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Acer Aspire S3-951


Source: WSJ

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By Mitch101 on 12/8/2011 5:46:39 PM , Rating: 4
Ive known Acer from way back when pushing in the power button would bend the case and you had to open the case and re bend it.

For me Acer today is a premium brand compared to what they used to be and like you say gateway/emachines are their lower end. I personally find they make the right choices in a lot of overlooked areas and get a bad rap.

To compare Lenovo make a pretty solid machine in feel but my Acer laptop runs cooler and has outlived two corporate laptops and that just a two year time span. Acer is doing something right its just when you touch the Acer it feels like its going to break or its a little thin but it keeps going. I dont doubt the inside they just need to put something more into the look and feel. A little thicker plastic could change many peoples minds about what they are making.

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By StevoLincolnite on 12/8/2011 6:05:04 PM , Rating: 2

My first Notebook I got back in 2003 which had a Mobility Radeon 9600, 1.6ghz Pentium M, 2gb of ram and a 120gb Hard Drive.

Just happened to be an Acer.
Heck I could even run games like Oblivion on it with some modding of course.
It went everywhere. Work was mostly labour-outdoors stuff to keep track of inventory and geography and it hummed along in the rain, wind and shine till even this day.

Sure it's a little warn, the ports have a little rust and the CCFL backlight is about as dim as some people I know, it's been dropped, sat on and crap spilled all over it...

If what you say is true, that the older Acer laptops were crap, then I might jump on a newie if they can survive what I have put this thing through.

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By mrbios on 12/8/2011 8:37:31 PM , Rating: 2
I bought the laptop you're talking about, used, for my niece about 3 years ago. It's currently running Windows 7 quite nicely actually. At first it had some issues with the BIOS being incompatible with the newer Vista/7 power management (there'd be no battery meter), but some Google searching led me to a modified, unofficial BIOS that fixed this.

The battery had to be changed, and probably will need to again soon, and had a couple power adapters die, but she's still running well. It's also taken a bit of a beating as well, and just won't die. Since Windows 8 is supposed to have equivalent or less requirements, I'm sure she still has a few more years of use left in her.

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By Ytsejamer1 on 12/8/2011 9:42:02 PM , Rating: 2
I don't know...I can't stand HP hardware and by default, will never touch buy a Dell. I did enjoy servicing the Dell laptops though...they were pretty decently designed for breaking down and putting back together.

I've recommended Acer to friends and family and they haven't had any problems. They always seem to have solid features, use solid hardware, and overall just work pretty well.

Their tablet was underwhelming but most of the HoneyComb tablets were all the for a wallpaper, couple of apps, etc.

I hope they stick around...i like the design of their stuff.

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