Is Acer generally considered a lower-end brand?

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My family has collectively gone thorough 3 Acer laptops. Granted, it was between the 2000's just up until late 2010. At any rate, they always, always, performed terribly. They were slow, clunky and flimsy. I was too young to know if they were low or high end laptops, but still, even when new, they were horrible.

The internet seems to give Acer a slightly flimsy and underperforming title in general.
For gaming, office use and what ever else, is Acer generally just...crappier?
 
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Yeah Acer laptops tend to be cheap and cheerful. They are not as robustly made as other well-known brands. Although their specs are admirable, they do not tend to stand the test of test nowadays.

In my personal experience, (as an IT Engineer) the top five brands based on value, performance, ease-of-use, and aftermarket service are:

HP
Dell
Lenovo
Fujitsu
Samsung

Of course this may be different for others, but this is only on my own experience with repairs and supporting these brands.
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Acer is generally a solid brand and make some fine kit.

Out of their sub brands, Packard Bell (acquired in 2008), Gateway (acquired in 2007) and eMachines (acquired by Gateway who then was acquired by Acer), PB is the better one because they are more aimed at everyday use whereas eMachines and Gateway were what I class as "get the job done" brands, like Alba and Bush here in the UK.

PS: Packard Bell was commonly regarded as a subsidary of Hewlett-Packard, but there were no connections at all.
 
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Yeah Acer laptops tend to be cheap and cheerful. They are not as robustly made as other well-known brands. Although their specs are admirable, they do not tend to stand the test of test nowadays.

In my personal experience, (as an IT Engineer) the top five brands based on value, performance, ease-of-use, and aftermarket service are:

HP
Dell
Lenovo
Fujitsu
Samsung

Of course this may be different for others, but this is only on my own experience with repairs and supporting these brands.
 
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I agree with your list too, but I would put Lenovo at top, then HP, Samsung, Fujitsu and Dell - I have only encountered one problem with a Lenovo and Dell's laptops are better than their horrid desktops. Anyone who remembers Dell's awful Optiplex GX series back from the early to mid 2000s will understand just how bad they were!
 
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