Comments on: ACER Aspire One and the weird RAM thingees

By: Sravan

Sravan — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:36:04 +0000

Service is at best avoided, Ramesh. A lot of them provide godawful service.

Merry Chrimstmas. :)

By: Ramesh Chatolani

Ramesh Chatolani — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:35:46 +0000

After buying the acer aspire one (winxp 120GB) – i will never ever again buy an acer product. Since a lot of my friends and relatives ask for my opinion before they buy a computer = i have told all of them to stay away from acer. They have lousy service and yet they did not make the aspire one easy to service yourself – changing the hard drive, add ram, extremely noisy ram and so many other issues

By: Sravan

Sravan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:04:11 +0000

Sorry, Remi. That’s a bummer. Customer service is hard to get unless we seem to be in their “chosen” list. I just don’t get it.

Regarding the thought about MacBook, if customer service is the only driver of that thought, read this: http://blog.davidglover.org/2008/11/surprisingly-poor-customer-service-from-apples-itunes-store.html

By: Remi Een

Remi Een — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:01:50 +0000

I bought an Acer Aspire One (AAO) this fall and within weeks the screen blacked out upon booting. Rather than replacing my AAO , Acer referred me to a technical repair depot. After 6 weeks still no word – then two weeks ago after calling Acer they said they would send me a new one on “back-order” – still no sight of it. Today when i called they said they have no idea when the “back-order” will be filled. Just wonderful customer support – not! Wish i had bought a MacBook now…..

By: Brian Reich

Brian Reich — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:11:08 +0000

Interesting article. The Information Technology class at the technical school that I work for has experimented with ACER portables in the past and we’ve been happy with them, sans a few odd hardware issues. Sounds like they’re up to their same old tricks!

By: John Ray Cabrera

John Ray Cabrera — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:11:03 +0000

i am teetering at a buying frenzy for a leneovo ideapad s10. and as you know it is one of the netbooks out there released in the market in the likes of Eee, MiniNote, Aspire, and Wind.

on my intensive research i also found out that lenovo 2Gb maximum expandability option only allows you ro upgrade up to 1.5Gb of RAM because the other 512MB is hidden somewhere in the mainboard. i found it to be a major letdown.

could it be because these netbook mainboards came from the same Taiwan manufacturer?