i want to buy new laptop which one is better acer or dell. acer is 2.0 GHZ and 160 GB. and Dell is 1.8GHZ and 80GB i wanted for my office and home use.and i liked Dell but not sure that 80 GB will be enough for office work.acer is 500 QR more than Dell.
The Dell is an excellent laptop, like Toyota is an excellent car, but when u get to the service part there's where you wish u never have bought it in the first place.
The service for dell here is so bad, they just find any way to make you pay eventhough your laptop is warranted.... Why sell it with warranty then if u need to pay a service charge of 800 riyals to replace and lcd on a laptop which is still under warranty?????
Guys!! there is a big misunderstanding. The Dell Inspiron Family of Laptop comes with Return to Base (1year - Parts only warranty). The Dell Latitude Family of Dell comes with onsite (3years) warranty. I am using a Dell Latitude D620 and it's a whole new world of professional service and experience. Dont blame on the Service Provider without getting to know clear service levels of Products when you purchase them. And about charges???? hmm think about TOYOTA. Got any idea about their service??? it's crap and damn expensive too.
I bought the Dell in the US, and after a while, it would just start shutting off, not running programs and various other problems. The worst part would be when I was in the middle of something it would just shut down and I would loose everything.
My husband is an computer engineer, and tried to fix it. Well, he said Dell has gone downhill with their quality and to go with Apple if you want a laptop that will last.
U get better performance in any other laptop, at a cheaper rate with better quality...
My cousin has a Qosmio, its 3 years old already, nothing failed to work excellently with it yet. The dells we get here, are nowhere the same as the ones u get in Canada for instance, we always get the leftovers here in the Arabian Gulf, and the XPS laptops are the best example. You don't go on buying stuff for a tiny label saying made in Ireland, i would rather have something made in India than a Dell.
basing from the specs you gave and the price, go for Acer. 2Ghz + 160 GB compare to 1.8GHz + 80 GB is a good bargain just for 500QR. but if the two PCs have the same specs, go for Dell for sure.
can anyone please tell me where i can find acer agents. i need to re-formatt my laptop n warranty's already expired could u tell me roughly how much it costs?. thanks heaps
DEll is Definitely the best. I dont agree with the bad service comment about COMPUTER ARABIA. ONc eyou buy a dell and take good care of it, it will give you the best Return on your Investment. GO FOR DELL>
I was always telling the people about that and no one would believe me. See in my school I got 5 Dell servers and the same implementation goes around most of the independent schools. I'm just wondering how do these people make such deals with the SEC while their services are bad as sending someone to deliver the server monitor and ask the school network admin to fix it himself? The poor guy asked for help, but i told him they paid them to fix everything .. so why? It took long time and they did not so we take it as fun and fix it :)
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is becoming the new Viao of best value laptops, just look at the new clamp aspire series, u will cry..., Dell seriously belongs in the trash, not because of its quality, it belongs in the trash here, just because of it's service center
The service here in Qatar for dell is repulsive, dont even think that your warranty would work with Computer Arabia, they will always find a way to charge u. Go for the acer, and inshallah it would be great, been running an acer almost 24/7 for the past 3 years (Centrino 2.0/1.5 GB RAM/120 HDD/Ati Radeon 9700 Pro) Aspire series. It never went to the service center yet. Also have a dell, bought it from carrefour with warranty and all, a month later, noting that i only used it 5 or 6 times, the screen doesn't light up, i got to computer arabia, and they say there is water in it!!! I was astound, i would know if water went into it, i used it 6 times, for a maximum time of 2 hours... Alas, they make me pay for service 450 QR, just for replacing the motherboard, and a week later i discover they put a very old model in, mine had a radeon vga, this has a digusting intel, and till now, im waiting for the motherboard to come, how stupid is computer arabia???? Go for an acer
No doubt Dell is better. Even though processor speed matters but with 1.8 GHZ, that should run smooth if you can maintain it properly. I saw computer with two processors with Terabyte of hard disk and still runs slow. One advice for sure, buy laptop with Warranty. Parts and labor is expensive for laptop. Check other features like wifi or infrared, SD slot, DVD burner and so on....
guys my pc usage is limited to the storing of patient data...loading photographs of xrays and...chatting on ql. i really dont need anything too powerful or fast....but lightweight is a must. even the ordinary lappie i find it cumbersome to carry and a 12 " screen is fine with me.so based on these requirements what do you guys suggest
More important than the Ghz clockspeed is the processor that is powering those two laptops.
