I'm a computer repair technician, and I run a computer refurbishing company. I have to say that Acer laptops are well built, even the cheap ones like the Aspire One. They are easy to repair and also you can find a lot of spare parts. I think that the worst brand is actually HP with their low budget "laptop" series
true, I have bad experience with all HP products. most of it lasted barely a year. But then that was 15years ago and because of it I don't buy laptops anymore; tablets are much better option for me
I think you missed some crucial context here for the 2000s. In early 2000s Acer was seen as a dependable no-frill workhorse taking market shares from IBM (it doesn't help that the final years before IBM exited consumer computer market its supply chain was constantly in flames, e.g., in mid-2001 a fix of my (new) Thinkpad A21 had to be delayed by 3 months due to unavailability of parts), whereas Asus was the new brand with some whacky ideas. However, in around mid-00s, Acer tried to mimick Apple and started to fully outsource its manufacturing to Chinese firms like Clevo. So Acer was no longer having their own manufacturing capacities and predictably that is where the QC of their products became very spotty, emergence of even cheaper knock-offs hitting their market share and when Lenovo cleaned up the Think-whatever lines they regained the grounds lost by IBM final years. Having said that though, I am typing this comment on my 7-year old Acer laptop.
I'm actually a bit surprised by all the "Acer bad" comments. I have a 2021 Acer Predator Helios laptop, and a 2023 Acer Predator Orion desktop, and they're two of the best computers I've ever owned. Makes me wonder if Acer Predator is held to a higher standard than regular Acer.
I am using an Acer Aspire 5 laptop right now and it's great compared to my old Lenovo laptop, it came with a harddisk initially but I bought a 500 GB Samsung SSD 980 and it works great now. Two problems that I find with almost every Windows based laptops is the poor battery life and very poor webcam quality when compared to MacBooks, if manufacturers can fix these issues, then Windows laptops wil continue to do well especially in the developing and poor countries where MacBooks are unaffordable to majority of the population.
Yeah I also got an Acer Aspire 5 with the Core i5 8250U, it's nothing fancy now but at the time having 4c/8t and dedicated graphics in a budget laptop was very good. The only real issue it had was the 1TB HDD was murdering performance (even though it wasn't being used), but after tossing the HDD and bumping up to 20GB of RAM it's been fine.
All you have to do is purchase the right Windows laptop. Apple only has a few models, it's one company. Windows computers are built by hundreds of companies. There are lower priced budget models, and other models that blow any Apple away.
Interesting watching this on an Acer Nitro 5 I've had for the last two years. The specs aren't bad -- Core i7, modern NVIDIA GPU driving a 144Hz HD display, 1TB NVME drive with an extra slot and a 2.5" SATA bay, 16GB RAM with slots to spare, and all for about $1100 USD. Still going strong (knock on wood).
The best acer product I’ve ever used was a mid-2010s 240hz gaming monitor. It was fairly cheap and had a solid panel with a great refresh rate for the time.
Bought Acer Aspire 5750 with Core i5-2410M in 2011, used it daily until fall last year. It's still working, but using it daily became painful. Then I took approach of getting business class refurb because logic. That's: reducing e-waste + value + my real performance needs. So now my daily driver is HP EliteBook 840 G6 with Core i5-8365U and for weekend gaming I got HP EliteDesk 800 G4 SFF (Core i5-8500) + low-profile GTX 1650 GDDR6 version from Gigabyte.
Back in 1996 I spent a month at their test lab in San Jose. The multimedia software company I worked for was bundling software with Acer's consumer systems, and I was there helping troubleshooting & customizing. So I find myself having a bit more connection with them from seeing the company from the inside (working at IBM was different since there I was working in their high-range Unix systems). But these days I either build my own systems from the parts *I* choose, or I re-purpose old machines that became too slow/clunky for MSWindows (they usually work much better under Linux, unless they're some P.o.S. Dell all-in-one). Even my MacOS machines I've picked up dirt-cheap used, and I refurbish and hack them beyond what Apple thinks they should support.
