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post #1 of 31
1/24/06 at 4:00pm
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I am just intrested to know are Acer a American brand or are they a different??
i read somewhere that they came from Taiwan?? do they??
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post #2 of 31
1/24/06 at 4:04pm
I think they are Japaneese!
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post #3 of 31
1/24/06 at 4:17pm
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intresting....any more suggestions hoi hou hoo!
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post #4 of 31
1/24/06 at 4:25pm
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Originally Posted by inspiron_nick
hoi hou hoo!

WTF???
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post #5 of 31
1/24/06 at 4:34pm
Acer is an italian company
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post #6 of 31
1/24/06 at 4:40pm
ACER is a non-American company.
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post #7 of 31
1/24/06 at 4:49pm
Acer is difinitely not an American nor European company, it's from SE Asia but I don't know exactly its origins.
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post #8 of 31
1/24/06 at 4:54pm
After a short search, it's Taiwanese.
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post #9 of 31
1/24/06 at 4:56pm
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Originally Posted by SMP_Homer
WTF???
that was my japenesse impression i was just laughing about how he spelt it

hoooooowhar!

how did you find out
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post #10 of 31
1/24/06 at 5:05pm
Hate to burst your bubble but 99.9% of electronics are non American/British.
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post #11 of 31
1/24/06 at 5:28pm
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holy crap! really?? thats odd Dell???
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post #12 of 31
1/24/06 at 5:37pm
If your reply was sarcastic (can't tell) :-) Say those products are "designed" over here but built in China/Taiwan/Korea. Alienware may be a American company, but it certainly doesn't make 100% of the components in the USA. Perhaps one or two companies (say PSU) are 100% British, but component wise (transformer, resistors, capactors, PCB etc) made abroad.

If products were 100% locally made you can bet price tag won't be so low (quality will be inferior also)
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post #13 of 31
1/24/06 at 6:03pm
Acer, along with Asus, are both Taiwanese companies. I know because my father is friend's with the founder of both
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post #14 of 31
1/24/06 at 6:54pm
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Originally Posted by S54
I know because my father is friend's with the founder of both
Really? Well, then you guys might know my father (co-founder of Acer)!!!
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post #15 of 31
1/24/06 at 7:56pm
Nearly all notebooks nowadays are made in China with SE Asian components, exceptfor a very few brands (Dell is not one of them nor HP nor IBM) might be assembeled in European countries also with SE Asian components. This is the norm nowadays.
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post #16 of 31
1/25/06 at 5:36am
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no i was not been sarcastic but dell is the worlds biggest computer brand
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post #17 of 31
1/25/06 at 6:12am
And because they're the biggest they can afford to source components from the cheapest country. That's not the UK or the USA. Same with clothing companies also. Did you know it's cheaper to make send the components to China, get them to build it, ship it back and it'll still be cheaper than being make in the UK?

If you're lucky a local will build it and install Windows (this is a custom build machine) Still standard far eastern made components - however off the shelf computers have their OS installed via restore CD (or straight to the HD over LAN/IDE connection) by some guy/gal in the Far East factory. When computers were in their infancy you did see "Made in the UK" but that's now gone :-( Same for Hi-Fi I've lost count the number of companies that have moved to the Far East for production purposes.

The call centre support departments are now being moved abroad. One computer company I worked for closed down the UK call centre then changed to Ireland (cheaper labour) then a few years after that closed that down and changed to India.
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post #18 of 31
1/25/06 at 3:45pm
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I got my Dell Dimension XPS Pentium 1 166mhz in 1996 and when i phoned dell to order it they were in Ireland and when i order my Latitude D410 they are now in India but they were still helpful!
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post #19 of 31
1/25/06 at 3:50pm
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Compaq Persario 133mhz
Dell Dimension XPS M 166mhz Intel!!!!!!!!
Dell Dimension P3 750mhz Intel Pentium 3!!!!!!!!!! Gave it to my sister!!!!!!!!
Dell Inspiron 6000 1.6 Centrino
Dell Latitude D410 1.8 Centrino

Thats my timeline Dell Only!!!!!!!!!!
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post #20 of 31
1/25/06 at 4:00pm
Since Dell moved to India the level of customer support is gone from good to lousy. Business contract with £10,000+ annual spending, 4 laptops, 2 DOA and refused replacement...had to take them to court. Avoid.
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