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Originally Posted by frahse
Speaking of Acer. I have long avoided them too, from the days when they were just a cheap product at Circuit City.
But, yesterday, my wife got her Acer C7 (4GB RAM, 320GB HDD) Chromebook from Amazon for $219, and I must say she is impressed. Me too.
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Acer -and Asus the same in my opinion- usually is offering a great cost-benefit ratio.
If one wants to stick to a certain budget, they often are the best choice.
I had bought the Asus VivoTab Smart Windows 8 Pro tablet.
Similar specs as my Dell Latitude 10 (with the exception of Latitude 10's security options), but for half the price! And it did perform surprisingly well.
But "the devil's in the detail", as we say in Germany.
I sold it, because some annoying details killed all the fun for me, for example the proprietary update process, which stops working after the very first reset (hundreds of threads about that).
My simple experience: Savings usually come for a price. Even the price reduction for Microsoft Surface RT for example: You get it for a great price. But you get a product, that's almost one year old and simply isn't very successful (and even an uncertain future for the entire OS)...
I've had buyer's remorse way too often with presumed "bargain buys", to actively look for them.
I'd rather have a tablet for € 1.000 (Latitude 10, Surface Pro), that's working great and feels valuable, than a tablet for half the price with some flaws.
When using it, I don't see the savings anymore I've had 6 months before. I just see what annoys me about it.
I stuck with Asus VivoTab Smart for a few months. But eventually, after finding hundreds of reports similar to my problem and no reaction from Asus at all, I sold it. I very rarely do that. But in this case, all the fun was gone for me - bargain price or not...