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Originally Posted by NatTelford
Cheers chaps! i did spot the Acer to be honest but im not sure in terms of the reputation. We have had a couple of tablet machines at work go wrong a few times and its very rare they come back from repair in the time they are meant to. Whats the general opinion of Acer around here?
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TBH (I posted that Acer link), I'm not too sure about Acer. I've only got the one laptop (Aspire 1520) I've had off them to go on BUT in two years:
1. Fan died. It had to go back to the shop.
2. HDD died. Got a replacement from a local shop.
The HD incident got me looking at the HD temps, and unless I apply compressed air very frequently (every couple of weeks), it will easily climb to 50 Celcius on an almost idle CPU (but streaming audio, which will keep the HD busy). Defrag or Virus Scan will push it close to 55 which is the max rated temp for your average HD. I'm not sure if this is normal for lappies, but I do wonder about the design of this one. It only seems to care about CPU temps.
Then again, that laptop I linked to does look a good spec at that price.
