Postby acesinghit » November 22nd, 2009, 2:40 pm
family has 4 laptops....2 Acer Aspire's, 1 Lenovo 3000 and a Toshiba Satellite.
first Acer purchased in September 2006 then the other Acer purchased in September 2007. The Lenovo was purchased in August 2007 and the Toshiba in March 2009.
All are still in original condition and are used for hours everyday. They are always on the net and the Acer's being the oldest nothing ever changed except the RAM. The first Aspire came with 512MB and we upgraded it to 2GB and it runs XP very fast. Likewise we upgraded the 2nd Acer with 4GB of RAM and it runs Vista the way it should have been in the first place. The Lenovo was similarly upgraded like the 2nd Acer as well as the Toshiba.
The quality of the casing, knobs/buttons and keys remains new up to this day and the screens are still trouble free. No lines or dots. The Acer's have superior wifi reception over the Lenovo and Toshiba by far. The screen quality is the best in the Toshiba though and all have poor battery life IMHO as they don't last long but its not like we seriously need to change the batteries as wherever we go there are power sockets so we just keep it plugged. All optical drives work as intended. Only the Toshiba lacks a microphone but the others still pickup voice clearly and only the 2nd Acer has a camera which has excellent quality.
All hard drives run great and please note the Lenovo we have is not the IBM Thinkpad derived laptop its the true Chinese Lenovo 3000 nothing to do with IBM or Thinkpad series laptops and no complaints!!!
I have friends with newer Dells and HP's that failed in numerous ways thus far as opposed to the 'oldish' ones we have. Our previous laptop was a Compaq Presario 1200 which lasted 4 years then gave up and Prior to that we had a Digital DEC PC 325SL with Windows 3.1, 25MHz Intel 386 and 25MB HD and that lasted for 6 years.
I suppose its how you treat your laptop but seeing Digital and Compaq are now absorbed into HP, it seems their specialty is printers now and not laptops like before.
For now, Acer, Lenovo and Toshiba FTW.