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.
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
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
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.
Yep that may be true but in 2014 that is when acer started going downhill in quality and poor design like the E15 E5-521 66SN / Now I have a acer aspire 3 that microsoft screwed up majorly with missing drivers and even Linux mint cant get it to work because of the Kernel missing drivers. Only Lenovo is 100% supported by Linux and Dell and Asus... Even if you get a good used Lenovo - they still hold there value pretty good ...
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
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.
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.
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.
@@FreeAmericaFromIsraelJust 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).
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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?
The Aspire One held me down at my lowest around 2012. I had a low paying job and was homeless but needed a cheap, small durable Labtop. I eventually passed it on to my sister who needed a PC but i'll always remember how it was my lifeline and entertainment when i didn't have a home.
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.
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 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.
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.
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).
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.
There are some polarizing comments, i own 3 acer laptops and never had issues, turns out they resolved their quality issues in later models, so models after 2018 were pretty good, while older models had a lot of issues.
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.
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.
I bought a 2023 Acer Ryzen 3 laptop, 2022 Acer i5 laptop, and a Nitro 1440p monitor on a 50% sale, works perfectly fine. Acer laptop with the Ryzen 3 7230U was during a July 4th sale for $250. 15.6" 8GB RAM ddr5, 128GB NVMe SSD, for the price, I have zero complaints. It's definitely not slow for normal use. It's a budget friendly household laptop, thin and lightweight. Screen quality is average and it runs cool. I don't need a big storage, I have a desktop for that and 2 portables hard drives. If I can use it to pay bills and stream to my TV, I'm good with it.
I got an Acer computer when I was a kid, and that thing broke so easily. Screen started to give out quick too, and half the screen became static-y. And then the keyboard mostly cut out, even the input for an external computer keyboard wouldn't work on the keys affected
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.
Sandy Bridge? Was using Windows 7 with ESU bypass to the last day, then tolerated Windows 10 for 9 months and switched to Whiskey Lake because of Windows 11, performance and security.
9:06 not for Baden-Würtemberg, Germany, as schools there last replaced the Computers in 2016, which was 8 Years ago already. I could tell that but the Looks of the Laptops and also the Outdated software on them. they are running Firefox on Version 60.x esr
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
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
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.
I actually own an example of all those brands. My newest computer is an Acer predator, My server is Lenovo, and I have two HP laptops, and Dell. Did not know acer was in that shape in the US. I must say, The Acer and the HP are my favorites
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
11:50 there is room for toshiba. Not late toshiba mindset though. The 90s one. Satellites were originally prosumer laptops. Coming with thicc boy case holding own cdrom and decent chunk of battery.
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 have an Acer b/c it was cheap for the specs it came with (3060 and ryzen 5 5600h for $650 in 2021) and I haven't had any problems with it. Only thing is the battery life is trash, but I don't use it on battery much anyway.
I bought a 2023 Acer Ryzen3 7320U. 128 NVMe SSD, 8gb ddr5, 15.6" screen, light weight, runs cool, decent battery life on eco mode for $250. Almost 1 year in and no complaints. Even bought a Nitro 1440p monitor for $160 during a sale in 2020. Everyone want the best specs and most expensive, I just want whatever that suits my needs for a good price.
In recent years, the only product I know that Acer has done somewhat successfully is the BiFrost Arc A770 GPU. They're a board partner for Intel's 'Arc' line of GPUs which makes sense, considering Acer is essentially a budget/"bargain bin" level OEM and Intel has positioned their Arc cards towards the "high margin" market (low to midrange).
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.
My 11 year old acer laptop is still alive. The only thing that is dead is the dvd and one usb slot. But still functional. Unfortunately, i need to replace this laptop with a new one because new applications no longer runs on this old specs laptop. I wanted to buy new acer laptop but i was discouraged by my coworkers and encourage me to buy lenovo instead
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
Thats because Acer for some reason tried to target the low-end segment with outdated processors and parts. They literally will put out a budget laptop that cant even keep two chrome tabs functioning efficiently
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.