Acer before was unreliable as fk. Now, their laptops are pretty decent. The problem with acer is that their laptops are priced way higher than the quality they offer. I remember where Acer was a budget brand, undercutting Asus or Lenovo before, now their pricing is at the same bracket
Im quite surprised acer is falling like that... i have a 2021 Acer Aspire 5... still going strong after 3 yrs . Havent broken hinges or anythin yet on it (use if for at least 3 to 4 hours a day) . I hope they make a good comeback
The economic crisis in the West, that is at its early days, but is progressing will bring Acer back in the game, mark my words. ASUS was a nice brand - great quality at very affordable price, until they decided to cash out their popularity and made their stuff ridiculously expensive. Even more expensive than some expensive brands. If Acer can pump up a bit their quality, but keep their pricing policy targeting the mass consumer - they may have a great return.
This is weird I am currently using Acer and I use it regularly and it is a good one for my needs. I first got a Lenovo then aftrr a week it stop working went back to the store they could not fix so we changed to same model after a week it broke again. Apparently the Lenovo brand when it updated the Microsoft software it seemed to burn the board. We switched to Acer still using still updating still works for fine.
13% of computers in 2002 would be huge. Not like 13% of computers today. I had 3 computers in my house in 2002. Now I have one laptop that gets turned on maybe twice a year since the tablet and cellphone covers most needs.
I got my first Acer laptop, and so far only Acer product, in early 2015. It was really good at the time. The only thing I didn't like about it was all the Acer bloatware on it. It didn't affect the performance of it. But it was still annoying having to deal with all those extra programs for no reason.
Laptop companies need to understand that by reducing the plastic and metals used and simple designing the hinge is like digging their own companies to grave.
Acer computers are not bad. They are almost same as HP & Dell or sometime even better than these 2. Here is where Acer is behind: 1. No BIOS updates after making a PC. 2. No Drivers Updates by Acer. 3. No Customer Service.
Hey hey hey!! Go watch the movie "Eraser" from the 90s. The woman Arnold is protecting when she gets attacked at home, that green computer was an Acer (only remember this because i literally had the SAME one at that time)
Acer is still popular in the Indonesian laptop market due to its relatively cheaper price. However some people mock Acer as "Agak CEpat Rusak" (quickly breaking down) here since their debut in the early 2000s. I personally like Acer since they provide decent lineups with good enough pricing, I have a Nitro 5 and I have been owning some Aspire laptops for 2 decades.
My mom bought, on recommendation of sales assistant, some cheap Lenovo with Pentium or Celeron, no slots for RAM (just bare minimum on board)… In 2017 or 2018? Will get her refurbished Dell Latitude 5590 with 8th. gen. i5 for the same price as that passive "cooled" toaster was.
I think Acer need to segment or target more specific market like educational institution, government, supermarket, offices; market where acquisition is made by quantity rather than quality where cost-efficiency is more relevant. Also they should exploit more into the tablets market which is less saturated? I am just speculating
Acer computers have always exceeded their lifespan for me . But recently i was looking for a laptop and i found their line up and website very confusing
Just bought an Acer mini tower to replace my media pc. The only other one available was from HP and it was $200 more for basically the same specs. Acer is also not stingy with their USB inputs.
You forget that Acer laptops tend to last longer than HP and Lenovo. And as they make their laptops cheaper and cheaper, people will buy them, then when they break, they buy them again. Just because Acer isn't popular in one country doesn't mean they aren't used. Acer still has the spot as some of the best-selling laptops on Amazon, for example
I wonder if the uptick in share price had something to do with the Swift series of laptops? The Ryzen ones were really good for the price both in terms of power and build quality.
I had a few of their laptops over the years. TravelMate 240, Aspire 5920G and then an Aspire 7730G. I liked the Aspire series at the time, the latter two had built-in subwoofers and the sound quality was excellent. They also used MXM video cards so it was possible to upgrade them. I still have the 5920 but it's a bit long in the tooth now so it's rarely used. However, I remember that their support was terrible. I had to do warranty claims for clients and it wasn't unusual for the repair to take 3-4 weeks!
