Have Acer products gotten better over the years?

[Tomsta]

Back when i was a young teenager (Over 10 years ago now, man i feel old) Acer products were known for being built to a budget rather than getting the best quality products in the price bracket they were aiming for. I have personally avoided Acer as a brand ever since then. With exception of their very high end products which do seem nice i have no idea about whether Acer products have actually gotten better over the years or whether they are still the same old song and dance of built to a budget and can be beaten by basically every brand out there

[Moonzy]

10 minutes ago, Tomsta said:

i have no idea about whether Acer products have actually gotten better over the years

SIT DOWN BOYO! I HAVE A TALE TO TELL (anyone who knows me since july/august knows i've been having headache with acer, took them 4 months to solve my case)

 

disclaimer: this is my personal experience so it's a sample size of one (1) and should be taken with a grain of salt

their lower end product still sucks, but the caveat is that no one offers the spec they're offering at the price they're offering at, so 

10 minutes ago, Tomsta said:

built to a budget and can be beaten by basically every brand out there

this isnt true, in my experience, as there are no other brand with competing product with the same spec at that price

but the fact that they promised and couldnt deliver is still true

and their technical support is laughable

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

In my experience over a similar time frame, Acer has always delivered a decent quality product for the price. Never had to deal with customer support, though...

[MarvintheParrot]

From what I have experienced nothing bad has ever really happened. A few years back, my school gave us chrome books form Acer and they worked great, as well as can be expected from a chrome book. I have also had experience with their monitors and nothing seemed off. The only thing that i would tell you away from is their lower end laptops. 

[Downkey]

24 minutes ago, Tomsta said:

Back when i was a young teenager (Over 10 years ago now, man i feel old) Acer products were known for being built to a budget rather than getting the best quality products in the price bracket they were aiming for. I have personally avoided Acer as a brand ever since then. With exception of their very high end products which do seem nice i have no idea about whether Acer products have actually gotten better over the years or whether they are still the same old song and dance of built to a budget and can be beaten by basically every brand out there

I’m upgrading to a laptop from my prebuilt from Acer with a 1050 and R5 1400, and it’s absolute garbage.

It has a terrible OEM motherboard, where the BIOS is horrible. The RAM is limited to 2133mhz.

The PSU is basement tier.

the airflow is garbage.

when playing some games the USB ports stop working and then the entire system crashes and I can’t turn it back on for an hour

No extra ports for an SSD (It takes over 2 minutes too boot)

 

I mean this system is 3 years old, and it was a budget prebuilt, but it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth