Notebook Aris 8050 = to ACER?????

Dear All,

I'm newbie about Acer. Has anybody ever heard the ARIS BRAND? I noticed this could be made by the ACER. I am wondering whether this baby is tougher than lappy or more cR4ppppppy. The spec below seems impresive but they defang it with DDR1 memory instead of using the DDR2 memory.

Please advice me everybody. TYVM,
Monkey


Notebook Aris 8050
Intel Centrino - 1300MHz ( 1MB Cache ) , 256MB DDR , HDD 40GB , 15,4" tft Wide XGA Crystal Super View Technology , DVD-CDRW COMBO Drive Internal , Mouse : Touchpad , Modem 56k , LAN 100Mbps , USB Port 3Bh Ver 2.0 , RGB Port , 1bh PCMCIA CardBus 32bit , S-Video TV Out , Firewire IEEE 1394 Port , Wireless LAN Intel 2100B 802.11b 11Mbps built in , Battery Lithium Ion,

The cool thing is they have crystal super view screen... WIDE too...

 

I did a little digging, having never heard of Aris - and I doubt they'll be competition for Acer any time soon. Aris is little-known outside its home country of Indonesia, and is a brandname of Fosa Marketing SDN BHD. Their products are apparently also distributed in Australia, Taiwan and Thailand.

My guess is they're selling fleshed out systems based on barebones from one of the usual suspects - Arima, Asus, Compal, Elite, FIC, Foxconn, Inventec, Mitac, Quanta, Twinhead, Uniwill or Wistron. (These companies together make by far the majority of laptops on the market).

 

hi gweiloo,

Thank you very much for your reply. Can you please tell me what do you mean by "flesh out" systems...

Do you mean, it is barebone systems which are made from the usual suspects of manufacturers - Arima, Asus, Compal, Elite, FIC, Foxconn, Inventec, Mitac, Quanta, Twinhead, Uniwill or Wistron - but the motherboard, LCD, proc, mem, etc are manufacture by the Malaysian FOSA BHD itself???

Please let me know =)... I would guess u're an MBA graduate =)

Cheers,
Monkey

 

By fleshed out, I mean that they're taking a barebones design from one of those companies, and then telling that company to insert a specific processor, quantity / type of RAM, hard disk, DVD drive, etc.

It is possible that they're installing these items themselves after receiving partially built machines from the ODM. Possibly they're also having the cases customised to their desire, and so on, as well. I doubt both of these though, given that they're obviously a relatively small company. Most likely the systems are completely stock designs and completely assembled by the ODM.

If I'm right, probably the only things that Aris actually does are:

* Select the ODM
* Spec the machine
* Provide a logo to slap onto the machine
* Sign deals with resellers
* Have the ODM ship machines to the resellers
* Provide a support line
* Receive RMA machines
* Repair RMA machines
* Tack on their extra profit margin

Even some of these, they may not do. For example, it is quite possible that the ODM provides the support line, or does the actual warranty repair work. Chances are they also deal with several ODMs, depending on who's offering the cheapest price at the time they sign a deal.