A very sad day indeed! just proves how vulnerable we all our to terrorism. Anna

don’t you mean are? 😉

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mr mainer, you know i dont disagree with you or normally debate.. but what would turning the middle east into a parking lot do.. just make one feel better at the spur of the moment, but it’ll solve nothing.

i hope you all and your family is okay..

maybe it’s real, maybe its a myth..or it could be both.. kinda like King Arthur… which would mean that the Aurora is really a Cessna with a fancy paint job.

now here’s a nice looking Ukrainian cement mixer

although a bit darker looking than your typical Ukrainian

…strange race… 😉

well its true, in fact if they look hard enough, they can see any color they want to see 😉

Face facts here – the notebook market is extremely fluid. The standard product life cycle for notebooks is approximately three to four months, at which point the next generation of notebook comes through. Sometimes a whole range reaches the end of its lifecycle, and replaced in that market segment by a new ‘family’ of notebook, which has usually spent about a year in R&D, with focus placed upon enhanced capability, reliability and desirability. I would also suggest that the numbers speak for themselves, and I can assure you that Acer would not have captured the number one slot in the UK low-end notebook market if they had a dog of a product. I speak from the standpoint of a Product Manager who has been responsible for ranging, marketing and selling notebooks, tablets, and pc’s from Acer, Sony, Toshiba, and HP, so I guess you could say I do actually know what I’m talking about, rather than just going off searching for other people’s (biased) quotes and posting them up in an attempt to look credible.

of course I’m biased, and you’re not?, everyone has their biases old boy. Acer, like almost everyone else, does not make their own notebook.. most of the name brands create contracts with ODMs such as Asus, Quanta, Uniwill, Compal, etc (virtually all Taiwanese, and some Chinese and Korean companies) who design and create the notebooks, which are then sold under their respective OEMs. For example Fujitsu-Siemen’s Amilo lines are Uniwill models, while most of HPs and Dell’s upper line models (i.e Latitudes) are Asus and Quanta. Asus has been known to design notebooks for high end companies such as Apple and gaming companies such as Voodoo.. plus they are alot cheaper from to buy directly, which is why i would reccomend them.

of course, I guess you are credible since your job seems to be exactly like the other person I quoted, but differ in the fact that you’re Steve Young, the man who fancies spitfires and old women.
As for me trying to be credible? well that’s as credible as me being the world’s best porn star. but at least i know better enough to accuse some one else of being “bias”

btw, before you make the worst mistake of your life, or your friend’s life.. a quote from elsewhere..

Acer has never had a good following. Back before they even made notebooks, their desktops BLEW….. I mean so bad that when you’d mention “asus” people would go.. “oh yeah, acer, I’ve heard of them, but i don’t like them” ……

Their notebooks are getting “fancier” but they still lack a LOT. Acer sent us some of their tablets a couple years ago as we had a huge call for tablets from connections we had in the medical field…. those tabets basically all broken down within a year and required replacement of many of the physical plastic parts on the system itself. With that, we found much better tablets that have made it through at least the last two years of real world use without any problems……

Whether it’s the plastic they use or what……… they physically don’y hold up well……. With that said, they don’t use Asus motherboards, and that’s the BIGGEST thing that Asus’ systems have going for them. Even if people know know the quality they’re going to get in their laptop, if they know Asus’ name in motherboards, they’ll know that even if they were built like junk, as long as they took care of it, it’s going to last them a good long time…… luckily, they are built well too and that’s something a lot of people find out after they buy them.

But Acer has gone the way of dell….. making the highest speced system that can pull in the most money and sell it cheap. There are things you’re not getting…. just because it has this cpu, this hard drive, this ram….. this video card… this screen…. it doesn’t mean that you’re getting everything you’d expect.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=19857

if you want quality, IBM leads by far, with Fujitsu, Asus, and LG being very good as well.

if you want a good deal, then Dell leads by far assuming you use the coupons (i dont know if the UK has them, but Canada and the states have them).