G/fs current laptop is an acer , its been a little hatebox of a thing.
BSODs, crashes , so slow using the internet and office , just worked out its 3 years old now not 4. its never really worked right but she was too inconvienanced by not having a laptop to take it back – i stripped out all the ACER branding and bloatwear and have reformatted a few times , it never makes much difference.
My parents desk top is also an acer , its never been up to much either , strikes me that they cut alot of corners to hit price point but give a high spec. id rather a lower spec but that works better , HP have always provided me with this in the past. – again came supplied full of acer bloatwear which i had to strip out.
ITs really between the HP and the Toshiba now and im drawn to the HP purely by brand loyalty and they have never let me or the g/f down.