Acer's Latest Desktops Easy on the Wallet
Acer's Latest Desktops Easy on the Wallet
Posted 06/21/2010 at 6:30am
| by Paul Lilly
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Acer, the second largest PC vendor in the galaxy, continues to gun for the No. 1 spot (held by Hewlett-Packard), and one way to get there is to kick out low-cost models nearly anyone can afford. That seems to be the philosophy behind Acer's new Aspire X3 and M3 Series consumer desktop models, which start out at just $450.
"Our new Aspire X3 and M3 Series desktops are great all-around workhorses offering practical technology in an intuitive design," said Steve Smith, senior business manager of consumer desktops for Acer America. "Engineered to efficiently multitask and tackle digital media, these systems are outfitted with industry-leading components and make an appealing addition to a dorm, bedroom or home office."
Featuring a space-saving chassis, the Aspire X3 series plays both sides of the fence with AMD Athlon II, AMD Phenom II, Intel Core i3, and Intel Pentium E6600 processor options. Other specs include 4GB of memory (standard), up to 1TB of hard drive space, Intel GMA HD graphics, optional Nvidia GeForce 9200 graphics, up to 11 USB 2.0 ports, HDMI, and various other accouterments.
Acer's M3 series, on the other hand, come in only AMD flavors, either an Athlon II or Phenom II processor. Sporting a microtower chassis, the overall spec sheet is a little more subdued in some areas and includes up to 640GB of storage, one less USB 2.0 port, and choice between Nvidia's 9200 chipset or ATI's HD 5450 graphics.
Both new desktop series are available now.
Image Credit: Acer
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TechMan2525
June 21, 2010 at 2:55pm
Those computers are intended for everyday computing, yours is probably high end gaming capable. For price and everyday computing, they're ideal.
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big_montana
June 22, 2010 at 5:46am
The big problem with these desktops are that they have the Acer name on them. Acer makes garbage, knows nothing abou building quality devices, and cares even less about doing so. They just push out lower cost machines knowing that the masses are not all that well schooled on what is good and what is not, and whose sole foucs is price point. My buddy purchased an Acer desktop recently (against my advice) from Worst Buy, asked me to set it up and transfer his data to it and install his apps. The machine was used as it already had a user account created on it (not Acers fault), he takes it bake gets a new one this time and 2 days later the PSU dies, returns it to Worst Buy who wants to charge him $160 to swap out hard drives as his data and apps were already on the dead one. Acer needs to fouc on quality more than price. You can make a low cost quality computer, just look at Lenovo and Asus.
Blues22475
June 22, 2010 at 9:01am
Ironically enough, I've heard people say the same thing about Dell, HP and other brand name computer makers. I am not sure where your argument comes from, but I would like to see an example to prove your point. Otherwise I keep hearing the same things with no substance. Honestly, I think Acer makes pretty decent stuff from what I've seen (I don't see Acer's come in for repair but a ton more HP and Dell products). As far as I know, I have a friend who has an acer desktop and it's still going strong (it's several years old as well). Granted he swapped the power supply and video card, but that was because he wanted a gaming-able machine.
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DingDongWingWong
June 21, 2010 at 2:16pm
My computer could beat up that computer and take its lunch money.
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