it breaks down once or twice somehow you will just brush it off.
When something cheap breakdown you will automatically attribute the failure to cost.

Because tweakers like to get the most out of least. I get priceless kicks and eurekas out of that.

 

if acer laptops are so unreliable , how did acer manage to be the second largest computer maker in the world.?

 

By selling a bizillion cheap netbooks. That's why it is frantically trying to restructure itself in the wake of the Ipad and declining netbook sales.

Bronsky

 

Well Acer is number 1 in Australia. I just bought my second Acer and my girlfriend just bought an Acer.

I have some justification for you to provide for your parents. Quanta and Compal are the companies that make most of the laptops. They actually make for all brands. Toshiba, Dell and even Apple are manufactured in China or Taiwan.

True Manufacturer of Laptop | Twiddle Geek

TuxMobil: Laptop and NoteBook Manufacturer - OEM/ODM Relation Matrix

True Manufacturer of Laptop | Lenovo Thinkpad

Also components are made by third partu companies example graphics cards ATI and Nvidia, Hard Drives West Digital and Seagate. These components are manufactured separately and pieced together for the ODM to use when they build the laptop.