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    My Love of acer notebooks...

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by kojack, Nov 20, 2010.

  1. kojack

    kojack Notebook Prophet

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    I am hooked on acer notebook products, as it stands right now, i have 3. I had another as well but traded it in on my timeline.

    all my acers get more than 4 hrs battery time, and my timeline gets well over 8. They are fast, good looking, and stone cold reliable. I have one little problem with my aspire one with a video driver but its all fixed now. just had to re install it and all was good. My 2 hp's I had were always problematic, motherboard problems plauged both. Not so with the acers, one was even tossed across a hardwood floor out of rage one night.

    worked flawlessly!

    acer is number one!
     
  2. Arminator

    Arminator Notebook Evangelist

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    Nice feedback... ;)
     
  3. kojack

    kojack Notebook Prophet

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    forgot to put my models up there...

    I own an aspire 7720, a timeline 4810 and a one a0a-150.

    I love them all for different reasons.
     
  4. razorjack

    razorjack Notebook Consultant

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    I havent thrown mine but ya i really like my acer also,seems to be rock solid so far with no problems at all.......... :)
     
  5. weinter

    weinter /dev/null

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    My opinion just remember don't turn into a fanboy.
     
  6. Bronsky

    Bronsky Wait and Hope.

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    They don't like being wet. :mad:
     
  7. kojack

    kojack Notebook Prophet

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    well, I am a fan of acers, but I won't go over on other boards etc freakin out about them. I am close to buying a new apple macbook 13" as well. I have a mini and I like it. I also have a home grown desk top with a amd dual core processor, 2 dvd drives, 4 hds and 4 gig of ram. I have to say that the HP w2207 monitor i have is sweet, im ordering a 27" verison of it. my son is getting a notebook for chirstmas, so im going to trade his desktop for it.

    as far as acer goes tho, I think are ahead of the rest for win based notebooks...
     
  8. weinter

    weinter /dev/null

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    Install Linux on Acer and you can dump Macbooks.
    Linux Loves Acers.
     
  9. Paul79UF

    Paul79UF Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm thinking that I made a bad choice to upgrade my "main" laptop from a Toshiba A105 to an A505 (i7, 4gb ram, 500gb, 1gb video).

    My little beloved Acer AS1410-2285 just seems so much more well put together and solid. I wish I been like you and gone with another Acer.

    The Toshiba creaks and seems thicker than it needs to be. :( Oh well, at least it just sits on a laptop cooler hooked up to a monitor/keyboard/mouse and hardly leaves the house.
     
  10. kojack

    kojack Notebook Prophet

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    Linux is not as good as either windows 7 or OSX. I have all three.

    Macbooks are very nice units.
     
  11. weinter

    weinter /dev/null

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    I ignore statements which do not justify themselves.
    Linux is not about looks it is about power. Either you don't know how to config Linux and say it sucks or you are a Ubuntu user.
    Btw my Fedora looks awesome.
    [​IMG]
     
  12. kojack

    kojack Notebook Prophet

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    different strokes for different folks. I used it all. what "power" are you talking about using linux?

    please fill me in on this magical power that linux has that osx or windows dont besides being free which don't matter to me anyways..
     
  13. weinter

    weinter /dev/null

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    You can customized everything.
    Modify config files and make install everything that has a source code.
    You can string commands in terminals to get the exact output you want for free.
    The fact that you pay for something you get in Linux for OS X demeans its value and it doesn't cost the price of a equivalently speced Windows Machine; It costs more...
     
  14. kojack

    kojack Notebook Prophet

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    fair enough. You can customize everything....

    for the rest of it, writing code, and all that jazz. I dont use my notebooks or desktops for that. I spend 8hrs plus a day on them working, doing estimates, reports, keeping track of costs on houses i'm building, Pricing steel buildings. Then, at home im editing photos, creating movies of my family, having a 4 yr old and a 12 yr old in hockey takes up most of my day after work.

    I just want to do what I want to do with either osx or windows. windows for my work computer, and OSX for home life. works for me.

    even though windows have a great system now too. There will always be haters of Win. but since vista, I have enjoyed using it once its setup. I did not have the problems that other people claimed to have with vista. Im in the process of switching my 3 remaining systems to 7 h.p. I find it very very good.
     
  15. Zeph_Ng

    Zeph_Ng Notebook Enthusiast

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    Love my Acers as well

    Have a 5-6 year old Aspire 1692WLMi, still working

    Had an Aspire One (1st gen), that has now been replaced by the 3820TG =)
     
  16. Bronsky

    Bronsky Wait and Hope.

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    That is quite an upgrade from an Aspire One. :D
     
  17. kojack

    kojack Notebook Prophet

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    sweet!.....

    I think im going to replace my one with an 11" timeline.
     
  18. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    The best one. ;)