Your favorite laptop vendor

I've heard Dell has had the worst reputation for laptop problems, but I've been using one for a little while (Studio XPS 13) and haven't encountered any problems. My mother owns an Acer, and I know a few other people that have too, and they have not encountered any problems so far.

Personally, I believe that both companies are the lower end on the spectrum, but I think that:


This is from my personal experience because I have dealt with both Acer and Dell. Toshiba, Asus, Samsung, HP and Sony VAIO are all (as far as I know) make significantly more stable computers than Dell and Acer.

In my experience,

Just about everything > Dell

except in failure.

Since Acer has always sucked, and it has bought Gataway - the embodiment of fail - I would say:

everything > Dell > Acer

Though I do agree that Dell is horrible

Yes,man......

I agree with you......

So far I've used Compaq/HP loved it and my old lappy is still going strong and an ancient Dell circa 1994 for old dos games and it worked well.

I have to say ACERs are horrid though their netbooks aren't too bad.

Though right now I'm keen to get a Lenovo ultra portable....

still nobody choose macbook, eh?

Guess nobody has to much money to spend on shiny gadgets

Well Macbook is for professional user. You really should think before buying one.

So far, I Haven't had a big problem with my Toshiba Laptop compare to my late Compaq(which die because of Overuse and a bowl full of hot tasty Ramen fell on top of it.)

I don't think the average professional user would get a Macbook they'd be using an ultra portable Lenovo.

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btw Ieryuudan, why do you think Mac is for professional user? those shiny bling-bling laptop sure is for style..

HP Envy has allot of great hardware, but the standard composition of hardware (e.g. what most will buy) gives very little value for your money. My mom just got one via her work, and they put a new very expensive cpu in, but then her screen resolution is low: 1366x768 which means that she ended up paying ~ $3000 for the same performance that ~$1000-$1500 would get her. It also does not have an internal optical drive..
so all in all not a great buy, it is actually more "bling-bling" as you put it, than the macbook, since you get a nice looking laptop with great specs but all together not too useful

The macbook is for graphics professionals, for the sole reason that many graphics programs just works better on a mac. Adobe CS suite is much nicer to work with on a mac, even though there is no obvious reason why...

My current lappy is an Acer Aspire 5920; decent, pretty and I got it for a great price, but the bundled software (Launch manager - needed for wireless and multimedia buttons - and 'Empowering Technology' thing are awful, and prone to crashing) and 'pointless buttons in stupid places' are lamentable. I'd ideally go for an HP or Toshiba - better quality, more rugged and still good looking.

I'd put the frequency of problems with Acer laptops down to most of them being cheap, and consequently popular. I've also been asked to try and fix two Acer laptops - they were both overheating because of blocked-up or covered-up vents. Design flaw/people not knowing any better.

My condolences.

Haha, you're funny. I smell a new Raven X Petrelli.

2ghz Core 2, up to 1gb Hypermemory ATI card and 4gb RAM, bought a year and a half ago for £415, was a great deal; it looks nice, has a good screen and sound, I've dropped it a few times and it still works...it isn't terrible. :P I wanted dedicated graphics, and at the time there was little choice in that price range.

Edit: dedicated, not integrated. God no.

Well, in China I can buy a copy IPhone for less than one tenth of what the real thing cost, it has the same hardware, just lower quality. You could call buying one a great deal, but chances are that you will get problems related to failing components.

My Point: Acer is like the copy IPhone...

Not a very good analogy, jenslyn.

May I ask why Tegumi?

An Acer is cheep, and it can have good specs with standard quality components. Yet it is quite likely to give you lots of problems. So is buying one a good deal?

I liked my analogy

You're comparing a legitimate brand to a pirated product. :| I'm no fan of Acer, but it is not a good analogy.