I have Acer Aspire before, I know a few things about computers thats why I maintained it well and upgraded some parts. Its cheap plus with a nice specs compared to other brands within the same price range
Funny how most of the computers in my college are of Acer and Dell. Even the crappy potato PC I have now is of Acer. I guess the reason is that they can't provide overall good computers at a reasonable price. It's been a long while since I've seen them dive into the budget gaming laptop category.
See the Acer Nitro V15-51. I have one with an i7-13620H CPU, Nvidia RTX 4050 6GB, 16GB DDR5 5200 Mhz, NVME4 SSD 512GB, 144 HZ FHD screen (decent). It was just 1100 euros in my country. It has only LED keys not RGB but I wouldn't pay 100 euros extra for those anyway. I putted in it 32GB RAM (replaced the ones it had) and added another 2TB SSD, that raises the price up to 1300 euros.
@@silver3178 nice, you are from USA I guess. Electronics are cheaper there, the stupid UE usually puts a lot of custom taxes and my contry does too. Is it exactly the same, (ddr5-5200 Mhz, i7-13620H, etc)? If it is you had a great deal indeed, with the 4050 would have beem maybe 150$+).
I'm still using my 5 years old acer aspire and it's still working fine for daily use. It's an old model that still has cd driver in it, laptops nowadays don't have cd driver.
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.
I haven't had an acer that didn't screw me over on it's screen durability, hinge durability, and battery life. I'm glad the market share fell significantly.
watching this video on my sweet ACER monitor, while thinking of my laptops from 2009 and 2011 which are still working and show no signs of dying anytime soon, the acer aspire and acer travelmate, needless to say if at all i again require a laptop i will be looking for an acer product only.
Acer, the computer company, is a Taiwanese multinational headquartered in Xizhi, New Taipei City. They are doing well and are not bankrupt. In fact, as of 2024, they are the world's sixth-largest personal computer vendor by unit sales.
After researching the market with 700$ budget I bought an acer in 2022 it is still going strong I have little to no issues while using it. Multiple (4-5) excel workbooks with links and 10+ sheets with 80*10 cell data as well as firefox with multiple tabs open in the background and 1 or 2 more apps constantly running almost everytime. On the other hand I have had 3 ppl close to me buy HP and I have never seen this many issues from the same brand in my life like 1 HP was idk around the same price as my HP but gave out less than a year since purchase while the specs were not ideal buy still less than a year!? The other one is a pavalion which retailed for 1.2-1.4 brand new but was bought used and for that price nothing was perfect like slow boot up of softwares and short battery life which was baffling me especially at that cost. Last HP cost around 1k$ and a coworker bought it but it showed the blue screen of death multiple times and shut off deleting any unsaved data as well as lagging when connected via HDMI cable to a monitor and yes different cables were tried and settings were changed to no avail later was taken in for maintenance more than 3 times. First they changed the keyboard claiming it was liquid damaged then ports and lastly the motherboard only screen is unchanged which at that point just throw the whole laptop away and get another one. So in my eyes Acer is good 🙂
I bought a Acer laptop in 2011 that was second hand and the motherboard just started playing up a few years ago. Also I loved what they did with their key board .
Yeah, I have to agree with the previous comment. You can't call BS without providing a few examples. Content creators don't set out to provide inaccurate information. Let the dude know, I'm sure he'd appreciate it.
I find it fascinating that being a 'budget' brand, Acer seems to be struggling both in the developed and developing market. I never knew that their lack of brand identity is what makes them struggle in the developed market, as explained in this video. Before watching this video, I thought for sure that acer is struggling because of their quality control, or at least the less-than-favorable perception of their quality control. That's exactly what happened in where I live, a certain developing market. In fact, their image of being the trashy cheap brand has gotten so bad that the name "Acer "is commonly parodied as being the abbreviation for "breaks easily" in the local language. As that tech guy who everyone always ask for recommendation, every time I recommended an acer, most people would immediately ask for an alternative from another brand. This is despite my personal experience of owning an Acer and having a much better experience than Asus or Lenovo. Of course, it's all entirely anecdotal so I really can't back up my statements with hard data. But still, watching this video gave me some pretty interesting insights. Namely, the Acer situation seems like it comes down to their branding. The exact problem in branding manifests differently in different market; in the developing market (or at least where I live) it's brand image, while in the developed market it's brand identity.
