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I am way behind these days re: a good Laptop. I want to get one for my wife
with about a 14" screen, and not wishes to pay over $400.00.
Her needs are basically "Ebay" use and document saving/printing/pictues/letters.
My Acer has been a decent laptop but customer service does not exist and it is loaded full of bloatware. It took me two days just to remove riduculous programs I did not want.
I am way behind these days re: a good Laptop. I want to get one for my wife
with about a 14" screen, and not wishes to pay over $400.00.
Her needs are basically "Ebay" use and document saving/printing/pictues/letters.
I am very confused about brands/memory/etc.
Your help is appreciated.
HW
Honestly, for your needs you could go to Walmart.com and find a laptop for under 400 bucks that could more than adequately suit your needs.
I'm not joking......try them
The three Acer machines in our house were really easy to clean up when new. I removed McAfee AV, Norton online backup and MS Office trial, then loaded up all the free stuff from ninite.com and was finished the same day.
My Acer has been a decent laptop but customer service does not exist and it is loaded full of bloatware. It took me two days just to remove riduculous programs I did not want.
I will agree that Acer's customer service is not great and that their stuff has increased with bloatware.
Its pretty easy to remove Acer's bloatware in Add/Remove programs though. HP on the other hand is not so easy. They integrate some of their crap deeper which could cause you to restore the system.
I will say that the build quality of the Acer was far better than that of a Toshiba Satellite that I tried....Yes the programs were not integrated; it was just tedious to pull them off and I still had some shell type features (like energy management, etc.) that were redundant with windows features I really did not know waht to do.
Asus makes a lot of the motherboards other companies use, correct? That makes them an option in my book.
I will agree that Acer's customer service is not great and that their stuff has increased with bloatware.
Its pretty easy to remove Acer's bloatware in Add/Remove programs though. HP on the other hand is not so easy. They integrate some of their crap deeper which could cause you to restore the system.
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Originally Posted by grannynancy
I will say that the build quality of the Acer was far better than that of a Toshiba Satellite that I tried....Yes the programs were not integrated; it was just tedious to pull them off and I still had some shell type features (like energy management, etc.) that were redundant with windows features I really did not know waht to do.
Asus makes a lot of the motherboards other companies use, correct? That makes them an option in my book.
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