April 25, 2008: Acer is crap
I must apologize for not updating in many days. The only excuse I can think of is that my laptop is a complete joke and never works properly. Here is a picture of my Acer on a typical day.
Ignoring the childish warning screen for a moment, take one look at that keyboard. In their lunacy, Acer decided to include two separate euro keys, one of which is somehow crammed into the 5 key. How the hell do you even access that? I tried every possible combination of alt/shift/Fn/ctrl keys, and then I tried slamming my fist onto the 5 key as hard as I could, but nothing happened. I now believe it’s not a “5/euro” key at all, but a “5 euro” key—useful for when you need to express that something costs 5 euros. That’s probably the average hourly wage of the morons working at Acer.
What’s interesting about the euro key over by the arrows is that it’s literally not mapped to anything, and neither is the nearby dollar key. Basically I have two euro keys and neither of them work. I guess I have to map them myself? I probably should have built the entire laptop myself.
The first thing that went was the Acer’s ability to sleep and hibernate. It has to be awake at all times or else it freezes, like some sort of reverse bear. You can close the lid without powering down, but it’s not a smart idea because you’ll just crash the system. My laptop was not designed for such taxing activities as closing the lid. These early warning signs began to occur prior to the warranty’s expiration, so I guess I could have shipped it off to Acer to be fixed. But I didn’t really want to be without my laptop for 2 months while they wiped out my hard drive, and furthermore I didn’t exactly trust the same geniuses who designed my laptop to fix it. Also, I naively assumed that some of my issues might have been software related.
After my warranty expired this past February, that was my laptop’s cue to really begin falling apart in earnest. Increasingly it stopped booting successfully. What it usually does after you power it on is it emits three piercing beeps and then you’re treated to the douche chill screen shown in the above photo. One of my favorite hobbies is to browse the internet for a solution to this problem, but the consensus seems to be that it’s due to a faulty mainboard. A good temporary solution I’ve found is that when the laptop starts beeping at me, I beat the shit out of it and try to restart. After much experience in hitting my laptop, experimentally varying the intensity and placement of my wallops, I’ve determined that if I apply steady pressure to the area just to the left of the touchpad, it will actually boot up with no problems. The only problem is that I usually have to continue to exert this pressure throughout my laptop use, or else the system will lock up or I’ll lose my wireless signal. Sometimes I actually have to operate my laptop with a dictionary balanced on the left side, which is not exactly the portable solution I envisioned when I purchased my laptop.
Of course, my Acer isn’t really a laptop anymore. The mere idea of placing this device on my lap is cause for laugher. I’m well aware that any subtle movement of my legs would create far too much commotion for my machine’s brittle constitution. In general, physically moving my laptop in any way once it has successfully powered on is asking for trouble. At best the wireless functionally will be disrupted, and you’ll have to manually reconnect to the network, but most often you’re just going to lock up the machine—and it serves you right for attempting to adjust the position of your laptop. Laptops were not designed to be carelessly placed on top of your lap.
I’ve opened my machine up numerous times to make sure everything was cleaned and properly in place, but to be honest I don’t know the purpose of most of that circuitry anymore than the retards over at Acer. Eventually I’m going to have to just replace the machine entirely—I haven’t even mentioned the inch-wide band of scrambled lines that occasionally appears on the rightmost side of my monitor. Needless to say, I would never again purchase a computer product made by Asser. They should switch to an industry in which the excel: making hilarious practical jokes.
stoney wrote:
Not to offend you, but how the hell cheap was the sale that influenced you to even BUY an Acer in the first place? You can buy those POS in a bulk pack of 25 for the price of 1 Dell computer… and those aren’t much better!
Posted on 26-Apr-08 at 1:39 am | Permalink
Ueli wrote:
Allegedly, you use the /right/ Alt key in conjunction with the 5 to type a euro. I can’t test this myself, as the left Alt key on my Acer fell off long ago and the right one stopped working when I had to roll back my keyboard driver. So yes, Acer is quite definitely crap.
Posted on 26-Apr-08 at 8:19 am | Permalink
erick wrote:
i love this man.
Posted on 26-Apr-08 at 12:48 pm | Permalink
erika wrote:
awkwardly, i’ve had the same acer laptop for 6 years and its still beautiful. gross eh. never had one problem with it. And I quite like the two Euro keys. Because I frequently like to just type to the Euro symbol, but I hate touching the same key over and over again. PROBLEM SOLVED BY ACER DESPITE BEST EFFORTS TO LOOK LIKE DOUCHES
Posted on 26-Apr-08 at 3:41 pm | Permalink
Margaret Britowski wrote:
Whoa whoa whoa whoa. Hold on a second here. You’re stating that you have a shitty laptop, correct? Well you better hold on to your freaking hat, because I’m about to blow away your acer laptop with the fury of a thousand flames.
1. After about 20-30 minutes my computer over heats and the thing shuts down. This is good if you want to cook a meal while you surf the net, I suppose, but that’s usually not one of my priorities when I’m trying to do my homework. I have to carry what my friends call “frozen-pea life support” with me, which is a part of my infamous laptop care kit. I’ve gotten odd looks from the people who run the local internet cafe when I ask them if they could please put my sack of expired meat in the freezer for an hour or two so I can finish my homework.
2. Should I forget my laptop care kit, battery life lasts about 40 minutes. That doesn’t really matter, though, because if I forgot my laptop care kit than I forgot the frozen ham package that I hold so near and dear, and my laptop will over heat at least 10 minutes before it dies or battery failure.
3. Stains and cracks. Ever since about three years ago, my desktop computer died, my laptop has become the family computer (just as well, I suppose, with the old one having a gig of memory and half a gig of RAM). There are food stains all over my laptop, which wouldn’t be so bad if it was just aesthetic difficulties. With the laptop over heating the food burns and decomposes, causing the spread of biological and chemical warfare in the house. The stains from where wrists rest are dark, and when you turn it upside-down it looks like an happy robot with missing teeth.
4. I’m missing the “L” key and the “Shift” key from my keyboard, crumbs from my mother’s food have gotten lodged under the keys and managed to pry those ones loose.
5. When my dad and mother did up the family budget, apparently an internet connection wasn’t a one of those important things. So I walk around town, trying desperately to grab a signal while freezing my hand off from holding up the ham packet.
People often wonder why I wear UFO parachute pants. It’s because it’s the most viable transportation option for my laptop care kit. It contains:
-Two power cords that occasionally work (my rabbit thought the cords would taste like carrots, I suppose)
-A package of frozen ham or vegetables, or some other form of meat.
-A teddy bear that I clutch in the corner when my laptop fails the second before I save the final draft of my essay with that kick ass conclusion sentence that I can’t remember now.
So, good sir, when the gods of the internet are reading your kick ass website, I will be the one to get a kick ass computer for Christmas. But then again, if they’re internet gods, then I doubt they would read comments, because no one with half a brain reads these things.
Posted on 27-Apr-08 at 10:22 am | Permalink
rc5 wrote:
^ I read all the comments. D=
Jeez Margaret, I thought we were friends.
Posted on 29-Apr-08 at 5:20 pm | Permalink
wickensworth wrote:
Stoney: It wasn’t even that much cheaper. I bought my laptop after about four minutes of research on Newegg.com. I guess I’m the asshole now.
Ueli: Nope, I already tried that 30 times. Maybe that’s supposed to work, but it doesn’t.
Posted on 02-May-08 at 9:31 pm | Permalink
ruaha wrote:
MacBook.
Throw that fuckah down the stairs, and it’ll still generate six-dimensional hypermodels of new molecules, while letting you jack your brain into the pan-neural network of your choice.
“No one with half a brain reads these things.”
I have at least two.
Posted on 17-May-08 at 3:01 pm | Permalink
Alison wrote:
Seriously. MacBook. (or MacBook Pro if you’ve got the €€€). Who has ever regretted getting a Mac? No one.
(And yeah, I know we aren’t european here, but I wanted to show off my euro sign, that while not standard on the keyboard, takes about 2 seconds to insert, even less if I took the time to make a shortcut for it, which is also insanely easy because Macs are made so that even 2-year-olds and people with botched lobotomies have no problems utilizing all of their functions.)
Posted on 19-May-08 at 8:48 am | Permalink
Liam wrote:
You have two €? But no £?
Posted on 25-May-08 at 11:09 am | Permalink
Stephany wrote:
I hate Acer. I have the same exact computer and it sucks.