10 years ago I bought my only Acer ever,I paid 900 € and problems started after 10 months.First- my plastic hinge cover just randomly would fly off every time I would open the sceen. Second- touch pad died at 14 months of ownership.Three- right hinge just fell off after 16 months,next day I just threw it to e waste and bought Lenovo Y 50 which became my favorite gaming laptop ever and which served me for almost 10 years.My current laptop is Lg Gram pro!!
I still remember my subsidized laptop for school was an Acer laptop. It used a HDD and it had i7 and some nvidia gpu which I do not know the mofel of it (that was in 2017). Fast forwaed to 2020, I was able to get another one which is also an Acer laptop but this one has a worse spec imo. It use an i5 and only an iGPU and the HDD has gotten so slow at doing anything except browsing the web. Unfortunately, the 2017 Acer model has stopped working about 2-3 years ago and one of the hinge has broke. I was surprised to see that the 2017 model had a disc drive reader.
I do own 2 old Acer Aspire laptops (5552g and 5315) and I used the former until January of this year because the Delta Electronics charger failed all of a sudden, and the latter I bricked within 2 days of getting it from an academy after a failed firmware upgrade. It's a shame because that 5315 would've been a decently reliable laptop for old software. And the conclusion is: Their budget laptops are most likely gonna be hot garbage but their high end shit can sometimes be better than other brands like Asus or Lenovo
Acer doesn't seem to do good in the USA market, but in Asia and Europe, they are very popular. I had a budget Acer that lasted 9 years without any repairs, another Acer laptop is going strong for its 5th year and I bought another Acer laptop just because I need a little bit more power for my work and a bigger screen. I wasn't intentionally looking for Acer, I knew the specs I wanted and I was ready to get any brand that offered them and Acer had them at a reasonable price, its competitors offered the same specs or less at a higher price. I think Acer isn't really focused on branding and creating a user experience, for example, their boxes are just brown cardboard boxes with a black Acer logo.
In 2018 I was scouting for a gamer laptop and wanted an ROG. But when I was in the store the Sales rep from "Predator" sold me pretty well the machine. Almost at the end he told me that it was an Acer laptop. Aside from my macbook for work, the Triton 700 still is a great machine.
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!
This is interesting. I remember when I was going to Uni in South America, mid 90's. IBM and Apple Computers were reserved for Professionals working for big corporations or the usual rich kids. Dell and Toshiba were really popular in the premium market and the bottom market was full with IBM Clones. But Acer was in the middle. It was the computer to get if you didn't trust the Clones, but didn't have the money for a Dell or a Toshiba and it continued like that throughout the early 2000s. What you said makes a lot of sense: Acer was huge when people changed their computers every 2-3 years, but now with a cycle closer to 7 years, people don't seem to care much if they spend 3000$ on a MacBook Pro if it lasts 7 years.
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.
Bought an Acer Aspire in 2013.. still using it today.. After Win10 EOL next year I'LL install Manjaro KDE and carry on using it. It's pretty slow being a quad core, but good for surfing and playing vids on the TV.
Crazy to hear this. I got myself a new Acer Nitro 5 last year and it has been great for me. Battery life is meh but with a 12700H and a 3070 mobile, battery life was never going to be great to begin with. Had room for two extra drives and up to 32GB of RAM.
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
garbage hinges, garbage cooling, garbage plastic construction, and very difficult to repair often with HDD and memory on the keyboard side of the mobo requiring an insane amount of work
Using an Acer Nitro 5 as we speak. Built like a tank, easily upgradable components, and really good value for money. I'm saying this as someone who had Samsung, Lenovo, and Asus laptops, all within the same price range.
man, I was so proud when I got my first laptop, an Acer in 2009. It looked so cool and good performance for the money. Fun fact, 7 years later when I met my wife, she basically had the same laptop 😅
watching this on my acer laptop with broken flickering screen that is just connected to old tv. on facebook i joined an acer community group and almost everyday i see someone with broken screen problem
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.
i am using helios for more than half a decade, never had a problem until recently with screen
They have improved in recent years but their laptops used to be terrible
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.
bad thing laptop acer their screen easy broken from little black dot take time sure become half black screen
Acer product has good warranty, but their build quality is mediocre at best.
