Is Acer a reliable laptop brand?

All I've been getting from friends and family about buying an Acer laptop is disapproval, saying that it will break easily, have hardware problems or will have problems with the warranty. I'm planning to buy an Acer Aspire V3 here in Saudi Arabia as a sort of budget gaming notebook, but coming from a long line of HP and Toshiba laptops I'm a little bit uncertain about purchasing.

Any opinion especially from long-time Acer users?

 

Just a hint : I worked in reparation center for computer during 5 Months.
Here are the top 5 brands returning (These are stats and no based on my likes/dislikes) :
Top 1 : HP
Top 2 : Dell (XPS,Envy,no Alienwares !)
Top 3 : Acer
Top 4 : Asus
Top 5 : Toshiba

This is a bit significant for durability of components. You are free to choose with or without this info.
Regards

 

I have owned 2 acers, currently on the Ultrabook S3 and I think they are incredible cost competitive machines. Sure you don't get the flash, but you get a damn good system for an even better price.

 

Acer laptops are affordable and at the same time reliable.

 

I've had an Acer for a while now, and it's never had problems for me despite heavy use. Seems reliable considering the price.

 

My acer 5930g looks good performs good and is the best laptop I have ever used.

My bro has a a500-1gl and that was crap feel, and speakers were crap compared to mine. I used many thinkpads about 5 of them including the t series and r series as well as the tecra series toshiba and latitude d820 d630's e6500 as well as hp elitebook 2530p and 6930p etc and they were very nice.

Overall apart from the battery life this is the best laptop I have used.

 

Older Acers (the silver ones) were crap in terms of build quality.
Gemstone series was better and anything starting from Gemstone Blue onwards is really good quality.
It's always a good idea to get a feel of the notebook in a shopping center or something- not only to get a feel of it but also to check they keyboard.

Acer's keyboards are by no means bad by they don't have the feel Lenovo or Dell business notebooks have. If you're used to those kind of keyboards you may not like what Acer offers. I don't complain about it though.

People have complaints towards Acer mostly based on old silver-models. People who bought one of those would probably never recommend Acer to anyone.
I've been using Acers for 7 years now (with other notebooks going periodically through my desk too) and I'm pleased with the quality.

 

I have an Acer 8951G which replaced a Dell XPS laptop. I’ve been
using the Acer since late 2011 (bought on price drop). No issues.

Many problems posted on these Acer forums are user induced. Typically,
the user manual isn’t read, then right out of the box brand new, wipe out
the hard drive (including Acer drivers), perform a clean OS install, then trouble. Or a BIOS upgrade 72hrs after buying, or hardware upgrades that don’t work. Then panic and send back to Acer.

Acer displays are great if you sit directly in front. LCD/LED viewing angles,
not so good, but a lot of other laptop brands have the same LCD issue.

See Review Acer Aspire V3-771G Notebook.....
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Acer-Aspire-V3-771G-Notebook

 

If you do your homework, you can get a reliable Acer. My TimelineX 3820TG has been flawless for 2 years of hard, daily work. I liked it so much I took the extended warranty as I knew I would be keeping it.

The very next model year was crap and had a lot of throttling problems. So, you really need to do your homework. I paid $720 for mine. Very few computers are as reliable and offer a powerful dedicated GPU at that price.

 

My 6920g has had its share of problems. However, it has been a phenomenal machine considering all I have put it through.

Having said that, I can't speak for the newer stuff acer is putting out. I don't think I would buy a new Acer at this point in time.

If you do go for one, make sure you get one with an Intel cpu and Nvidia gpu.

 

My first notebook was a 5720z that I got as a gift in early 08' and I now I have it hooked up to my tv for media (netflix streaming, rhapsody, youtube, iTunes, ect...). I've never had any major issues. It really just needs a new dvd drive but its a cake diy job.

I got an acer aspire one d257 netbook last year for school and I freaking love it! Very solid build, awesome keyboard, crisp LED screen, portable, and Win7 runs great. I wouldn't trade it for any other OEM netbook in the market. Waiting for warranty to expire so that I upgrade the ram.

**One really important thing that I underestimated as a computer consumer is that you're just not shopping for hardware but also for customer service. I really liked the two times that I had to call Acer for help. Calling Dell for anything is like trying to find you're way through a labyrinth maze with a-holes who can barely speak English. I have dell notebook and there's three things that need fixing.

I say go for an Acer or Toshiba. Get something that you'll be able to upgrade later on (new cpu, gpu, and ram).

 

I used Acer back to the days of my first using a Pentium 133 chip. I strayed two times, once with a dell p3 800 which had numerous problems and once with a HP dv9100, total piece of you know what. At this moment I have 10 acers and all are stone cold reliable. I use them for work, home, on the go etc. I will not buy another brand of windows based PC besides Acer. I am slowly moving toward apple now however. I am enjoying my mini a lot.

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My first Acer back in 2006, hard drive gave out just after a year. Couldn't say much for the build quality either, but it was a budget laptop so not unexpected. Even so, I'm considering buying the new Aspire V3. Just Just seems like Acer has really improved their overall build quality and reliability over the last few years. Willing to give it a go!

[Edit] Just bought my V3 and am very impressed so far.

 

The only thing I don't like about my current Acer (5560g-7809), is the lousy placement of the trackpad. Its located on the left side of the base, which makes it tough for your hand to not "accidentally" hit the keypad when typing or gaming (which I do alot of). I try to use a regular mouse, but when gaming and using the ASWD keys, I constantly hit it, which really screws things up.

Is there a way to completely disable the trackpad when using the regular mouse?

 

You could try this:

Automatically Turn Off the Touchpad When Using a Mouse

 

It is a good brand as many others on the market. The most important thing to look for is the processor and other hardwares like graphic card, etc, and the next thing to look for is how its display is compare to other brands. I recently switched from Asus to Acer 5750G and I am experiencing a much better battery performance (more than 4 hours, versus 2,5 hours on Asus) and somehow a faster start up. Also read other users answers in this post which I found it very great, don't rush to upgrade the bios or other devices, only update the softwares like Windows, flash, Adobe reader, etc. If you need more hard drive buy one which has already a bigger size or even invest in an external hard drive to keep your files. Regarding the support I guess they should be good, a look at their web site gives a good impression that they are very well structured, gives all the necessary info to contact them by email or phone. I had some trouble getting some clear answers from Asus by email as I guess they are not quite competent in English.
Other than that I can only highly recommend it, so far I am a very satisfied user.

 

Thanks will try!