Posted on 29-May-08 at 10:36 pm | Permalink
kegan wrote:
i have an acer laptop :-< oh btw it ctrl
alt 5
Posted on 25-Jun-08 at 4:31 pm | Permalink
RB wrote:
ROFL - The area just left of the mouse pad is the hard drive! I know what you mean, my Acer is an absolute piece of shit which has crashed after only a few years. They’re basically disposable. You wrote this 3 years ago so I highly doubt (and hope for you) that you still have this pile of junk, but to get that 5 Euro sign to work you press the blue key “Fe” or whatever to the right of control and then the 5. So “Fe”+5. I was very pissed with mine all the time and gave it a good smack on a regular basis. I supposedly got a deal after paying nearly $1200 for it - It lasted less than 3 years!
Posted on 17-Jul-08 at 4:13 am | Permalink
RB wrote:
Oops, never mind - I thought it said this was written in 2005. Still hilarious though. Yes I suggest an IBM/Lenovo laptop. They’re expensive yes, but it is worth it. Look on eBay for a good deal!
Posted on 17-Jul-08 at 4:17 am | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
ACER IS TRUELY CRAP! AFTER SALES SERVICE IS A JOKE AND A HALF
Posted on 26-Aug-08 at 12:01 pm | Permalink
lolasjem wrote:
wow…..so I am not the only luddite on the planet…..bought this laptop because my MAC was worn out and busted and the Acer cost about as much as it was going to cost to fix the old MAC….new battery, new power cord adapter, removing a stuck cd etc. Well I should have known better…..
First off they ripped me off at the Source…closest place to get a laptop and I was desperate….didn’t receive all the goodies as promised, so BAD service from the store. Only part of the rebates came…false advertising! After only having the laptop for about a month I couldn’t get it to power up. It needed about a month vacation before it would work again. Then the trial versions expired which threw the computer into more hissy fits and made it unuseable till it settled down again. Then on May 11th the CD/DVD driver somehow erased itself while I was playing a CD…..not to be found anywhere by a technician…..Like the author of this article, I can’t be with out a computer while they fix it….so I continue to moan and suffer…then there is the problem of the dancing curser…..it randomly jumps all over the screen….or the NO ACTION stuck mode ball…on MAC, the disco ball…..Wordperfect with Vista…hasn’t WP been obsolette since about ‘98? POS to say the least….My new MAC will be coming home soon.
Thanks for the rant and it is good to know that I am not alone with these computer problems.
LJ
Posted on 27-Aug-08 at 1:36 pm | Permalink
Steve wrote:
well…I made a mistake and wiped the HD of my daughters Acer Aspire 5630 after months of growing problems…turning itself off with no warning..loosing her schoolwork. Not even a blue screen of DEATH….nothing. Machine would just DIE. So decided to start from scratch. Has anyone tried downloading drivers from the Acer web sit. jeez… You have to select the driver you want twice befor it’ll download. Then, normally the file is corrupt!. Tried this on three different computers. So its not just their hardware that sucks…they’ve turned it into a way of LIFE!!!
Posted on 15-Oct-08 at 1:33 pm | Permalink
Alyssa wrote:
My sister just got one, I tried to warn them not to…then I just got this-
E rin x3×2 (7:58:01 PM): look at this weird key on this computer
E rin x3×2 (7:58:02 PM): €
E rin x3×2 (7:58:11 PM): its an actual key
ha.
Posted on 29-Oct-08 at 8:00 pm | Permalink
Greg wrote:
You are correct.. I paid up for my Acer 9300 just for the built in 10 key numeric.. It takes 15 minutes to boot. biggest piece of shit I have ever owned. NEVER again.. What makes it worse is VISTA . GGGGGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Posted on 07-Dec-08 at 9:51 pm | Permalink
Othello wrote:
I had grown quite convinced that my Acer was possessed of some form of superior intelligence which allowed it to plot against my every intention, with incomparable sluggishness, a tendency to shut itself down for no apparent reason and general refusal to save anything. Now I see that it cannot even be credited with this, and that the whole Acer race is one imbued with a hatred of humanity so deep that nothing will stop them in their machinations so pernicious as to be Shakespearean.
In addition, the stupid thing refuses to die! However much I hit it, however much tea/gin I spill all over it, it just continues on its own happy little course with an enviable oblivion. Motiveless malignity, said Coleridge of Iago, so say I of Acer.
Posted on 10-Dec-08 at 1:28 pm | Permalink
Deiseboy wrote:
On my Acer Aspire there is a key called Alt Gr (which I think means Alt Ground) and you press this with the 4 key to type the euro symbol.
My plain € key used to work but has stopped now, no idea why.
Posted on 15-Dec-08 at 2:57 pm | Permalink
Milly wrote:
Othello, after reading your comment on the “Acer is Crap” post, can we pay you to fill in for Eric? You’re hilarious.
Posted on 17-Dec-08 at 6:58 pm | Permalink
Duffy wrote:
I have the same model 5102. It’s been refusing to boot for a while now on and off. Now all of a sudden it wont find the cdrom or the hard drive. So I seen me arse wiv it and it’s in about 10 peices now. LOL!!! Never buying another acer product again.
Posted on 30-Dec-08 at 8:36 am | Permalink
Richie wrote:
Acer are crap, Crap Support, Crap Parts, Monkeys put together the laptops in a factory.
If you try the Tech Support you get re-directed in a continual loop for hours until the 1 actual person they have on the call centre will help you.
Turns out too be an indian with a HNC in Convinience store till systems.
The Driver page is no help since Acer don’t even know how to setup a FTP properly too host there drivers.
Not only do they release the same model of laptop 3 times, they tend too be re-badged and butchered other cheap ass laptops.
So if you’re lucky enough to loose your driver disc or Recovery disc, good luck to you. I can think of only one other machine which has single handedly had more problems than this Acer 3690 peice of crap.
And thats my Xbox 360, And least i can repair that by removing stupid design flaws.
Posted on 02-Jan-09 at 11:53 am | Permalink
catnipcraze wrote:
Hi,
Just called acer customer service about the euro sign. they said you have to have an app called “launch manager” installed to be able to use that function. (wack huh?)
Problem is even after re-installing this app (i uninstalled it without giving extra look when i first got the machine, thought its just another corporate bloatware) the euro sign still DOESN’T WORK AT ALL!!!
totally agree with a previous post, “you got 2 euro signs, but no pound sign?” LOL absolutely, i so regret to get acer crap, well too late to regret, never had an issue like that with dell, acer is truly crap, avoid it like hell!!!
Posted on 12-Jan-09 at 2:59 am | Permalink
Rumen wrote:
Hi there!
I somehow managed to find this site by typing “Acer aspire laptops crap” on Google:) Well, I can tell you 100% that this brand is a complete and utter bullsh*t. I bought Acer Aspire 5670 like 2 years ago. It was the very first one to feature the new Centrino Duo platform. It was my first laptop, so I didn’t know anything about the brands. I just thought that the more powerful and the cheaper, the better it is. Hell NO! After a good research I found out that Acer was offering the best! system spec/price ratio out there. It even featured a dedicated Ati video card compared to the plethora of integrated Intel chips out there.
Well, I bought it. It was my biggest mistake ever. I forked out like 1400$ for a machine that cost half this value after just 4 months.
And the problems started:
1.It overheats A LOT. It’s impossible to keep it over your your lap or you are risking to fry your nuts. And it hangs due to the bloody overheating.
2.The integrated speakers are utter crap.
3.The chinese shitty laptop fan is a complete joke. After like 1 year of use it started to make a disgusting grinding noise that can make your ears bleed. And it is supposed to have 3+ years of use. Recently the fan completely stopped. I thought it was just stuffed with dust and tried to clean it. It worked for a while.
One day after coming back home, I sat to watch some movie on my laptop. To my surpise the fan didn’t start at all and my system was shutting down after 15 mins of running.i was so mad that time that i just removed the pack plate, ripped off the faulty fan and threw it away in the trash. I was absolutely shocked when i found out that thius particular fan for my particular laptop model acer aspire 5670-5672 was terminated from production. The damn chinese messed it up from the baginig and now I am completely screwed up. I searched all the online retailers and everywhere this damn part was sold out. I had to dig out this shitty fan out of the trash!!! (OMG!) cuz I needed its plastic enclosure. So finally I managed to glue another smaller laptop fan from another model to the enclosure and actually fit the damn thing back in place.
Another horror story: I had freezing and shuttig down as well. The system just locked up after starting or just durig the boot time. It tured out that it was the wifi Intel driver that caused the problem. I had to remove the program and istalled just the drivers and allowed Windows to handle the wifi. The issue was fixed.