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
but sometimes it really pain in the ass just to disassemble the laptop
@@ariekowidodo7285 because you never tried to disassemble the plastic hps like the hp laptop 250
@@alexlextar9270 i mean the acer laptop not hp, i had one of that
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
@MissMuffin-qc8fc we are talking about Acer and not apple 😂😂
Acer is still HUGE in Asia though. Just because a company can't put a foothold in the USA, doesn't mean it's not able to cope.
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.
@@teykengwei whice asia are you, i guess in my country at least acer still strong here
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).
@@teykengweiin Malaysia, majority student in University bought Acer because a lot of sparepart and it's cheap.
@@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
Their market share lasted about as long as their laptop hinges
so true
Ouch i felt that
You're being too generous to the hinges. On mine, they lasted about 8 months
my 1st ever laptop was an Acer back in 2001.. hinges lasted less than a year
I've had an Acer laptop for 7 years and its hinges still work fine after years of daily use
0:16 oh wow Lenovo updated their logo.
lol
shows you the attention of details that goes into this video
@@ChristophBackhaus weird, but okay
I have a Lenovo monitor sitting around with a build date of 2015 and it still has the old-style logo.
Plus Easter eggs give you something to look for while watching, Fireship uses tons of them@@ChristophBackhaus
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.
Yep that may be true but in 2014 that is when acer started going downhill in quality and poor design like the E15 E5-521 66SN / Now I have a acer aspire 3 that microsoft screwed up majorly with missing drivers and even Linux mint cant get it to work because of the Kernel missing drivers. Only Lenovo is 100% supported by Linux and Dell and Asus... Even if you get a good used Lenovo - they still hold there value pretty good ...
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
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.
Obviously. Predator competes with ROG and Legion , so what do you expect?
people who saying "acer is bad" are just idiots because they just used acer aspire or nitro 5 which are the cheapest laptops from acer
@@Saeedalikhann I'm using a Nitro 5 right now. 5 years old and the only thing that broke was the screen.
@@blazinglightgt8673 how did u breake it
@@Saeedalikhann Normal use. Oh and it has no battery either.
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.
Glad to hear that Acer has served you well man. Battery life is definitely a worse for all non Apple laptops.
I have the same laptop
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.
i have the same laptop currently
I own and use 2 acer laptops (7 and 10 years) for leisure use. Still going strong….
So acer is good but they failed in marketing i think
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
@@girishkumar4237their quality control is really inconsistent though, some had really good experiences while some had nightmares
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)
0:20 bro didn't find the lenovo logo bruh
Ikr 😂😂😂😂😂
The source files got missing.
pfft haha 😂🤣🤣
"Lenovo has no logo"
Bro bro bro bro. Quit trying to be "hood people". Nerds trying to act like they're from the ghetto.
Acer was my very first laptop. It served me quite well.
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.
it was my very first pc aswell
same. and currently still using a acer laptop for gaming and for my work
@quynhvir I'm gessing your brother's laptop suffered from thermal stresses from a high power GPU in it.
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.
I still use my 11 inch 2012 aspire one v5 to this day. It runs like a dream with low requirement linux distros.
Stopping using Windows literally 3-4xed my battery life. But you will need to make some compromises to have a change this significant...
Go Linux, go!
@@FreeAmericaFromIsraelJust 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).
@@FreeAmericaFromIsraelcan you elaborate how and what you did?
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.
Acer is still relevant in Canada. Most PCs and laptops I see at Best Buy are either HP, ASUS, Dell, MSI, Lenova or Acer.
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.
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!
Double on that. My Nitro 5 has even third SSD. Rarely a laptop has support for 3 drives. I'm using mine for 2.5 years already, it works great
I am a nitro 5 owner myself I have been using it for the past month I am enjoying it very much!!!!
Be glad because my Nitro V15 Nitro had still reversed mobo, it was a pain to install an SSD alone
ive heard some Nitro 5 has overheating issues?
doyou guys experienced that? or it just another bogus
@@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
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 .
Getting financing for a computer is pretty wild...
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.
Oof haha
Good that u could get the money back, but could you tell us how was the process for it?
Ok? I still have mine from 2008 and sorry to say Acer never made drives🤔
Well you were a kid. Back then a lot of laptops were not good just like the Acer one you had
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.
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?
The Aspire One held me down at my lowest around 2012. I had a low paying job and was homeless but needed a cheap, small durable Labtop. I eventually passed it on to my sister who needed a PC but i'll always remember how it was my lifeline and entertainment when i didn't have a home.
Hope they pivot to reliability and repairability.
They are still the most repairable brand. Also they sell a lot of spare parts. I never had trouble in repairing Acer laptops.
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.
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 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.
1. Quality control issues.
2. Poor(terrible) after sales service.
3. Lack of innovation with changing market m
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.
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).
And how's it doing with its temperatures? Does it overheat?
@@linnymiddy Never, not even once.
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 have an acer prebuilt desktop from 2009. Still works after 15 years. And an Acer Nitro 5 from 2018 , that i still game on. Never had any issues
Just got myself a brand new Acer Aspire 5 laptop, and this video makes me even more proud to have helped an underdog fight back for their heydays
There are some polarizing comments, i own 3 acer laptops and never had issues, turns out they resolved their quality issues in later models, so models after 2018 were pretty good, while older models had a lot of issues.
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.
One of the few creators i look forward to seeing. Not positive. Not negative. Just objective reality and wonderful production.
Thanks 🍻
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.
They are bad quality
2 Acer laptops, 2021 with an i5 and 2023 Ryzen3 7320U, 27" Nitro 1440p monitor and they all been working perfectly fine.
Savage hahaha
dumb luck and maybe fact its not got an nvidia gpu google acer and nvidia issue lol @@DroneStrike1776
@@DroneStrike1776single persons experience
@@liiillllliiilllliilllliii9461 Nope. I also have a great experience with Acer laptop.
I bought a 2023 Acer Ryzen 3 laptop, 2022 Acer i5 laptop, and a Nitro 1440p monitor on a 50% sale, works perfectly fine.
Acer laptop with the Ryzen 3 7230U was during a July 4th sale for $250. 15.6" 8GB RAM ddr5, 128GB NVMe SSD, for the price, I have zero complaints. It's definitely not slow for normal use. It's a budget friendly household laptop, thin and lightweight. Screen quality is average and it runs cool. I don't need a big storage, I have a desktop for that and 2 portables hard drives. If I can use it to pay bills and stream to my TV, I'm good with it.
I got an Acer computer when I was a kid, and that thing broke so easily. Screen started to give out quick too, and half the screen became static-y. And then the keyboard mostly cut out, even the input for an external computer keyboard wouldn't work on the keys affected
They still make decent monitors. (I own 2)
Same. Currently sitting here looking at my 5 year old 32 monitor. Still works great.
Yeah, one of their remaining strong sectors
I'm thinking acer vs Gigabyte for my monitor. Any suggestions?
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 still have a acer laptop upgraded to widows 10 still going strong. 13 years old already
Sandy Bridge? Was using Windows 7 with ESU bypass to the last day, then tolerated Windows 10 for 9 months and switched to Whiskey Lake because of Windows 11, performance and security.
9:06 not for Baden-Würtemberg, Germany, as schools there last replaced the Computers in 2016, which was 8 Years ago already. I could tell that but the Looks of the Laptops and also the Outdated software on them. they are running Firefox on Version 60.x esr
A lot of my friends did not knew existence of Acer. They often referred it as Jade.
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
Hey, @LogicallyAnswered... what's your policy on citing sources for your videos?
Because I see your pastebin, but it does not appear to cover any of the DOZENS of video sources you've made use of.
good question
My first laptop was an Acer and it was alright until it died and wont boot. Got it fixed and it died again. That was my last Acer laptop to this day
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
I have a cheap HP laptop and the plastic chassis is very fragile.
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.
I bought 2 acer refurbished laptops on ebay for $300 each (core i3, 8 gb of ram) and they have been awesome.
I have had acer travelmate p276 since 2016. Bought it second hand, Very reliable, still going strong today
I have used a Helios 300 for nearly 5 years now and it's great. It was also decently priced for its performance
I have a 10 year old Acer desktop at home and it's still my primary computer. Never had problems with it. I wouldn't hesitate to buy another one.
Great video brother!!! Have a great weekend!!
Have a great weekend Daniel!
I actually own an example of all those brands. My newest computer is an Acer predator, My server is Lenovo, and I have two HP laptops, and Dell. Did not know acer was in that shape in the US. I must say, The Acer and the HP are my favorites
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
11:50 there is room for toshiba. Not late toshiba mindset though. The 90s one. Satellites were originally prosumer laptops. Coming with thicc boy case holding own cdrom and decent chunk of battery.
Got me a acer Aspire 5 15 inch and it’s been damn great. Battery life ain’t the best but it’s performance is great
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 have an Acer b/c it was cheap for the specs it came with (3060 and ryzen 5 5600h for $650 in 2021) and I haven't had any problems with it. Only thing is the battery life is trash, but I don't use it on battery much anyway.
I bought a 2023 Acer Ryzen3 7320U. 128 NVMe SSD, 8gb ddr5, 15.6" screen, light weight, runs cool, decent battery life on eco mode for $250. Almost 1 year in and no complaints. Even bought a Nitro 1440p monitor for $160 during a sale in 2020.
Everyone want the best specs and most expensive, I just want whatever that suits my needs for a good price.
Fair enough
In recent years, the only product I know that Acer has done somewhat successfully is the BiFrost Arc A770 GPU. They're a board partner for Intel's 'Arc' line of GPUs which makes sense, considering Acer is essentially a budget/"bargain bin" level OEM and Intel has positioned their Arc cards towards the "high margin" market (low to midrange).
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.
My 11 year old acer laptop is still alive. The only thing that is dead is the dvd and one usb slot. But still functional. Unfortunately, i need to replace this laptop with a new one because new applications no longer runs on this old specs laptop. I wanted to buy new acer laptop but i was discouraged by my coworkers and encourage me to buy lenovo instead
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
Thats because Acer for some reason tried to target the low-end segment with outdated processors and parts. They literally will put out a budget laptop that cant even keep two chrome tabs functioning efficiently
6:36 I’ve seen that Lenovo Logo before
Hahaha
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.
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I have Acer Aspire before, I know a few things about computers thats why I maintained it well and upgraded some parts. Its cheap plus with a nice specs compared to other brands within the same price range
Funny how most of the computers in my college are of Acer and Dell. Even the crappy potato PC I have now is of Acer.
I guess the reason is that they can't provide overall good computers at a reasonable price. It's been a long while since I've seen them dive into the budget gaming laptop category.
See the Acer Nitro V15-51. I have one with an i7-13620H CPU, Nvidia RTX 4050 6GB, 16GB DDR5 5200 Mhz, NVME4 SSD 512GB, 144 HZ FHD screen (decent). It was just 1100 euros in my country. It has only LED keys not RGB but I wouldn't pay 100 euros extra for those anyway. I putted in it 32GB RAM (replaced the ones it had) and added another 2TB SSD, that raises the price up to 1300 euros.
@@CountPorculajust bought this exact model, although mine equips an RTX 3050, for 740 EUR. It was a great deal imo. Let's see how long it lasts
@@silver3178 nice, you are from USA I guess. Electronics are cheaper there, the stupid UE usually puts a lot of custom taxes and my contry does too. Is it exactly the same, (ddr5-5200 Mhz, i7-13620H, etc)? If it is you had a great deal indeed, with the 4050 would have beem maybe 150$+).
I'm still using my 5 years old acer aspire and it's still working fine for daily use. It's an old model that still has cd driver in it, laptops nowadays don't have cd driver.
I remember them computers!! That was a long time ago!!
For real, a different era of computing
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.
I haven't had an acer that didn't screw me over on it's screen durability, hinge durability, and battery life. I'm glad the market share fell significantly.
Savage take haha
watching this video on my sweet ACER monitor, while thinking of my laptops from 2009 and 2011 which are still working and show no signs of dying anytime soon, the acer aspire and acer travelmate, needless to say if at all i again require a laptop i will be looking for an acer product only.
Acer, the computer company, is a Taiwanese multinational headquartered in Xizhi, New Taipei City.
They are doing well and are not bankrupt. In fact, as of 2024, they are the world's sixth-largest personal computer vendor by unit sales.
After researching the market with 700$ budget I bought an acer in 2022 it is still going strong I have little to no issues while using it. Multiple (4-5) excel workbooks with links and 10+ sheets with 80*10 cell data as well as firefox with multiple tabs open in the background and 1 or 2 more apps constantly running almost everytime. On the other hand I have had 3 ppl close to me buy HP and I have never seen this many issues from the same brand in my life like 1 HP was idk around the same price as my HP but gave out less than a year since purchase while the specs were not ideal buy still less than a year!? The other one is a pavalion which retailed for 1.2-1.4 brand new but was bought used and for that price nothing was perfect like slow boot up of softwares and short battery life which was baffling me especially at that cost. Last HP cost around 1k$ and a coworker bought it but it showed the blue screen of death multiple times and shut off deleting any unsaved data as well as lagging when connected via HDMI cable to a monitor and yes different cables were tried and settings were changed to no avail later was taken in for maintenance more than 3 times. First they changed the keyboard claiming it was liquid damaged then ports and lastly the motherboard only screen is unchanged which at that point just throw the whole laptop away and get another one. So in my eyes Acer is good 🙂
Stan Shih sounds like a comic book alternate ego of Stan Lee 😂😅
I bought a Acer laptop in 2011 that was second hand and the motherboard just started playing up a few years ago. Also I loved what they did with their key board .
No mention of Acer's acquisition of Gateway in 2007?
Also, nice to see @DATT (Do All The Things !) at 5:39 ! Highly underrated content creator...
You don't buy a Acer twice.
Well i did. And its not that bad
My first laptop in 2007 was an ACER with AMD. I've had several over the years and was very happy with them. So it's strange that they're in decline.
Just unsubscribe, although some factual, there are statements and data that were inconsistent and not true at all just like any his videos.
You should point out which ones were inaccurate if you find any
Yeah, I have to agree with the previous comment. You can't call BS without providing a few examples. Content creators don't set out to provide inaccurate information. Let the dude know, I'm sure he'd appreciate it.
such as???
I find it fascinating that being a 'budget' brand, Acer seems to be struggling both in the developed and developing market.
I never knew that their lack of brand identity is what makes them struggle in the developed market, as explained in this video. Before watching this video, I thought for sure that acer is struggling because of their quality control, or at least the less-than-favorable perception of their quality control. That's exactly what happened in where I live, a certain developing market. In fact, their image of being the trashy cheap brand has gotten so bad that the name "Acer "is commonly parodied as being the abbreviation for "breaks easily" in the local language.
As that tech guy who everyone always ask for recommendation, every time I recommended an acer, most people would immediately ask for an alternative from another brand. This is despite my personal experience of owning an Acer and having a much better experience than Asus or Lenovo. Of course, it's all entirely anecdotal so I really can't back up my statements with hard data.
But still, watching this video gave me some pretty interesting insights. Namely, the Acer situation seems like it comes down to their branding. The exact problem in branding manifests differently in different market; in the developing market (or at least where I live) it's brand image, while in the developed market it's brand identity.
