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On 15/06/11 18:15, Martin Gautier wrote: > > 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. > > A quick query on my CMS tells me just under 68% of the laptops I > repaired in the last 12 months have been Acer. There is a huge Acer repair place in Plympton which will do out of warranty repairs for a good price, and remarkable turn around. Sorry to publicise Martin's competitors, but we are clearly well served for getting Acer laptops repaired locally. Have to say Martin needs to tell us what the proportion of laptops in circulation (after warranty expires) to know if 68% is good or bad. My Acer did go for repair, but only after a major drop, don't think we can blame that one on build quality (unless "case not made from titanium alloy" is a fault). Possibly also it may denote that other manufacturers are more successful at attracting out of warranty repairs, or people throw other laptops away more willingly. My bigger concern would be they had poor GNU/Linux support. On mine the graphics card needed some obscure acceleration option disabled, the ACPI needed to be disabled, nothing major, but not IBM, oops sorry I mean Lenovo, style GNU/Linux support. So it worked well, but these days you want proper support for such things so it can keep power usage down (and battery life up) when it isn't really needed. That said colleague at work just got a lovely Lenovo laptop, and the price was pretty good (although that is with some sort of convoluted cash back scheme). Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq