^^ROFLMAO. There are lot of people using 4530 and 4520. Take everone's word for it
No reasoning, no explanation, nothing. And you say "take my word for it". Who are you and why should someone just take your word.
FYI, here are few facts about Acer.
Q3 2008:
The top performing PC OEMs in the quarter remained to be Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co., Dell Inc., Acer Inc., Lenovo Group and Toshiba Corp
The highest y-o-y growth, however, belonged to Taiwan-based Acer, which registered 78.8 percent and with 9.6 million units shipped
no.3 in notebook market share behind HP and Dell.
Why should we listen to you????
I have used Acer Aspire 5101, AMD Turion, nVidia graphics card, 512 MB RAM
I made this purchase in Jan 2006.
Along with me my friend also made the purchase.
In march 2006, both our DVD drives stopped functioning in a gap of few weeks.
Since it was under waranty I got it replaced in about a weeks time (Example of poor quality of
service)
Then I had a problem with the Screen, the Screen has patches of colors, and was replaced with
a new one.
Afte a year of the purchase, I started to notice huge difference of performance. In a few
weeks, I started getting Blue Screen errors.
First like most of you would think, i thought its a hard disk error. I took to service center,
they asked me to replace Hard Disk, I shelled oout 3.5K to get a 160 GB Seagate HDD.
The very next day I again got the error, I took it to the Service center, They took the laptop
for extensive analysis. After this they charged me basic labor cost and said, the MotherBoard
has to be replaced, It would cost me 10K
I was dumbstruck.
They also said that the motherboard is not easily available ( I fought with them a lot to
reduce the cost, but in vain)
Finally I took it to the Acer Mall, Jayanagar, Banaglore, the place from where I bought it.
They said they have to do a Chip Level Servicing
And assured me that I dont have to pay if the problem persisted.
They did the servicing for 2 weeks, And at the end charged me 3k. I was releived that i didnt
have to replace the mother board, After using for few weeks, the problem again came. I was
devastated. I took on the people. They took the laptop back (they didnt give me any receipt
earlier) They had the laptop for observation for few days and said, they didnt see the problem
and hence cant return the money.
Now I'm in Chennai, and still having the problem. I was able to use my laptop intemittently
but always in a few hours, blue screen error popped up (I have serarched Internet forums on
the Error Code etc, lot of people out there have turned hopeless with this)
2 days back I again tried giving it to a good laptop service shop ( Laptop Support,
Gandinagar, Chennai) They reinstalled OS, drivers, formatted HDD)
Windows started, they called me and said I have to pay 1k. I agreed. again I got a call from
them saying It will take few more hours, as another 'Virus' has come.
Later they said, the same problem is coming, and nothing can be done.
Hence my tryst continues. When I said take my word, it was not because I think I'm Mr Moore of
INtel or something, but because I think I have faced enough problems to understand the value
of going for a reliable soultion than for a cheap Fix.
I fully understand that Acer is among the top selling brands. But what it means that they are
able to market their products better, may be because of placing them in good price margins,
may be because of Hrihik Roshan. It doesnt say anything about the Service quality, or robustness of the system.
I will you consider all the loop holes while making your buying decision.
I'm ready to take head on any Acer Devotee in this forum!
Let the war begin!
-RK
"Hate Acer"
.....thkx..