Acer is 🤮
10 years ago I bought my only Acer ever,I paid 900 € and problems started after 10 months.First- my plastic hinge cover just randomly would fly off every time I would open the sceen. Second- touch pad died at 14 months of ownership.Three- right hinge just fell off after 16 months,next day I just threw it to e waste and bought Lenovo Y 50 which became my favorite gaming laptop ever and which served me for almost 10 years.My current laptop is Lg Gram pro!!
I still remember my subsidized laptop for school was an Acer laptop. It used a HDD and it had i7 and some nvidia gpu which I do not know the mofel of it (that was in 2017). Fast forwaed to 2020, I was able to get another one which is also an Acer laptop but this one has a worse spec imo. It use an i5 and only an iGPU and the HDD has gotten so slow at doing anything except browsing the web. Unfortunately, the 2017 Acer model has stopped working about 2-3 years ago and one of the hinge has broke. I was surprised to see that the 2017 model had a disc drive reader.
I do own 2 old Acer Aspire laptops (5552g and 5315) and I used the former until January of this year because the Delta Electronics charger failed all of a sudden, and the latter I bricked within 2 days of getting it from an academy after a failed firmware upgrade. It's a shame because that 5315 would've been a decently reliable laptop for old software. And the conclusion is: Their budget laptops are most likely gonna be hot garbage but their high end shit can sometimes be better than other brands like Asus or Lenovo
My whole family has had Acer for years. My laptop just turned 7 and still going strong.
Bought acer predator back in 2017. Still running strong without issues
Acer doesn't seem to do good in the USA market, but in Asia and Europe, they are very popular. I had a budget Acer that lasted 9 years without any repairs, another Acer laptop is going strong for its 5th year and I bought another Acer laptop just because I need a little bit more power for my work and a bigger screen.
I wasn't intentionally looking for Acer, I knew the specs I wanted and I was ready to get any brand that offered them and Acer had them at a reasonable price, its competitors offered the same specs or less at a higher price.
I think Acer isn't really focused on branding and creating a user experience, for example, their boxes are just brown cardboard boxes with a black Acer logo.
In 2018 I was scouting for a gamer laptop and wanted an ROG. But when I was in the store the Sales rep from "Predator" sold me pretty well the machine. Almost at the end he told me that it was an Acer laptop. Aside from my macbook for work, the Triton 700 still is a great machine.
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!
This is interesting. I remember when I was going to Uni in South America, mid 90's. IBM and Apple Computers were reserved for Professionals working for big corporations or the usual rich kids. Dell and Toshiba were really popular in the premium market and the bottom market was full with IBM Clones. But Acer was in the middle. It was the computer to get if you didn't trust the Clones, but didn't have the money for a Dell or a Toshiba and it continued like that throughout the early 2000s. What you said makes a lot of sense: Acer was huge when people changed their computers every 2-3 years, but now with a cycle closer to 7 years, people don't seem to care much if they spend 3000$ on a MacBook Pro if it lasts 7 years.
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.
Bought an Acer Aspire in 2013.. still using it today.. After Win10 EOL next year I'LL install Manjaro KDE and carry on using it. It's pretty slow being a quad core, but good for surfing and playing vids on the TV.
Try more light versions.
Crazy to hear this. I got myself a new Acer Nitro 5 last year and it has been great for me. Battery life is meh but with a 12700H and a 3070 mobile, battery life was never going to be great to begin with. Had room for two extra drives and up to 32GB of RAM.
Ba careful with part breakage
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
garbage hinges, garbage cooling, garbage plastic construction, and very difficult to repair often with HDD and memory on the keyboard side of the mobo requiring an insane amount of work
Using an Acer Nitro 5 as we speak. Built like a tank, easily upgradable components, and really good value for money.
I'm saying this as someone who had Samsung, Lenovo, and Asus laptops, all within the same price range.
man, I was so proud when I got my first laptop, an Acer in 2009. It looked so cool and good performance for the money. Fun fact, 7 years later when I met my wife, she basically had the same laptop 😅
watching this on my acer laptop with broken flickering screen that is just connected to old tv. on facebook i joined an acer community group and almost everyday i see someone with broken screen problem