Acer Aspire X1700-U3700A

dcal · February 17, 2009, 12:57:29 PM

Hey all, it's been a while since I posted around here. So anyway, I'm possibly in the market for a new computer. I'm done gaming on PCs, and I have a laptop issued from work for working/portability. I was looking into the slim line desktops offered by the PC three (Dell, HP, Gateway). I then came across this one. All I really need it to do is run Photoshop, host music that I share to my XBOX360, surf the web, and minor miscellaneous other tasks.

Acer Aspire X1700-U3700A

Anyone have any experience with it? Good, bad, ugly? Other recommendations?

mitt · February 17, 2009, 02:09:26 PM

Only advice is to wait <12 months for windows 7 instead of vista?

mitt

derby · February 17, 2009, 02:45:47 PM

Quote from: mitt on February 17, 2009, 02:09:26 PM
Only advice is to wait <12 months for windows 7 instead of vista?

mitt

microsoft is reportedly going to give vista users a free license for win7.

dcal · February 17, 2009, 03:16:07 PM

Quote from: derby on February 17, 2009, 02:45:47 PM
microsoft is reportedly going to give vista users a free license for win7.

This would be cool. Any idea how accurate that report would be?

Mitt, I had considered that. I wasn't sure how far away it was.

derby · February 17, 2009, 03:58:38 PM

Quote from: dcal on February 17, 2009, 03:16:07 PM

This would be cool. Any idea how accurate that report would be?

you decide: http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=609&pgno=0

dcal · February 17, 2009, 04:11:39 PM

Sweet. I had originally just read some articles by people who wanted a cheap upgrade. I had no idea MS was officially entertaining that idea. Sounds pretty likely.

Smart move IMHO.

dcal · February 17, 2009, 04:15:24 PM

Back on topic.

I figure with the Acer Aspire I'd be getting comparable quality with the usual suspects at a slightly discounted price. I can't imagine Acer's budget parts being of any different quality than the crap HP/Dell/Compaq/etc. throw in their boxes. So apart from building my own, which will get expensive, I'm of the mind it doesn't matter who you get it from. Thoughts?

ZLTFUL · February 17, 2009, 04:58:00 PM

I have owned 2 Acer laptops and currently own an Acer LCD monitor. All of them have been very good t ome and have never left me wanting for something different.
As for components, that's one of the great things about the laptop market...about 75% of the parts for them are made by only a couple of companies so it is not uncommon to find the same parts in differing brands.

A side note on Dell "quality"...they buy highly binned CPUs(better) from Intel but then they stuff them into mediocre boards, with budget RAM, "generic" optical drives, and quality hard drives. All the while stuffing total shit for video cards in there and calling them upgrades.

mitt · February 17, 2009, 06:14:27 PM

+1 on an acer lcd monitor. So far so good.

mitt

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