That affordable laptop brand stayed at 4GB of ram indefinitely for what seemed like many years and at that point tablets ran faster. That's part of what happened.
They have a stronger budqet segment. Unfortunately, ny experience with them isn't the best. I had e labtop from them which was "extremely slow" and I mean, nearly unusable.
The reason Lenovo selling cheap quality still survives as top seller is all political, Lenovo was a spin off from IBM, so the Yankees gave them a leg up, a big leg. Quality wise, Toshiba is the best, now they sold out, then HP, Lenovo just does not have the quality. Acer is worst, hinges, screen, HDD quality, all the worst
My very first computer was an Acer. Right before the scandal of them gluing in components so you couldn't do partial upgrades. Never bought another product from them.
The new ACER Chromebooks (with the 12th gen Intel CPU) are awesome! Fast, amazingly SILENT even under heavy load, and do most of what I need a laptop to do, namely writing and research. Even the mere 8GB model (though I'd prefer 32GB+) I got is speedy (with hundreds of Chrome tabs open or on standby) with a great display and sound. And it doesn't suffer from Windows 11 "power management" failures that are endemic to Windows laptops. The Chromebook allows for easy monitor-off and sleep functionality, a consistent success that Windows laptops can only dream about. My very costly young 64GB Dell and Lenovo laptops are collecting dust for that reason after only two years of use, besides also due to fan noise and hardware issues.
Acer isn't back by big market like China and US which prefer their local brand name Lenovo, HP, Dell, meaning to say it doesn't have the economic of scale. It also fails to ride on the acquisition of Texas Instruments and Packard Bell. They can't sell under both brand names. Further more it has no technology advantage not innovation except selling pcs and nbs.
I bought two different Acer laptops at different times, one right before college and the other after college, and believe me both their hinges were broken... Then bought a Dell one, and it's still working superb for 3 years now ... Acer has worst build quality among all brands
The brand bit at the end is a bit ass backwards. ThinkPads are the brand, not Lenovo, ROG is the brand, not Asus, Asus makes shitbox office PCs to the common user, Lenovo makes the same thing so isn't seen as the brand very often either, HP straight up bought a brand with Alienware so no, what Acer failed to do was have a model series that has that brand recognition to it. And before any muppet tries to argue: You wouldn't believe the amount of people who literally do know who made their laptop unless, of course, it's a MacBook because Steve Jobs deepthroats every Macky from beyond the grave still. Paying twice the price for soldered on RAM as an Acer would cost does that.
For those who only look at specifications and price, ACER is not suitable for you. ASUS can provide better options. But ACER has always been used as my main machine. Because of ACER's durability, it is one of the best brands I have seen so far. My laptop only broke after 11 years of use. Currently, desktop computers operate 24/7 for 7 to 8 years without any problems. From the early days (around 2012), mechanical hard drives in laptops used WD instead of Seagate. You can tell that he still attaches a certain degree of importance to durability. On the contrary, ASUS computers will more or less have some minor problems after 5 years. I've even seen ones with softened shells. And its serviceability is really good. In relatively early designs. Replacing the hard drive memory and WIFI card does not require removing the entire backplane. They will cut a few small Hole and covers in the back panel. Allowing you to easily replace these parts. However, in recent years, ACER has begun to compromise on durability, which can be seen from the reduction in the hardness of the chassis and the design of the heat dissipation vents in recent years. After all, consumers are the vast majority. Everyone wants a cheap computer with good performance. And durability is hard to prove. The above is my experience, so I think it's a bit strange to think of Acer as a value brand. (English is not my native language, these are translated from Google.)
I had hp and Lenovo in the past and currently Acer: Was most dissapointed with Lenovos build quality compared to Acer and HP. Acer and HP are/where both alright.
I've had some Acer computers in the past and I have to say I wasn't happy with the brand but at the time that's what I could afford. Now it's HP and Apple all the way with a sprinkle of Samsung in between.
I bought an Acer predator laptop, the battery took a crap in the first year, and the fans started making some awful noises. Not sure I'll buy another acer based off build quality alone.
Had an acer swift 3 a few years ago, it was a great laptop and super durable, surviving many falls on my travels with the solid aluminum case. But I needed more memory, so "upgraded" to a high spec Dell, except with the cheap dell vostro case. The Dell ran super hot, all the time. The cooling was completely insufficient for the specs. 18 months in and it was overheatting regularly, to the point of emergency shut off. I wanted to duplicate my old acer swift 3 experience, but they don't do them anymore in my size , and they just had some weird 'eco' machines with no special features and standard prices. Ended up with an Asus and I'm super happy with it. Superior to dell, BUT that new dell was worse than my old acer. I would say the Asus matches the old Acer, besides being more modern, obviously. Case not as nice though.
1.) nobodies keeping a computer 💻 for 7 years (except Macs) 2.) “computers” as defined in this video are mostly unneeded today with iPads, iPhones 📱 & streaming devices My case isn’t super common but I’ve gone from literally spending 8 hours a day in front of a computer 🖥️ for over a decade, to maybe 🤔 8 hours a week. And that’s mainly because of company limitations.
Acer responsible the brand bring laptop at all spec at cheap prices. remember acer aspire 5051 ? if want to repeat this momment just bring in Chrome OS with All Spec
5,63 years average for upgrade Me 😒 who used my first PC for 5 years. And this computer is still in use by relatives for simple browsing, although it is a 21 years old device now. I changed it not for update, but because I could buy from shutting down office newer used PC in great condition very cheap.
Acer was my first laptop. Aside from the hinge which is dogshit by itself, and that my laptop has USB-C but no Thunderbolt & PD support, it's still very capable and very user-upgradeable.
To me, Acer feels like it's only associated with cheap product. Although 15 years ago, they are the most popular laptop brand during my uni years, nowadays when I'm looking for a laptop either for myself or families, the thinking is it's worth to pay more for more reputable brands. To my surprise, I used to think Lenovo is on par or below Asus but nowadays their laptop reputation has shoot up. I was looking for a new laptop recently and can't believe my eyes when I find a lot of videos on RU-vid praising Lenovo Yoga and Legion series.
This. Acer has always been a cheap brand. If you wanted a cheap computer, an Acer was good enough. However, the problem is that its offerings were literally limited to low end. Sure they had their more upspec offerings but at that price, you could get some other better brand with less quality issues. My first laptop was an Acer and it was okay. But as I upgraded, their choices were very limited to my growing needs and others dell gave better value for money. Lenovo has always been an upmarket brand because it used to be known as IBM. The good thing is that Lenovo keep the quality.
Keeping PC's 4, 5 or 6 years before upgrading. LOL, okay guys! Apparently nobody in those stats EVER has to move from house to house, or EVER travels around with their laptop. If you do travel, a laptop just gets chewed to bits. Trust me on this one. Most of them just don't hold up to constant bumping around being taken out, set up, put back in, etc etc. Acer is fine. They could definitely work on quality in their laptops, but they always seem to come with good GPU's, CPU's and other stuff that matters. ASUS is the one I haven't been impressed with for years. Their stuff always look so cool with all the LED's, but they are too much money and too little computer.
I had an Acer prebuilt built sometime in the early 2000s. Used it all the way until 2016; thing was basically e-waste by the time I finally upgraded to my new PC it was so behind 🥲
Not sure which part of Asia you're at, but Acer presence is definitely weak in my part of Asia. Yea, some students still bought their budget line-up but most people would pick a Lenovo, Dell & Macbooks.
I'm watching this in Canada on a fantastic new speedy $600 ACER chromebook that I've been using exclusively for the past few months. Meanwhile, my very costly DELL and Lenovo Windows laptops, under 3 years old, are collecting dust due to both hardware and horrendous Win-11 issues (esp with so called power-management that's failed in every version of Windows, but more so in Win-11).
