Are Acer laptops any good?

[ItWasNiceToKnow]

I've been looking for a laptop for my girlfriend, she wants to play source games etc, on high settings without lag.

I found an Acer TimelineX with a 5650, i3 and 4 gb ram. She currently has an Acer, and it's really messed up ( cause of vira I think ).
Is that common for Acer laptops?

[John the Gr8]

No, Acer laptops are good. At least I've not ever heard the opposite.

[Badal]

I've heard from a few friends to stay away from Acer, as they use lower quality parts in all of their computers. However, they always do seem to have a very competitive price to offset that.

[WarriorXK]

Acers are decent, however you'd be better of with an Asus laptop.

[Alcapwne]

I find acers unattractive. Dells and Asuses and the square lenovo ones are sexier, which, lets face it guys, matters a lot when it comes to laptops

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oh yeah, they do get very hot as well

[LimeDeer]

I hear that they are good.

[theLazyLion]

Acer's are some of the worst pieces of over heating shits I have ever come across.
/User experience with 2 laptops.

[MetricMoose]

They've gotten better.

[Hizan]

I've got an aspire 5551-A, relatively new and it works perfectly well for me.

[Skorpy]

I've had Acer TravelMate 5520G for 3 years now. Still running great.
I had some overheating issues back when I was still using Vista and playing with this but I solved that by putting a DVD case (Stephen King's Langoliers) under the laptop, lifting the back a little.

I once dropped this too. Only one thing happened, (found out later) one of the screws on the processor's and GPU's heat sink was cracked a little and I couldn't tighten it up anymore. But that hasn't affected anything anyway.

I love the keyboard. It's comfty.

[ItWasNiceToKnow]

What about HPs? They're still shitty ?

[url]http://www.shg.dk/Baerbar/HP-Pavilion-Dv6-3047eo-Entertainment-2230885.html[/url] is the one.

[Juggernog]

[QUOTE=ItWasNiceToKnow;27178064]What about HPs? They're still shitty ?

[url]http://www.shg.dk/Baerbar/HP-Pavilion-Dv6-3047eo-Entertainment-2230885.html[/url] is the one.[/QUOTE]

My friends HP with a low-end integrated card can hit 125(C) from 15 minutes of BF2.

They're still shitty.

[Badal]

[QUOTE=Juggernog;27178091]My friends HP with a low-end integrated card can hit 125(C) from 15 minutes of BF2.

They're still shitty.[/QUOTE]

Tell your friend to get that laptop inspected.

[Pixel Heart]

My mom bought an Acer from Fry's, and it feels like such a cheap hunk of junk for $400...

3GB DDR2 667, single core Athlon64 @1.6GHz, nForce 430 chipset with shitty GeForce 6150 Go!, and Windows 7 Ultimate (installed by me). The shit barely runs Minecraft, and the keyboard keys and overall plastic shell feel extremely cheap... So I don't recommend Acer to anyone when shopping for a laptop if you need something powerful with any sort of quality if you want it to last more than a year. Asus is a much better brand for laptops.

[nevaeh]

Ordered an Acer last Friday, and it should be here tomorrow or Wed.

[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115864[/url]

Great reviews..great price. I payed $700 for it, and it should be able to run Crysis, GTA, etc on at least medium.

[M23]

I had an acer, I really do not recommend them. The build quality is quite bad although mind you, It was an older model so maybe they've improved.

[Lily]

[QUOTE=ItWasNiceToKnow;27178064]What about HPs? They're still shitty ?

[url]http://www.shg.dk/Baerbar/HP-Pavilion-Dv6-3047eo-Entertainment-2230885.html[/url] is the one.[/QUOTE]

My dad had one, it broke down on him pretty fast (mobo battery component thingy fried)
It was filled to the top with crappy software and toolbars to bring annoyance, boot times and everything else to the maximum, all installed by default

And when he had to reinstall it he had to go through some shitty HP install thing, in french

[lemongrapes]

I got one purely for price (runs source mediocrely) for £350 in 2008, its done me alright but it gets very hot and is pretty ugly. If price is your main limitation, go for an acer, but if money isn't a problem definitely look into other brands.

[.ediT]

I got a 11.6" acer last year and I love it. My dad got a 10.1" a little before that and he loves his.

