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July 7, 2014 6:37:02 PM

Lenovo, Acer Aspire, MSI or ASUS? What brand is the best when it comes to cheap gaming laptop?

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July 7, 2014 6:42:58 PM

FrankDDougherty said:
Lenovo, Acer Aspire, MSI or ASUS? What brand is the best when it comes to cheap gaming laptop?


ASUS
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July 7, 2014 6:43:22 PM

Lenovo for ultra cheap laptops, MSI for cheap+mid+high end laptops, and Asus for mid to high end quality laptops.
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July 7, 2014 6:43:27 PM

higher to lower
asus>msi>Acer>Lenovo
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July 7, 2014 6:44:21 PM

Laptops - 1. Asus (expensive) 2. MSI 3. Lenovo.

Never get HP or Dell - poor quality and poor after sales service
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July 10, 2014 6:57:05 AM

As a former hardware repair tech, I look at things more from the warranty side, since it's basically Foxconn assembling the parts which are all coming from the same suppliers anyway. You always hope you never need warranty service, but the law of averages means some percentage of all units made will be defective, so it's prudent to plan for when it's your turn in the barrel.

Apple gets top marks even if they are a monopolistic and anti-competitive company. All Apple's efforts go towards funneling people into their retail stores. If there's an independent AASP within about 50 miles of an Apple store, Apple will dump all over this company day and night. They will demand you turn your entire business upside down to suit their whims, and just after you reach the point of no return, they'll lose interest in whatever bug they had up their rear before and start in on something new. The idea being to make it as difficult as possible for independent repair shops to actually repair anything and people getting so frustrated they just take it to an Apple store which is given significantly more latitude. Then Apple has also illegally (in the US) colluded with Flextronics to carve up the mail in repair business. Flextronics runs all of Apple's mail-in repairs and Apple actually forces them to buy all the parts they use, so I can't figure out how it works out to be a good business deal for Flextronics, but not my concern. Still, last time I checked, anti-trust laws in the US prohibit any two or more companies from intentionally colluding to carve up any given market between them, which is exactly what Apple and Flextronics have done.

Dell is nipping at Apple's heels. Like Apple they stock repair parts for at least 5 years and you can get repair parts either next business day or second business day, I forget. Dell is nice in that they won't threaten to void your warranty just because you wanted to replace a HDD. They won't service that HDD under warranty, but there's nothing unreasonable about that.

Toshiba rounds out my third recommendation. They can be maddeningly slow getting you parts, but unlike outfits such as Acer, I've never seen them try and welch on a warranty. I've seen Acer try and charge $400 for a mid-range video card that never retailed for more than $200.

I also refuse to buy anything from ASUS because I do not support openly racist companies. The US arm of ASUS is in Fremont, California, part of the San Francisco Bay Area. If not the most racially diverse areas of the country, it ranks up there, yet somehow ASUS manages to hire almost exclusively Asian employees... Not even just Asian, but of a very narrow ethnic subset of the Asian race. Out of about 300 employees, somewhere between 280-290 of them were Asian. So unless someone can give me an explanation for how that sort of thing happens that doesn't involve a directive from the top levels of management, I'm going with blatant racism.

I have a friend, who is white, and worked for ASUS' Customer Loyalty group for a time. Pretty much immediately his Asian coworkers started harassing him, in particular two other members of the Customer Loyalty group: Tien Phan and Celeste Ilagan seemed to collaborate with one another on ways to harass my friend while the others just stood by and let it happen. So, I consider those two no better than your card carrying KKK member. After several months of near daily harassment my friend complains and floats the idea that being the only white person in the Customer Loyalty group, it has to do with his race. ASUS HR recognizes, in writing no less, that my friend claimed to be discriminated against, yet they don't investigate it in any way and are quite open about how my friend's complaint of being discriminated against was somehow harassing towards his Asian coworkers. Pretty much a textbook case of retaliation. Under California law, it doesn't even matter what my friend's intent was, only that ASUS clearly saw it as my complaining about legally prohibited actions on the part of its employees and also ASUS' own internal anti-harassment policy. But because my friend was white and the coworkers doing the harassment were both Asian, guess who gets the blame?

I refuse to support a racist company like that, but I have another reason for disliking ASUS and it's the same reason I dislike all the other brands out there. They all do a limited release method of production. It's demonstrated well by an example my friend was dealing with at ASUS. Customer writes him about a defective Matrix 7970 video card, which was the absolute top of the line at that time. Turns out ASUS only manufactured 1000 of them and dumped them all into the retail channel. None were held back for warranty claims. So the only units available for warranty claims were those that could be reworked.

AFAIK all the brands I didn't list above do this kind of thing. They buy enough materials for X number of units, dump the whole lot into the retail channel, and cannibalize those that come back as defective to repair other units. So it doesn't take long before your warranty is more useful as an emergency supply of toilet paper than it is getting your computer fixed. This is why Acer was trying to charge $400 for a video card worth maybe $100 at the time in my earlier example.

Also, AFAIK with everyone else, you're responsible for shipping your laptop/desktop to the company's repair facility at your own expense. Dell will ship just the part, and both Dell and Apple will send someone to you if you have their extended warranty.
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July 10, 2014 4:12:19 PM

Sounds like a raft of good reasons to build your own pc.
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July 11, 2014 5:31:27 AM

Hi,

For laptop, I will suggest you lenovo and for Desktop I will suggest you LG

Regards
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July 14, 2014 10:04:15 PM

Thank you so much guys for your answer. I appreciate your time and effort. But I just want to know why you choose such brand. I'm thinking of Asus because I tried it before but it would be unfair for other brands because I haven't been a user.
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July 14, 2014 10:25:51 PM

You go through the usual - specs (eg cpu and graphics card), reputation - quality and aftersales and price.

Asus has a good rep, next is MSI then Lenovo.

You can get roughly the same spec for any of them.

Asus costs more than the others.
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