Maybe the old Accers were bad, but my experience was different, I had a low
cost Accer for about
1.4years, until it was stolen recently and it was very reliable and withstood
some very long
international travel trips and drops. No reboots or other unexplained problems.
My only complaint short battery run time on standard battery. I only paid $500
for it new and it
included more memory,dvd writer, larger HD etc.than most of the current $400
offerings.
All newer Accer's have a very nice high efficiency multi antenae system built
into the lid , which
really does greatly improve wifi range (even better than the "mimo super G
technology"). I
currently have a toshiba I bought for about the same price ($500), the case is
sturdier and it is
a little lighter, but it's wifi performance is dramatically worse. I used to
use the accer
enhanced wifi for skype calls internationally while traveling. If I could not
find a hotspot with
enough bandwidth (common in 3rd world countries), I would mooch a bit of
bandwidth from a local
company's unsecured net. Having a greatly improved range/throughput with no
external antenae was
a huge advantage there.
The accer screens also seem to have better contrast and viewing angle, than
other low cost
laptops. I actually used PS quite a bit while traveling, so screen quality was
important even at
the low price point. There are often compaq's at $400-500 on special
currently, but given the
better wifi,more memory,dvd writer and better viewing screens, I would
definitely not write off
Accer at this price point.
Tim Hughes
--- Manuel Viet <oly@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Le jeudi 06 Juillet 2006 19:49, ScottGee1 a écrit :
> > CompUSA will offer this one:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/n9w27
> >
> > tomorrow (2006-07-07) only at $399. Part of their 'One Item Per Day
> > At A Crazy Price' week of sales.
> >
> > Today I bought from them a 160GB external USB 2.0 drive which, after
> > rebates and tax will cost <US$40.
> >
> > How DO they do it? :D
>
> When a bargain looks too good to be true, it certainly is ! Acer did not
> earned a very nice reputation in the laptop field, ranking somewhere at the
> bottom along with fire prone Dells and consumer grade medions. Far from
> Toshiba, Apple and lenovo.
>
> In particular, the Acpi is atrociously bad, causing reboot and hangs. It took
> time for devoted linuxers to rewrite a clean acpi code just to be able to run
> linux on them (and of course, it's not mainstream, and I don't think it's
> easy to tweak acpi the same way with windows).
>
> Last but not least, this is obviously and end of line model, far too short to
> handle the newcoming vista gracefully. And it's not expandable either,
> because all slots are filled.
>
> So if you're willing to pay for a computer with a one year life expectancy,
> that's fine, but otherwise that's just giving a hand to help the seller empty
> his shelves before christmas.
>
> I hope you usb drive is better. Be cautious at thermal dissipation / control,
> those enclosures can go really hot (I tweaked one I had to extract more air
> as the disk inside was suffering a lot, acording to S.M.A.R.T. reports - now
> it's OK, but this is a device I can't really trust anymore because of the
> abuses it suffered)
>
> --
> Manuel Viet
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