Why Acer is cheaper compared to Dell?

[TehSuigi]

If you look even for a little while, you'll hear horror stories about every computer manufacturer, Dell and Acer included.

[afhstingray]

true, but im not referring to horror stories, im referring to minor annoying issues that come up after 6 months of ownership. Like the finish peeling off, joints getting loose.

i suppose as evidence i could quote the instance of a particular university in singapore that switched from offering acer as special student purchase to fujitsu due to very high level of technical issues and complaints with the acers.

they were offering acer travelmates, correct me if im wrong, thats the business line right?

[Oberkanone]

Quanta, Compal and some other contract manufactures are the actual builders of the notebook computers.

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/99...idg/index.html

Support may differ, materials may differ, features may differ and design is certainly different to be a HP, Acer, Dell and etc., however, build quality is pretty much the same.

Debate "build quality" all day if it makes you happy.

[LPTP-LVR]

It really doesn't matter if the same companies build the laptops. That doesn't mean they build them the same..."build quality" very much comes down to the design for the casing for instance and the materials used, as mentioned. Build quality does NOT describe the quality of the company that does the building....

[kiriakost]

The logical in laptops , are to do model to model comparison.
Not brand to brand .

Some models are simple failures ...Flaws in their electronics, the external look and plastics quality comes second in value .

[TeeJay 44]

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out of all the brands, i hear most complaints about acers. the casing dosent seem to stand up to wear and tear. not good if you bring it to university every day.[/QUOTE

Acers biggest problem is that they undervalue their products. So, mommy or daddy chooses them ahead of Dell etc. Because they are "cheaper".

Hence Acers biggest problem. Too much fiddling from kids that know squat about computers.

Screw up the lappie and Acer gets a bad name. See it all the time on the Acer forum.

Cheers,
Theo

[redrazor11]

99.99% of the times, the fault is not of the ODM or the OEM, but the PEBKAC....

*applause* I havn't heard that term in awhile

[Xseries4ever]

Acer notebooks qualities aren't as bad as their apparent reputations. My parents have two TravelMates (business line) purchased 4 years ago. Still going strong. My partner has an Aspire, and though no where near as good as my ThinkPads, the built quality is very similar to my aunt's HP notebook and our old Dells.

[yuio]

I have had 3 acer notebooks in the last 3 years two are alive... one is going strong the other... well just say your prayers before boot...

Alive 1.5GhzCel/512MB/SiSGPU/120GB(upgraded due to failure of stock 60GB)
sorta alive... Ferrari 5005 2.0Ghz turionx2... I think It's as software issue...
dead: older ferrari... dead, basically lit on fire... (smoke and funny odor has to be close enough right?)

by the way acer doesn't have support... unlike Dell.

[michacerboy]

I think one of the reasons Acer can give a more reasonably priced product vs. Dell is advertising. As far as I know, Acer does little/no advertising, or at least not 1/10th as much as Dell.