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On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 http://www.squaretrade.com/pages/laptop-reliability-1109/ According to this report of several thousand laptop brands (it's a pdf - sorry). HP are one of the worst for reliability. Asus and Tosh being the best. I have a decent (read expensive - £1100) HP laptop. I question the build quality. Some of the casing does not seem to fit perfectly together, as I would expect. Also the DVD drives feels really "flimsey". Mum's very old Packard bell machine appears to be built to a far higher standard. I keep it cool, well ventilated and am careful with it. It has served me without issue for 2.5 years. If I were to buy a new laptop i think i wud look at tosh or asus. Note that I am not confusing acer with asus. lol ;-) I might look at a think pad too - after seeing Rhia's! Others will no doubt think and act differently... :-) Best wishes roly :-) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq