Acer notebooks - anyone?
Posted By: Amanda Howard on 2009-02-13
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I just bought an Acer notebook from Walmart. Anyone have experience with this they can share?
I know they are not much good for transcribing (too small), but I also go to college and seeing as they only weigh 1 pound, I thought it might be good to have.
Do you think I wasted my money? Should I have spent the extra $200 and got a real laptop?
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Notebooks...
Basically, you've already said it: Notebooks are great to take to college due to their small size, but for the same reason they don't make very good transcription workstations. It depends on which purpose you value more, and also whether you can only afford one or the other.
If you can afford both a notebook and laptop, that would obviously be ideal, using each for different purposes.
However, if you can only afford one, I'd go with the laptop because they're still quite transportable (for college), and yet will permit you to work comfortably for hours at a time. (If the extra 5 pounds or so is more than you want to carry, a rolling carrier that can haul your laptop as well as a backpack or bookbag can be purchased cheaply at Walmart. Or, you can get a rolling backpack and sling your laptop case onto the handle once it's extended.)
You can prolly recover most of your investment in the notebook if it's still in new condition. Just put an ad on the campus bulletin board, sell it, and get the laptop instead.
I have a 19 inch Acer (sm)
I am very happy with it. Crystal clear, much better for your eyes.
Acer notebook
I had a Radio Shack notebook several years ago. I loved it. It was back in the days of floppy discs 3 1/2 inch. I never had to have it serviced.
I have a laptop now and would not go any other way. I have used it for transcription for over four years and had very few problems other than spy ware which you can get on any computer. I got mine at Sams with s 3 year service agreement and never had to use it.
Hope this helps. Good luck either way you decide. I am sure you can take it back if you wish since you just bought it.
Acer and Wal-Mart
A netbook/notebook is made to check email, surf the net, do light transcribing. It should perform as well as a larger laptop and has a better battery life than a laptop (4-6h compared to 2-2.5h). You can check Consumer Reports or PC World to find out how well each brand performs. Acer is a nice unit, plus it has XP. Buy a full-size laptop and you get Vista.
As far as buying electronics from Wal-Mart, I buy all my PCs, cameras, etc., from there and have never had a problem with any of them. The PCs are the same as the ones in Staples, BestBuy, etc., just a $100 or more less. They also offer a service contract like the high-priced stores. No, I don't work there.
Bad experience with Acer s/m
A friend's daughter bought one for college and was never able to connect to the internet. Unfortunately, she waited past the time to return it before bringing it to me as I would have told her to return it. We could get her microsoft update to work, but nothing else. I tried for days to get through to their tech support, which was horrendous.
First you have to send an email explaining the situation and what you have done to fix it. They will then email you back with solutions and a number to call if it doesn't work. You have 7 days from the date of the email to take care of it. I called the number as everything they suggested had either been done or just did not work. Call was answered by someone in India of course, who could not fix the problem and needed to escalate the service. You then get transferred. Once transferred, the system automatically hangs up after 27 minutes. I was never able to get through to anyone no matter what I did. I called daily, several different times of the day, explaining that I was being disconnected, etc, to no avail.
She is going to take it to a computer repair shop locally to see if anything can be done, but after paying $500 for a laptop, why should she be paying for service on a new machine?
My son was just telling me last week that he was thinking of a laptop for college and mentioned the Acer and I told him to stay far away from it explaining what happened to our friend. I personally have had a Toshiba for almost 8 years (the same one!) and just love it. I am getting ready to buy a new one and will definitely choose Toshiba again.
Acer or Toshiba?
Hi. Bought 2 computers tonight. Which one do I keep? They are both approximately the same price -- Acer is $50 cheaper. I just want to know pros and cons of the brands. Thanks for any advice.
I bought an Acer monitor from
Walmart for in November of 2007 and it went kaput in December of 2008.  Hope you have better luck.
I also bought an Acer monitor
from Wal-Mart 2+ years ago and I love it and it's still going strong.
We have a few Acer laptops in our family. No probs. nm
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I also bought an Acer monitor from there in 11/2007
Mine still works great, though.
I have an Acer laptop, almost 3 years now, no problems at all.
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I bought an Acer monitor from Staples
It's been well over a year now... Towers are a different story, but I've had pretty good luck with e-machines from Best Buy.
Family member got an Acer recently. Working great for her. My PC
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