ASUS breaks your ROG Ally if you don't pay $200 for warranty repairs: SCAMMING COMPANY! - eviltoast
  • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Back in university at the turn of the millennia I was a front-line desktop support guy and the amount of Acer and Asus laptops that came in just completely falling apart was insane.

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      6 months ago

      I was in college around the same time and recall doing my usual minimum research for a new system and still to this day think “acer’s crap, right?” when someone mentions it, even though the memory of why is gone.

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        6 months ago

        I don’t have experience with their systems, but I had to go back to the store twice for an Acer monitor. First monitor had a dead HDMI port, second had a gap in the chassis at the top. Don’t know why I didn’t just go with a different one after the second replacement; it would end up developing a line of shadowing after about 18 months.

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        6 months ago

        Acers would start with a QWERTY and after a few months would be down to Q–R-T. If you were lucky one of your USB ports hasn’t detached from the motherboard.

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      6 months ago

      Sounds like a nightmare. I don’t have a lot of firsthand experience with Acer but I did peg them as low quality too somehow