They're definitely not cheaply built, at least not the ones we got. The other netbooks I was looking at all had weird or small keys and annoying designs. Mine is thin, uniform, and has large, flat keys all for $400. I don't think they're ugly and I don't know how people can complain about their quality and then buy razer peripherals and whatnot :o

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[Nsybouts]

I have never have had a problem with them

[Pixel Heart]

[QUOTE=Tobba;27179260]My dad had one, it broke down on him pretty fast (mobo battery component thingy fried)
It was filled to the top with crappy software and toolbars to bring annoyance, boot times and everything else to the maximum, all installed by default

And when he had to reinstall it he had to go through some shitty HP install thing, in french[/QUOTE]

No offence, but your dad has no fucking clue what he's doing. All he needed was a Windows 7 disc, and common sense.

First thing I do with a new laptop is blow the partitions, and start fresh.

[aVoN]

I'd say, go for Acer. I've got an Acer Travelmate TimelineX 8472TG (Core i3-350, nVidia GT330, 4 GB RAM) and I'm surprised, how well it works. I can play L4D2 on high (but FSAA and High shaders activated at once drain too much FPS so I set shaders to medium, FSAA to 4x) and even CoD: MW2. Also, the battery-time is brilliant. I once made it nearly 5.5 hours (6 hours are in the specs) with running on "lowest energy profile" possible. I watched movies during that time on a long trip to Denmark.

All I'd say is, get a better GFX-Card than I have but be warned: It will drain the battery more of course. Also, if you decide between a Core-i3-350m and Core-i-5-430m: Get the cheaper i3. The only addition between these two models from i3 -> i5 is "dynamic overclocking" of the i5 (which costs up to $80 more). So you also better compare different CPU-Models.

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The only downside is maybe the support. I asked them if it would be possible for them to fix their BIOS so [url=http://newmodeus.com/shop/index.php?main_page=page&id=12&chapter=0]I can use a HDD instead of the optical drive[/url]. My plans were to speed up the laptop installing an SSD and a HDD in the optical bay. But the problem was, once I installed anything else but the optical drive, I couldn't get beyond the BIOS and boot the OS. The funny thing was, the BIOS recognized the device properly. But it simply didn't got along and boot from the primary or any other driver, it just keep stuck at a black screen. I told them how easy it would be to fix if they'd just let me talk to the developer-team. But after 2 weeks or more I got a reply like "Thank's for contacting us. Your requested BIOS feature is currently not supported. If it will be implemented in the future is quite unlikely. Thank you for contacting the Acer Customer Support" - So just general "bla bla" when you ask questions beyond "How do I install Windows, lol lol".

[Hugabuga]

Go for Dell. I have a Acer and they realy suck

[[EG] Pepper]

[QUOTE=Persious;27181239]Go for Dell. I have a Acer and they realy suck[/QUOTE]

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[Demache]

[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;27182867']:irony:

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Are you trying to say his post was ironic?

[sonictrey]

I have an Acer, and I love it. Only things I don't like about it is the meh battery life, and the fact that it has a 32-bit OS on a 64-bit processor. Hate it when companies do that.

[Lily]

[QUOTE=Pixel Heart;27181064]No offence, but your dad has no fucking clue what he's doing. All he needed was a Windows 7 disc, and common sense.

First thing I do with a new laptop is blow the partitions, and start fresh.[/QUOTE]

That might have been a good idea, but when he got the laptop windows 7 wasent out yet, and he had one before which he had to send back becuse it ran vista (which wouldent run the CAD program he needed, was slow as fuck and suggested uninstalling explorer.exe as soon as something fucked up), and transfering 30 GB of data for a OS install is a pain

[culexor]

My Acer Aspire w/ an i5, 4gg ddr3, and a 5650 has been great to me so far. Bought it back in June and have had zero problems with it. I recommend installing an OEM version of windows on your laptop as soon as you get it, so you don't have to deal with all of the crap that the manufacturer loads onto it. Haven't had any heat problems as of yet, but only time will tell.

I was having some issues running some games (some freezing, etc.) and I thought the GPU was overheating but it turns out ATI just had some shitty drivers. Everything was much better after I updated.

[meppers]

i had an acer monitor once and it broke, and besides picture quality it was awful when it worked

[Blueridge]

I'm on an Acer moniter and desktop here. The mouse and keyboard they gave my family around 3 years ago(when we bought it) was absolute shit, so I went back to the old Dell keyboard we had(Which was just as shitty).

My friend just bought an Acer notebook for programming however. He's currently trying to get the teachers to let him use it in class but so far it looks like the only use for that thing is programming class.

They make really budget PCs but I'm not sure about laptops.

[editline]3rd January 2011[/editline]

Scratch that, just remembered my mom had an Acer laptop and she fucking hated the thing(Which is odd because it's specs are pretty much the exact same as this desktop, which she loves).