I cannot believe that Dell is cheaper than Acer. Dell products are much highly rated than Acer for sure. Even though the above configuration given of Acer is higher than Dell's, I still think a lower configuration laptop would be of same prices as that of an Acer. Please ensure that you are buying the laptop with latest processor, i.e. Intel Pentium Core "2" Duo.
you will find that one and cheaper than Vaio and even better.
If you want to choose between those two, ... go for Dell .. Acer have endless issues and as the guys say ... in the bottom line comes the overheating problem.
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The Dell is an excellent laptop, like Toyota is an excellent car, but when u get to the service part there's where you wish u never have bought it in the first place.
The service for dell here is so bad, they just find any way to make you pay eventhough your laptop is warranted.... Why sell it with warranty then if u need to pay a service charge of 800 riyals to replace and lcd on a laptop which is still under warranty?????
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Guys!! there is a big misunderstanding. The Dell Inspiron Family of Laptop comes with Return to Base (1year - Parts only warranty). The Dell Latitude Family of Dell comes with onsite (3years) warranty. I am using a Dell Latitude D620 and it's a whole new world of professional service and experience. Dont blame on the Service Provider without getting to know clear service levels of Products when you purchase them. And about charges???? hmm think about TOYOTA. Got any idea about their service??? it's crap and damn expensive too.
I bought the Dell in the US, and after a while, it would just start shutting off, not running programs and various other problems. The worst part would be when I was in the middle of something it would just shut down and I would loose everything.
My husband is an computer engineer, and tried to fix it. Well, he said Dell has gone downhill with their quality and to go with Apple if you want a laptop that will last.
tra la la
U get better performance in any other laptop, at a cheaper rate with better quality...
My cousin has a Qosmio, its 3 years old already, nothing failed to work excellently with it yet. The dells we get here, are nowhere the same as the ones u get in Canada for instance, we always get the leftovers here in the Arabian Gulf, and the XPS laptops are the best example. You don't go on buying stuff for a tiny label saying made in Ireland, i would rather have something made in India than a Dell.
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whats wrong wit xps?
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I had a dell XPS.... never again!
tra la la
i recently bought DELL XPS
its cool and bttr thn acer
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hahahahaha jasskat... i agree with you completely...
both my dell laptops have also failed on me... so instead of buying a new one i decided to go with a used gateway...
but i will be buying an apple for production work later... APPLE FTMFW
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I just went through two Dell laptops, very high quality ones and expensive too. Well, they broke and now I have moved on to Apple.
I would say not to buy Dell, but I am a little biased cause I had two that broke.
tra la la
basing from the specs you gave and the price, go for Acer. 2Ghz + 160 GB compare to 1.8GHz + 80 GB is a good bargain just for 500QR. but if the two PCs have the same specs, go for Dell for sure.
with so much pros and cons going on here about dell and acer...... I settled with HP..... just bought 2 days ago...:)
you don't have your installation CDs with you? Or stored on the secured partition of your hard disk? Installing windows XP again is a piece of cake :)
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can anyone please tell me where i can find acer agents. i need to re-formatt my laptop n warranty's already expired could u tell me roughly how much it costs?. thanks heaps
I know....Pls dont think i just like acers...
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Go for an unbranded laptop, and dont go for Dell, Service here is awful, the pc is good (nothing wrong about it) just the service.... its so......
