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[TunaLover]

so basically another "Phantom"?

Phantom was just a vaporware, we´re talking about a serious Taiwanesse company.

 

[Innotech]

I have an ACER desktop and its honestly not bad. Havent had a single issue with it. I think maybe their bad quality stops at laptops.

 

[rainer516]

I have an ACER desktop and its honestly not bad. Havent had a single issue with it. I think maybe their bad quality stops at laptops.

Their laptops are extremely budget-end for the U.S. market, in the middle eastern and asian markets they have some mid range stuff to compete with Toshiba and Panasonic and their quality i much better, but they are priced a bit higher.

 

[zoku88]

I have an ACER desktop and its honestly not bad. Havent had a single issue with it. I think maybe their bad quality stops at laptops.

Well, laptops are really hard to build. Lots of problems. Desktops are easy. I mean, how do you mess up a desktop?

 

[domokunrox]

Acer makes a reliable, cheap Steam installed console, then I'd buy it.

 

[surazal]

If Acer does this with off the shelf components, what's to stop the other PC manufacterers making a slightly better and compatible system? And then we are back to the problem of nonstandard and rolling specs that have plagued PCs for a long time.

 

[lupinko]

To be fair. Who does?

Walmart.

Vizio Box coming soon with hit titles such as Wally's World and Sam's Club.

 

[Tutomos]

I know they want a piece of the casual market. Wii is big in Taiwan.

 

[bafflewaffle]

Sounds like a GPX2 in home console form I think.

 

[AmMortal]

I can't believe some of the replies in this thread, c'mon what the hell do we lose?

IMO, its always nice to see new companies try.

They might succeed, btw my Acer laptop never broke in the 3-4 years I have it.

 

[Crayon]

I'll buy if it releases before I go to bed tonite. I'm in a mood.

 

[duk]

phantom berieve

 

[aeolist]

Well, laptops are really hard to build. Lots of problems. Desktops are easy. I mean, how do you mess up a desktop?

Shitty motherboard and power supply. With all of the other parts (except the case which isn't important) there are only a few major manufacturers and reliability is more normalized across the board. A shitty mobo and PSU, though, is the best way for an OEM to skimp on costs and the parts that tend to fail most often in desktops.

 

[adama-rama]

Acer competing with the Big Three in the home console wars...

On the bright side, it might develop a decent homebrew scene before it crashes spectacularly.

On a semi-related note, after buying a (brand new) dodgy Chimei 22" monitor, then trading it in for a dodgy Samsung from the store, then 2 other models, I finally got an Acer model and it works fine.

 

[Kuran]

Maybe they can make a protective sleeve for the PSP Console System™.

 

[Mr. Pointy]

You know, a console-style gaming PC wouldn't be a bad idea if PC developers would do Thinstalled versions of their games.

 

[Chrange]

Yeesh - six months ago we got four, maybe five, new Acer laptops for the office. Now we have none, all abandoned and replaced with Dell laptops instead. Constant problems with the hardware, and a range of problems - not just one or two issues repeating.

 

[nofi]

Acer plans to join the console market

 

[jakncoke]

so will they they buy some devs to get some exclusive games?

 

[$h@d0w]

It would sell a ton if they called it the WoW box.