@@teykengwei I've been in good luck with Acer gaming laptop , last longer than any laptop i bought so far (3 acers still working the first one was from 2010 , 1 death dell , 1 death Asus , 1 death clevo). I don't care much about brand though I just buy something that goes well with me , Acer budget line-up might be cheap but their top of the line gaming laptop ain't cheap btw , you 'll get what you pay for brand matter less
Crazy to me Acer is struggling. These guys have the best budget lineup, plenty of spare parts, good pricing, and warranties that go above and beyond, fixing something I destroyed myself accidentally.. Yet people are saying they fall apart with poor warranty? Idk about other models but I got an Aspire 5 and soon 4-5 other people picked one up because it was cheap, reliable, easy to repair, and there are even pretty powerful models that don't look overcooked.
My main laptop is still a Phenom II laptop of theirs, the Aspire 5552. Somehow, it's still in pristine shape and after re-pasting and re-padding the heatsink and replacing the battery, I don't see it breaking for a long time. I did have a 2007 17 inch travelmate 7720 whose hinge snapped, though. Can't believe that the hinge was built into the shell plastic rather than the screen frame.
Same, I still have Aspire V5-431 from 2012 and it's still working with no problem except from the aging Pentium processor. I replace the CD ROM bay and slap the 2TB hard drive caddy, now use it for offline media archive storage
i also own and use 3 Acer laptops. From nomal laptop Acer Aspire, Acer Nitro 5 and the Acer Predator Helios 16. All of them still working good, except the aspire. The batteries is already bad (8 y.o at this point)
Me too. Bought my Acer Spin 5 back in 2017. In 2023, I bought a Surface Laptop 5 to replace it but the SL5 ran into hardware issues recently and I had to send it in for a replacement. In the meantime, I dug out my Spin 5 for use. Updated it to Win11 and it still works like a charm.
my first laptop was an acer, it was as okay performing according to its price but man it stayed with me for 6 years, no issues whatsoever, i grew up with it
Watching this video on my ACER All-In-One desktop PC. VERY happy with the quality and price. I purchased this AIO through Amazon two years ago, so I was able to finance this over a year with no interest rate.
Acer went on a greed route and didnt have to. whatthey offered never kept up . I will say that im happy with my acer laptop from 2019 stil the redetorbut when i see newer specs its not as appealing like it once was .
I’m pretty happy with my Acer Nitro 5. Got it at a deep discount compared to other brands. It took 3 minutes to install a second SSD. Hope it lasts! It feels well built except for the hinges which are a bit wobbly. We’ll see!
@@shiro3146 , I have rather old one, Nitro 5 AN515 with Ryzen 5 and Nvidia 1650 GPU, so this may vary with newer/more powerful ones. I always use a cooling pad (simplest one, an aluminum frame with no fans), also limiting CPU load in Windows power settings, and capping framerate in Nvidia's tool. With that setup laptop is quite cold. Never seen CPU over 50 degree Celcius, even playing Cyberpunk 2077
I HATED Acer. I used to own a Laptop from them, when I was a kid. Really poor performance, loud and especially the drive constantly died. I applied several warranties, where after few weeks the next system drive died. At some point I had enough and wanted all my money back, which luckily worked.
Words cannot describe my hate for non-IBM Windows laptops from before about 2012. They were all so ugly, so terribly built, so loud and so hot running. It took way too long for any of the competition to catch up to IBM/Lenovo and Apple. When I see a modern HP or Dell laptop, still the first thing I think of is "trash". All because they couldn't be bothered to make a quality product 15 years ago.
Now a days hp is mistake don't buy, i will call them e-waste because of how bad there quality is from personal experience. If you want a new laptop go with dell, asus and acer
My desktop once was a lenovo, but now only the exterior case, which i quite like, remains. It's gone full ship of theseus, wo can we even still call it a Lenovo?