The hilarious thing is that your problems were very similar to mine:) When rebooted, the acer just gave me 2 beeps, the dvd activated itself every time and then just a black screen. This whole garbage was so meaningless to me any more that i decide to smack it till it actually worked or just break it down and throw it out once and for all. I think after the good beating the lappy will make some more months LOL:)
MY ADVICE: Stay away from Acer and its cheap laptops cause sooner or later the hell will break loose and the crap will poor on you from everywhere.
I am just waitig for Intel to release Calpella this year and I am getting a new laptop. The goddamned Acer is going right to the city garbage can forever. Now, after all the horror when I see a Ferrari or some Acer product somewhere I am gettig a headache.
Posted on 20-Jan-09 at 7:18 am | Permalink
Rumen wrote:
Sorry for the great amount of typos…
Posted on 20-Jan-09 at 7:36 am | Permalink
Dave wrote:
I agree. Acer laptops have the worst build quality I have ever seen. The keyboard on my machine was faulty from birth. I contacted them and, at two weeks old, they offered to repair it for me for a fee. I tried to take it back to the retailer but they didn’t want to know. I am now taking legal action in order to get rid of this load of crap. Do not buy an Acer computer.
Posted on 29-Jan-09 at 8:57 pm | Permalink
Michael wrote:
I have an Acer too, in fact, an Aspire 5100 series, the same as in the picture (but probably a different model, mine’s the 5840). It’s 1.5 years old now, and so far the only problem I’ve had is that the webcam stopped working. At first I thought it was a software problem, but after reinstalling Vista twice, I discovered that it was a hardware problem. It’s one of those webcams that spins around so you can face it towards you or out away from you, but the spinning part was built cheaply and one side is now loose, which probably caused the problem. It still works, but there’s many lines going across the picture. But, I rarely use the webcam so its not a big deal. I decided not to send it in for warranty repair because of the cost of shipping and the fear that they would mess up something else at the center or in shipping. Other than that, I haven’t had any problems so far (knock on wood!). It would be nice if it would last another 2.5 years to get me through college, but I’m doubting it after reading these posts. I believe my hard drive might be starting to fail, since it randomly shut down on me twice over the last two months. Thankfully, I have most of my stuff backed up on an external HD, and I guess a hard drive problem can’t be blamed on Acer. Maybe I can convince WD to replace it when/if it goes, since it’s an OEM drive and should have a 3 year warranty? We’ll have to wait and see, I guess. At least I know enough about computers that I can replace the motherboard if it goes (since it seems like a common problem for these), and they’re pretty cheap on ebay. I’ve done it once before for another laptop (a Gateway with a snapped-off power connector), and it’s not the most fun thing to do, there’s so many tiny screws. When this finally goes, I’ll have to seriously consider a Mac. They’re pretty expensive, but it’s worth it thanks to the quality and reliablity. Maybe I can get a good used MacBook Pro for a fairly low price.
Posted on 04-Feb-09 at 12:36 am | Permalink
alex wrote:
Hi man, just like to say that I recently spent £1500 on an acer aspire 4GRAM laptop. This machine is apparantly capable of running the most powerful software but crashed when I tried loading basic cubase software. Ever since the laptop crashes, swithes on and off and I smell burning now when it is on for over an hour. I spoke to Acer tech support and the guy (who couldn’t speak english!) suggested that I turn it off and wait ten minutes before switching it on.!!!! LOL I no use it for cricket.
Posted on 16-Feb-09 at 12:48 pm | Permalink
Shauna wrote:
Holy Crap Margaret Britowski you are my new current heroine! I cried from laughing about your frozen care kit. The ham is what really did it to me. You’re totally right by the way; I wouldn’t be on this forum (not knocking the forum only myself) if I knew how the hell to fix the fan. So far the monitor doesn’t work and we have a dinosaur monitor hooked up to it and the fan dies so we have a cooling pad underneath. It runs so slow. I admire your bravery to walk around with frozen meat. Anyway, good luck to you all.
