Does Dell suck that bad? And Acers?

damanaliI asked him to buy the Toshiba for me but he said Acer was better. I didnt know about it until he went here in the Philippines and surprised me with this netbook. I was pissed but what can I do? Its already here and can't be exchanged.

I guess you are in the Phillippines, sell it to someone that wants a small, cheap computer/laptop/netbook. Sell it to someone that doesn't know much about computers.
Sell it to someone like "when you had no idea about computers."
Someone with low education and wants a PC. Or you can resort to eBay.either way, you should probably profit from this, then you can go get what you want.

nah, even if this machine is an acer, i resolved my heating issues and it saved me from difficult situations like term papers and horny problems. lolHonestly, what i want to buy now is a pc, the last one i build i sold and well, the money just flew away as fast as i build. So, I'm saving now for a custom build of mine.Also, most of my knowledge in spec mostly came from Loony and RomU.By the way, i think mostly the problem is not with dell or Acer, its mostly the people that doesn't know how to build one or upgrade their units. Its better to build one than buy a pre-built one. It saves money and avoid trouble with those pesky call-center people.

Well, I can say some Dell are good, and some are not. I had 2 Dell laptops, one lasted me 7 years, replaced it fir another. After two years, the new one overhears horribly. So certain ones are better than others.If you are lookig at a new laptop, look at asus. I just got a famin rig from then, playing BFBC2 highest settings and t doesn't get hot.

damanali · #22Also, most of my knowledge in spec mostly came from Loony and RomU.

1/4th of my knowledge is also from RomU.Oh RomU, what would we do without you?

Dell sucks and over here it's hard to find spare parts. I have an Acer and it is my first laptop and well, it's not that bad since it is cheap. It does heats up quickly but other than that it gets hot, it doesn't really bother me too much. So I guess Acer = you get what you pay for? xD but there's no question I'm getting a Mac for my next laptop though I'd keep my Acer for leisure/gaming purposes =P

I had to cut a hole in the back of my dell in order to put a new power supply into it the other day...They need to learn to make their computers easier to upgrade

acer desktops are amazing mine is £500 u can barely hear it 4gb ram 160gb memory every slot you could want never even crashed been 2years since i bought it

120gb hard disk is pretty pitiful even for 2 years ago.

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dills2 · #27acer desktops are amazing mine is £500 u can barely hear it 4gb ram 160gb memory every slot you could want never even crashed been 2years since i bought it

Mine can crash like hell though that's probably because of windows vista and not Acer. Acer are not the best but prrety good for starter laptop or if you're not too into hi-specs computer stuffs.

A teacher at my school "used" to have a Acer. It broke in 2 years.My school's PCs are all Dells and they have had them since 2005 or so. They have 3GHz Intel Pentium, 1GB DDR2 RAM and 40GB HDD. How do I know? Common sense! Anyways, the offices and principals PCs have 2GB of RAM and their keyboards are glossy/shinny. All of the keyboards are Dells. The monitor is dell. THE SERVER IS DELL! Everyone has noticed that the PCs are slow as hell, probably because when I onto Task Manager, there is A TON OF SHIT running at the same time. Such as Adobe Speed Launcher, MS Office 2003 (something), Photoshop spped access to camera and more crap that slows it down...Even the Science/Computer Teachers agre that it is slow as hell. Adding more RAM would speed it up more.What is suprising is that my PC boots faster than the schools PCs.Base Boot Time (Tested in June 2010) like 8 minutes...My PCs boot time: 2 mintues.The school just bought 3 Acer laptops for use like for presentations and dances.The CD drive would not open a few times, the thing lagged like hell several times and crashed some more.

I have an Acer for almost 2 years. Only got about 10 random blue screens and 3 complete crashes so far ;D

timmy1991 · #26I had to cut a hole in the back of my dell in order to put a new power supply into it the other day...They need to learn to make their computers easier to upgrade

OMG I remember when dad's old dell broke in '03 and they stopped making power supplies for his '00 model...He lost 3 years of school plans...On topic, when I had my dead-in-2-weeks acer, the CD drive often crashed startup if there was something in it. Dunno why.

My Dell was a good computer i upgraded it with another 2gb ram, another HDD, an extra cd rom drive, a floppy drive and a video card, it ran perfectly all the time, never had a problem with it.
Maybe i found a good model? heres some info i pulled of the net(added my upgrades):Dell Precision Workstation 370 3.00GHz PC.
Specification
Processor
Intel P4 520 CPU 3.00GHz 1MB L2 cache Processor.
800MHz FSB.
HT Technology.Memory
4GB DDR2 ECC memory.
Hard Drive
160GB SATA
250GB SATA
CDROM
DVDRW CDRW Combination Drive.
CD rom drive
Audio
Integrated Soundmax Audio.
Video Controller.
Asus Nvidea GeForce 8600GT PCI-E 256Mb Graphics.
Dual display support via DVI and VGA outputs
Ethernet
Integrated Broadcom Netextreme Gigabit controller.
Firewire
PCI IEEE-1394 controller – two outputs.
8 USB ports. 2 front and 6 Rear.

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Who the hell still uses Floppy Disks?

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I do occasionally, some dos games need to be on disks, i can't get them to install otherwise.

personuser · #33OMG I remember when dad's old dell broke in '03 and they stopped making power supplies for his '00 model...He lost 3 years of school plans...

Can't the harddrive be salvaged? It could be placed on an external casing and have the contents accessed. Or, the hard drive could be placed on a different pc and access it from there. Unless its fried like a motherboard. Did the power supply overheated and exploded so that the internal components got destroyed?What a waste for a 3 years worth of school plans.