I know that, but they are still separate mostly.
Heheh. It's cool. I was just picking on yah in a friendly way.
I, honestly find this entire thread to be amusing because everyone seems to base their opinion on their individual experience. Computers are so fickle in general that sometimes you win sometimes you lose. Heck, 80 percent of the time computer problems are software/config issues that aren't even related to the construction quality of the machine.
Customers bring computers into our tech dept all the time complaining that the computer is "a piece of crap" because it runs slow. But, usually, they are idiots that are running 10 Explorer windows of Flash based Pron with only 1 gig of RAM while trying to multitask a billion other things.
On the subject of hardware failures, our number one repair request is hard drives. And even though your computer can be an Acer, HP, Compaq, Gateway, whatever... it is still going to most likely have a drive made by Toshiba, Hitachi, Western Digital, etc etc. Most of these computer companies use the same drives by the same manufacturers.
The other common failure is Power Supplies. And this is why I don't favor Dell because their power supplies (Laptop and Desktop) are usually proprietary and have to be replaced directly through them. Proprietary construction methods = headache when you want to repair the machine yourself (boooo Dell and Sony)
It is a mixed bag. My Acer desktop has been good to me, but the Acer laptop that I sold my neighbor just broke last week. (video ribbon cable is coming loose, resulting in a finicky screen when opened) My friends brand new Dell barfed a hard drive after only 4 months of use. They sent a tech out to replace it, but it was still disappointing. My Apple laptop is 12 years old and works fine for what I use it. The only thing wrong with it, is the daughtercard fried and it wont charge the battery anymore. But I just use it on my desk, so I don't care. I have an old Dell desktop that runs strong and happy, but my folks Dell laptop has been giving them trouble since day one.
So, really, at this point Naryar. All I can say is: "Don't buy a brand you have never even heard of." :P
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