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On 15/06/11 18:15, Martin Gautier wrote:
On 15/06/11 17:48, Rob Beard wrote:On 15/06/11 16:45, Martin Gautier wrote:On 15/06/11 16:26, tom wrote:http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2011/06/13/acer_stock_woes/ Tom te tom te tomI wouldn't recommend an acer unless they were very-very cheap and you were a soldering iron/screwdriver wrangler! MartinWhy is that? Rob (a happy Acer user with a 3 year old Acer Aspire 2920, and relative of someone else with an Acer which also works fine). RobWell done. You're lucky! Acer's are notorious for breaking down. In my experience, almost all the consumer laptops I repair are Acer. Invariably the power jack has broken or burnt out, the GPU has fried or (at least) one of the caps on the mobo have blown.
I've seen blown caps on Dells and IBMs, I've also heard about fried GPUs, generally NVidia GPUs (do a search on TheInquirer.net for Bumpgate).
A quick query on my CMS tells me just under 68% of the laptops I repaired in the last 12 months have been Acer.
Maybe Acer is a popular choice and maybe some of your customers aren't looking after their machines?
Lots of people I know with laptops have a tendancy to use them in places that causes the vents to get blocked. My wife does this with her ThinkPad, I'm surprised it's still going as she uses the laptop in bed and the poor little thing doesn't half get hot.
I haven't compared this with Acer's market penetration but out of the customers I've recommended laptop kit to, and have taken my recommendation, none have reported problems. I realise that's not indicative but it does fuel my prejudice.
Any particular machines you've been recommending? Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq