I tried updating, reinstalling *le sigh*.

IMO Toshiba laptops are the best in the industry so far.

We get this qustion alot on our show bits and bytes.

The truth is they are all pretty good with sound but quality is very low on most of the acer laptops.

Others have better sound, but as far as functionality they handle well all apps but remember lower memory in all results in poor quality too.


Bits and Bytes computer show.

suneradio.com

Acer are ok but the sound is ver low to hear.


In my opinion there all about the same it goes by what you want and what do want it to do.

I bought my acer laptop which i completely forgot the trade and mark but it lasted me all my years of college. The only thing that didnt last long was the battery..it was very weak during my 4th year. But I blame myself 90% for it because I wasnt taking good care of it, leaving it on for hours under blanket etc...but if i had to buy a new laptop, i will definetly go for ACER again

yes acer laptop are I have one runs great!!

NO!!. Its crap.

I am Not happy with My ACER aspire 5100. I have been using it about 5 hours a week and got an intermitent problem with the hardware during booting only 13 months after purchase. just out of warranty.

I would not buy an acer again. Better to pay a little more and get a reliable notebook. I have had 2 IBMs and a no-name clone notebook before and never had any issues.

In addition support from acer sucks. On their support site I found my problem and all it is says its a hardware issue. (yes that great help) Have replaced hardrive and memory sticks hopping this will fix it but no luck. the problem is with the mother board which means new notebook since servicing with acer will cost the same as getting a new one.

Would never buy an acer again.

For others who may have the same problem here is the error during boooting.

For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting

Um thats a simple error. Its trying to boot from a server on a wired network, which doesnt exist.

Just go into the BIOS, look at the boot order and make sure that the hard drive and / or cd drive come before the network card (May be called PXE or etherboot or something). Save, exit and reboot.

Normal life for nearly all laptop batteries is 1-2 years with lots of use.

jbennet you maybe right but I went trough similar scenario. Before everything went bad with laptop I received various error messages from network adapter, then it started swapping profiles on start up. What I mean by that is that laptop is fitted with mobile processor. On start I will get this mobile pentium logo ( blue and purple) in right corner and network will work. However next time I will start up there will be only classic pentium 3 logo and no network. When ever I started laptop I did not know if it will work or not.
I sent laptop to Acer for check out, this cost me £53 (some less then £10 for DHL pick-up&delivery and £40 plus VAT for 1 hour of technician work). After that they sent back note that basically motherboard need replacement and that will cost £321 (some £150 for component and rest for repair). As I need it that laptop very badly at that time and did not see any point in buying new (there is not much to get for £300 and I haven't got any extra on top of that), therefore I was left with only this option. To know that Acer will take full 30 days to actually repair it ( their policy is if we have components need it for repair we willing to fix it in 10 working days) I wouldn't do it and go for some second hand. When I received laptop I found out that outside cover of monitor is scratched as technician assembling my laptop was careless and drag it over screws. I called back to Acer asking how this happened, just to be told that my laptop was send back with out repair 3 weeks back (nice company record keeping). After explaining that I just received the laptop I was put on hold for 10 min, after which I was told they can arrange repair out of charge but I need to pay for DHL and "he is not sure if they have any front covers for model of my laptop". Hell, not again!!!
I will finish my story with few reasons I will never buy Acer again:

• laptop came with additional Acer tools that are useless
• the product productive life time is very short as their products often develop various faults (display - dead pixeles, vertical strip of different colour across screen, hinges brake down quickly; VGA or network card die)
• technical support has weak IT background
• repair records are not kept in order
• company provides zero drivers updates ( all drivers on the website are ancient)
• there is little care when goodies are in their possession (received laptop with scratches, from earlier repair HDD cover was not placed properly and screws loose)
• calling support is not the cheapest one

3 months ago I purchased Aspire 6930, Its pretty Awesome! I have owned other top brand name laptops such as Dell and Sony and have tried others like hp and toshiba, and honestly this laptop is alot of bang for the buck! a quality laptop for an Awesome price. Purchased at newegg.com for only $700 Intel Core 2 duo processor T6400 (2.0 Ghz, 800 FSB, 2MB L2 Cache), 16" HD Acer CineCrystal LCD, Up to 1695 MB Mobile Graphic Media Accelerator 4500MHD), 4 GB DDR2, 250 GB HDD, DVD Super Multi DL, 802.11 a/b/g/Draft N WLAN, Subwoofer, Vista home premium sp1 makes this laptop quite an experience being that I am new to Vista, This is a great deal. So far so good straight out the box. This can definitely replace your desktop with this wide and clear 16" LCD. This is a very attractive laptop has an illuminating acer logo on the top. Very happy!