Posted on 26-Feb-09 at 11:09 pm | Permalink
Michael wrote:
Hey guys. I’ve read about a solution that will work for the infamous disk error message that seems to occur on the Acer Aspire 5100, and possibly other models. According to what I’ve read, it’s the same problem that causes an Xbox 360 to get the “Red Ring of Death.” There’s a cold solder joint on the motherboard in the area of the HD that eventually gets loose from many hot-cool cycles, leading to the disk error message. The author of this blog mentioned that pushing down on the left palmrest (left of the touchpad) will fix this problem. That’s because you’re putting pressure on the joint in the motherboard, reconnecting whatever’s become loose. A permanent way to fix this problem is to take a heavy-duty piece of rubber, that can withstand high heat, and cut it so that it’s just thick enough to fit between the HD and the ATI chip on the motherboard (where the cold solder joint is under) and put pressure on this chip when everything’s closed. This pressure is enough for a long-term solution to the problem.
Oh, and for Margaret and other people having cooling problems, unless the fan is actually broken, the laptop is usually overheating because there’s dust, hair, and/or other things caught in the heatsink and fan, preventing the cooling system from functioning very efficiently. Open it up (usually through the compartment on the underneath), get some compressed air, and blow all of that stuff out, and it should be like new. If you can’t open your laptop for some reason, you can still blow air in through the vents on the outside to clean out dust, but it might not work as well.
Posted on 09-Mar-09 at 1:05 pm | Permalink
lorraine wrote:
i got an acer which has been repaired 3 times in its first 10 months of its life, there are totally crap laptops there customer service people are idiots as im a female ive been treated like im thick. i must be buying an acer,
Posted on 27-Mar-09 at 4:19 pm | Permalink
Ulrika wrote:
I bought Acer 9920G laptop 3.5 months ago and was generally quite pleased with it so far.
However, last week and switched it on and got this message upon load up:
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable.
PXE-M0F: Exiting Broadcom PXE ROM.
Operating System not found.
Well, I got a bit worries, googled this on my other computer, some other forums mentioned that it could be due to the Hard Disk failure.
Anyway, I took it back to the shop where I brought it from, the techy guy powered the laptop and it worked fine (???). He said it might be due to some loose wire inside that got back into place whilst I was carrying it to the shop.
I was quite relieved, took the laptop back home, powered it and got the same error message as before!!! I unplugged the whole thing again, carried it around the house and it was working again (just).
I then called Acer support line and spoke to the rudest man on Earth. I explained what happened and he said it was due to the loose hard drive. I asked if I could send the laptop back to them so someone could have a look at it and fix the loose hard drive. He said I would have to pay for this because the laptop was working at this current moment. I told him that the laptop was only 3.5 months old and still under warranty and I should not pay for fixing any manufacturing defects. He then said that it was not Acer’s fault because I did not buy the laptop from them but from the shop. When I said how it was shop’s fault that they receive faulty products from the manufacturer, he told me that he could not help me because “operating system going missing” is a software issue and nothing to do with Acer.
This is the most appalling customer service I have ever witnessed - it’s absolutely shocking!
Posted on 15-Apr-09 at 9:26 am | Permalink
Jess wrote:
I recently made the mistake of buying an Acer laptop. It failed to boot up after I’d had it for 3 weeks. I then returned it to the shop and they refused to replace it because Acer don’t let them. So it was sent to Acer to be repaired. They couldn’t repair it after a month, so it was replaced (why couldn’t they just do that to start with?). The replacement broke after just over a month, so this time I demanded a refund. It took Acer over 2 months to authorise the refund because, again, the shop wasn’t allowed to. During these problems I lost a lot of A Level coursework which takes me a long time to do. I now have an LG laptop, which works better than the Acer ones ever did. NEVER buy any Acer products.
Posted on 22-Apr-09 at 9:18 pm | Permalink
jen wrote:
I shut down my acer 9300 and 4 hours later I press the power button and it only makes 3 loud beeps, the monitor doesn’t light up, usb ports, dvd drive and some outer buttons have power, but the keyboard doesn’t respond
Posted on 20-Jun-09 at 10:33 am | Permalink
Greg wrote:
YOU ARE CORRECT.. I googled “Acer is the biggest piece of shit in the industry” and your site came up #1… I just got it booted up.. exactly 14 minutes to make me THINK it was ready…. BUT HELL NO… another 4 minutes to be able to get a response when I clicked on the control panel Icon.!!! and OF COURSE Frigging VISTA Makes it 10 times worse… Gates needs to pay a little more attention to his business and less time to his philanthropic endeavors. ACER and VISTA what a helluva combination ! ! My 8 year old Gateway with XP performs much much better
Posted on 27-Jun-09 at 3:03 pm | Permalink