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DEll is Definitely the best. I dont agree with the bad service comment about COMPUTER ARABIA. ONc eyou buy a dell and take good care of it, it will give you the best Return on your Investment. GO FOR DELL>
I have the same dilemma..... now I wonder, where are the DELL-defenders now????
I was always telling the people about that and no one would believe me. See in my school I got 5 Dell servers and the same implementation goes around most of the independent schools. I'm just wondering how do these people make such deals with the SEC while their services are bad as sending someone to deliver the server monitor and ask the school network admin to fix it himself? The poor guy asked for help, but i told him they paid them to fix everything .. so why? It took long time and they did not so we take it as fun and fix it :)
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. (Gautama Buddha)
If the mother company knew what Computer Arabia is doing here, it will just take its license back before the manager can say inspiron...
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yah, DELL has stupid warranty service thing. they will charge you for simple things.
(but if you know how to fix your computer, then go for DELL. but i hope u really know..hehehe)
so what u prefer? DELL or ACER?
DELL - good laptop, bad service center, easily broken then you pay, .
damn!
ACER - just read "mx1o0o" post.. :)
is becoming the new Viao of best value laptops, just look at the new clamp aspire series, u will cry..., Dell seriously belongs in the trash, not because of its quality, it belongs in the trash here, just because of it's service center
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The service here in Qatar for dell is repulsive, dont even think that your warranty would work with Computer Arabia, they will always find a way to charge u. Go for the acer, and inshallah it would be great, been running an acer almost 24/7 for the past 3 years (Centrino 2.0/1.5 GB RAM/120 HDD/Ati Radeon 9700 Pro) Aspire series. It never went to the service center yet. Also have a dell, bought it from carrefour with warranty and all, a month later, noting that i only used it 5 or 6 times, the screen doesn't light up, i got to computer arabia, and they say there is water in it!!! I was astound, i would know if water went into it, i used it 6 times, for a maximum time of 2 hours... Alas, they make me pay for service 450 QR, just for replacing the motherboard, and a week later i discover they put a very old model in, mine had a radeon vga, this has a digusting intel, and till now, im waiting for the motherboard to come, how stupid is computer arabia???? Go for an acer
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Right said bro! We've been so used to following up Intel with word Pentium that invariable it comes out even if you don't want it to.:P
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No doubt Dell is better. Even though processor speed matters but with 1.8 GHZ, that should run smooth if you can maintain it properly. I saw computer with two processors with Terabyte of hard disk and still runs slow. One advice for sure, buy laptop with Warranty. Parts and labor is expensive for laptop. Check other features like wifi or infrared, SD slot, DVD burner and so on....
a lil correction...
Its Intel Core 2 Duo
Pentium is out... ;)
The above dell models which i wrote are light weight contenders
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
guys my pc usage is limited to the storing of patient data...loading photographs of xrays and...chatting on ql. i really dont need anything too powerful or fast....but lightweight is a must. even the ordinary lappie i find it cumbersome to carry and a 12 " screen is fine with me.so based on these requirements what do you guys suggest
do it right - the first time!
DELL IS BEST
dell X300, DellX1 and dellD420 these are light weight
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
More important than the Ghz clockspeed is the processor that is powering those two laptops.
I cannot believe that Dell is cheaper than Acer. Dell products are much highly rated than Acer for sure. Even though the above configuration given of Acer is higher than Dell's, I still think a lower configuration laptop would be of same prices as that of an Acer. Please ensure that you are buying the laptop with latest processor, i.e. Intel Pentium Core "2" Duo.
Anyday go for a Dell.
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you will find that one and cheaper than Vaio and even better.
If you want to choose between those two, ... go for Dell .. Acer have endless issues and as the guys say ... in the bottom line comes the overheating problem.
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guys im looking for the most lightweight laptop with a 12" screen?
anything less expensive than a sony vaio?
do it right - the first time!
Dell is good as senti said acer becomes hot and gets stuck
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
DELLLLL... no to ACER...
I prefer u Dell.Acer will become hot very soon
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