Do not buy an Acer PC from Wow Sight n Sound Maroochy
Oct 21st 2007, 11:20 am
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Re: Do not buy an Acer PC from Wow Sight n Sound Maroochy
Oct 21st 2007, 11:55 am
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Re: Do not buy an Acer PC from Wow Sight n Sound Maroochy
Oct 21st 2007, 11:56 am
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Re: Do not buy an Acer PC from Wow Sight n Sound Maroochy
Get a Mac, they just keep getting better and better.
Oct 21st 2007, 12:52 pm
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Re: Do not buy an Acer PC from Wow Sight n Sound Maroochy
Oct 21st 2007, 8:10 pm
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Re: Do not buy an Acer PC from Wow Sight n Sound Maroochy
I ordered a Hitachi 400 GB HD before i came out. DOA and had to send it back to Portsmouth. HD do go all the time. According to some it's getting worse as companies try to cut corners. After some of the take overs some HD's have had accoustic dampening parts removed, allegedly. Many people on several web forums will tell you the same. Hitachi bought out IBM after the so called Deathstar fiasco.
Seen a few PC's here and noticed they were all (the ones i seen) only had 256mb systen ram.
Seen a few PC's here and noticed they were all (the ones i seen) only had 256mb systen ram.
Oct 21st 2007, 8:15 pm
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Re: Do not buy an Acer PC from Wow Sight n Sound Maroochy
[QUOTE=kevinbloomfield;5451537]Hard drives fail all the time?? Where did you get that from? I've ran an IT business for 6 years and had maybe 5 HD's fail.
Anyway, it looks to me like tillysmum wants to buy a new laptop, I didn't see anything about a faulty HD.
Tillysmum said the HD packed up in the post mate, just trying to help out.
Anyway, it looks to me like tillysmum wants to buy a new laptop, I didn't see anything about a faulty HD.
Tillysmum said the HD packed up in the post mate, just trying to help out.
Oct 21st 2007, 8:25 pm
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Re: Do not buy an Acer PC from Wow Sight n Sound Maroochy
Hang on a minute, 
Don't they have a sale of goods act? Like fit for purpose, or anything like that.
Or am I being naive here.
Don't they have a sale of goods act? Like fit for purpose, or anything like that.
Or am I being naive here.
Oct 21st 2007, 10:02 pm
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Re: Do not buy an Acer PC from Wow Sight n Sound Maroochy
[QUOTE=Lenmil;5452586]
Did she? I just read it again and I still can't find it
Anyway, good on ya for trying to help
Hard drives fail all the time?? Where did you get that from? I've ran an IT business for 6 years and had maybe 5 HD's fail.
Anyway, it looks to me like tillysmum wants to buy a new laptop, I didn't see anything about a faulty HD.
Tillysmum said the HD packed up in the post mate, just trying to help out.
Anyway, it looks to me like tillysmum wants to buy a new laptop, I didn't see anything about a faulty HD.
Tillysmum said the HD packed up in the post mate, just trying to help out.
Anyway, good on ya for trying to help
Oct 21st 2007, 10:06 pm
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Re: Do not buy an Acer PC from Wow Sight n Sound Maroochy
Hard drives fail all the time?? Where did you get that from? I've ran an IT business for 6 years and had maybe 5 HD's fail.
Anyway, it looks to me like tillysmum wants to buy a new laptop, I didn't see anything about a faulty HD.
Fact is that it seems all the crap comes to Australia to be sold, you'll see stuff advertised that was sold in the UK 2 or 3 years ago (they still see plasma TV's as cutting edge). Don't anyone be under the illusion that you'll get the latest technology here, you'll have to fly over to Hong Kong or Singapore for that.
Anyway, it looks to me like tillysmum wants to buy a new laptop, I didn't see anything about a faulty HD.
Fact is that it seems all the crap comes to Australia to be sold, you'll see stuff advertised that was sold in the UK 2 or 3 years ago (they still see plasma TV's as cutting edge). Don't anyone be under the illusion that you'll get the latest technology here, you'll have to fly over to Hong Kong or Singapore for that.
On home PC's I have never had a hard drive failure... in 25 years !!!
They are undoubtedly the single most efficient and least replaced item in my opinion in any personal pc system..
More often than not, its bad architecture within the host machine, that causes conflicts with vital components.. more often its electrical issues, and heat humidity and ventillation
Oct 21st 2007, 10:47 pm
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Oct 21st 2007, 10:57 pm
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Re: Do not buy an Acer PC from Wow Sight n Sound Maroochy
After our Toshiba packed in, we bought an Acer (after the Harvey Norman sales guy bigged it up) and what a pile of shit it is! Never again.
Oct 21st 2007, 10:59 pm
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Oct 21st 2007, 11:05 pm
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Re: Do not buy an Acer PC from Wow Sight n Sound Maroochy
Hi, you lot seem to know what you are talking about but please dont laugh at my stupid questions
Will my computer from the UK work in Perth? It is only a year or so old and Compaqu preario? Also, will my daughters lap top work it is Mediom? thanks.
Will my computer from the UK work in Perth? It is only a year or so old and Compaqu preario? Also, will my daughters lap top work it is Mediom? thanks.