I still own the Acer laptop I bought on early 2015. I have a newer laptop but Acer is the main one I use at home as desktop. Upgraded from 4gb Ram to 16 gb Ram, and from 512gb hdd to 2 tb SSD. It really works very well. I could use this for many years to come. I can not install Windows 11 on this, but I plan to keep using windows 10 and maybe switch entirely to Linux. I really dislike Windows 11. Had it on my work pc, but I formatted the laptop and installed windows 10. My experience with Acer has been very good.
@@MuammarQadaffiJust use VMs and emulation. Microsoft's Dirty Operative System is no longer Quick (get it? haha). So it might as well just be a sub process on a superior system, just like most legacy programs (OG Mac OS, Amiga, ZX, you name it).
My aced laptop is from 2016, convertible and still works like intended. Also its very easy to repair. I actually swapped my i5 mobo with an i7 mobo from ebay. When you are low on cash, acer is great start.
Whelp, I'm on an Acer Laptop right now. Previous was a Lenovo. Aside for the world's shittiest built in speakers it's been a great laptop so far. I've had it for about 18 months. Paid $2500 for one with 3080Ti back then. Still available for $2200 now.
My first Laptop was an Aspire One D150, my second one was an Aspire v3-771g. Both of them still work fine and the latter one even in regular use. I had to replace the fan and added a SSD and some RAM though. Pricing was always and is still very relevant to me, the v3 was cheaper because it came without Windows. I try to get what I need for the lowest price possible, I don't care about the brand.
Perhaps the BIGGEST folly of Acer was downright poor quality and unreliability. Acer was never a reliable brand that made long-lasting laptops. Mostly Micro and Small Companies bought Acer laptops owing to the Value Proposition. Their Screens were terrible, the drives unreliable, and Battery Performance was abysmal. This meant the overall experience of using an Acer laptop left a VERY bad taste. This video perfectly nails the BIGGEST reason for Acer's decline. Consumers want a decent laptop that lasts long. Acer hurt itself by going the extremely cheap route. It could offer better laptops, but buyers now assume Acer stuff is cheap and unreliable.
People judge their Laptops yet they're powered by the basic intel processor and they're comparing them to i's and M's. To be honest it isn't all that bad, it's usable, it's just failing to compete with Dell, Hp and Lenovo.
I've owned PCs and laptops from Acer, Samsung, Dell, HP, and ASUS. Out of these brands, I find Acer to be the most reliable. I've never had an Acer die on me. The worst for me is Dell which died after 1 year.
One other point with Acer is that they were the manufacturing company for the Texas Instruments computers, largely laptops. Acer bought out TI and continued to manufacture the TI's replacing the TI branding with Acer, continuing to manufacture and develop products.
When I worked as a computer technician in the 2000’s/early 2010’s, by far the most common machines I’d see in for repair were Acers, complete with their slow Celeron CPUs, cheap ECS motherboards and cheap power supplies. Aspire SA80’s were the worst with their crap caps. When one of those came in I generally knew what the problem was before I touched it. They were crap to deal with as well. Good riddance.
I've handled ASUS computers a few times. One time my own and a few times helping to fix problems with PC's of my friends. My exprience: ASUS is crap and I will choose Acer always over ASUS bc whenever I encounter problems with Acer hardware they always turned out far easier and better to be resolved and fixed
Ironically, the day this was posted, which I only had the chance to watch now, I baught a fully loaded Acer, I always thought they were doing well, Didn't expect this
This makes me sad. Acer are currently second best major manufacturer in terms of build, design and overall laptop quality - right after Lenovo. ASUS are alright. Dell are quite meh. HP both make crappy laptops and are scumbags in general. Yet they aren't going bankrupt.
10:34 Acer never built a brand as a main reason why sales have plummeted? A Brand falls apart within years when they miss what people are looking for. Sony Vaio was a massive brand - but they gave up building industry leading or at least competitive products - and things went downhill pretty fast. The Acer I bought back then was easily running circles around most other laptops if you could live with a fragile plastic shell. But for the following years no brand than apple took reasonable innovation steps. If Acer had built something similar to the Dell XPS Series with a plastic shell, they would have sold well. But in fact, they even cheaped out on display quality compared to their older models.
