Ferrari Acer laptops, the latest....

http://store.ferrari.com/Hi-Tech/Ferrari-1100-Acer-%E2%80%93-English-Operating-system/p,shop.flypage/pid,15380/cid,208/

http://store.ferrari.com/Hi-Tech/Limited-edition-autographed-Ferrari-1100-Acer---International-Operating-system/p,shop.flypage/pid,27035/cid,208/

 

I'd heard the Brawn Apple laptop is much better and can do rings around the Ferrari Acer.

 

I used to own an Acer 4000 Ferrari. One of the most beautiful laptop i've ever bought, it never let me down... not until someone stole it.

Now i'm using the new macbook pro, and still I think after all these years, the ferrari was the best laptop. Carbon fiber and leather, amazing stuff...

too bad they dont make any new ones, all these 1100 and 1000 series are very old design.... dated back to 2005-06

 

I had got one old ferrari acer,and was the wooooorst pc I have ever tryed for the money.really,I`m not joking.

So sure apple is better.

 

Need a laptop and while I'm at it maybe can get one that has "Ferrari" written on it.

This one is "Buy it Now" at $375:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Acer-Ferrari-3200-gaming-laptop-/200658574687?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item2eb82edd5f

I have no sense of what is a good buy in terms of RAM, gigahertz, etc ... do these Acer Ferrari still bring a premium for their supposed cachet ?

Thanks,

GF

 

Tex, I've been in IT full-time for 15 years, but a long time since working on PC's, but you sorta keep up with that by default.

No offense to anyone but Acer computers, in general, are shoddy pieces. I was shocked when I found out they'd licensed the cavallino. In retrospect, it makes sense because it's about the only way they could offset their quality issues.

The best bang for the pricier buck, hands down, is Alienware. I have an i7 that smokes digital video and Maya 3D all day long.

 

i found the Ferrari editions didnt really offer the specs i wanted, but the mark up was the killer $

i recently upgraded our older acer laptop, to one on sale at futureshop for only $450, full warranty, etc and go them to throw in a new printer (basic HP printer/scaner/copier) ....an aspire 7551G , AMD processor quad-core, 6GB memoy, 750GB harddrive, AMD 3327MB memory, 17.3" LCD screen, supermulti DVD reader/writer, WIN7, office pro edition, etc

i found that the back-to-school sales are great for shopping a new laptop

 

Just about a week ago I bought a used Acer Ferrari 3400 for $200 from Craigslist. Works perfect, I formatted the new 320GB Hard drive and installed the Windows 7

 

That's exactly right. Alienware is one of only a few laptops I'd buy, ACER sure isn't one of them, and I'm in fact typing now on a 2yr old Alienware 11" i7. After two years, the battery still holds a good 4+ hour charge. The illuminated keyboard is a huge plus. And they're the only company that gives two hoots about video. It matters, a lot. On an alienware, you never have to worry how graphics intensive the multiple windows you leave open are. Big big plus. Their thech support is great, on site next day. And the front of the new Alienware laptops remind me of a 458, so you have that anyway

 

I use a Dell XPS 1710 core-duo and it will run CS4 pretty well.

One thing about desktops is, always get RAID on your systems drives. I have the Alienware Aurora Core i7 and with RAID 0 for your OS drives, it jumps performance dramatically. Windows Experience scores with cap at 5.9 with non-raid OS drives, if you really want killer OS performs, gotta go with solid state drives, which is like $300 for even a 160GB, but performance is outrageous.

I run OS on one drive, set a cache/swapfile on another drive, then store application data on yet another drive. Faster SATA's are good.

Graphics cars, I use twin NVIDIA GS 450's, each with 2GB and connected together, run dual wide screens for video editing. Graphics cards are really becoming the key because everything is so graphics intensive.

I do not connecnt my Alienware to the internet at all, because of system corruption. Just a banger machine is used for web, download stuff to shared network drive. That way you don't have to slow down your system with virus protection or get some trojans that spawns browsers every two seconds or corrupts the registry.

Anyone tried Windows 8?

 

I'm posting off of an Acer laptop right now. It is the largest pile of crap I've ever owned. I can't wait to replace it. I will never own another Acer computer.
This computer makes display decisions and changes by itself. I hate it.
Its also slower than crap.

 

OK, I was the "lucky winner":

http://www.ebay.com/itm/380374620395?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

Have not confirmed there is no hard drive, but was surprised there's no battery.

Plan is to buy a similar Acer model off craigslist, use its hard drive and other parts to get this one going. Am I on crack to think this will work ? How can I zero in on the most compatible non-Ferrari Acer model(s) ?

Thanks,

GF

 

I've owned an Alienware M17x for about 2 years now and the only reason the thing works properly is because my tech savvy friend and I have been constantly working with it. I mean, I didn't think much of it when it showed up on my doorstep like 4 months late, but the random restarts and blue screens a week after it came was just unbearable. Customer service was less than helpful to say the least and barely what you could call English speaking. Along with this I've suffered overheating issues as well as application freezes and general lack of applications working.

On the other hand, my friend has an Acer which he has owned for 3 or 4 years and it hasn't had any issues and frankly he likes it a lot. We had an Acer laptop, a low end one, for about 2 years and it worked fine until one of my siblings cracked the screen by stuffing it too hard underneath an airplane seat. Other than that it was fine.

Now, this is not to say that either brand has all good or bad devices, this has just been my experience with both brands. Truly, I think Toshiba is a good reliable brand and people I know that own them love them and have had little to no problems with them.

Hope all this helps.

 

My Alienware was very good, guess your's was faulty.

Acer's are terrible, get a sony vaio, dell or alienware.

Vaio if your not going to play games but want amazing performence in other areas.

 

Never ever run RAID 0 unless you have no care about losing your data or have a current backup scheme in place. RAID 0 stripes the info between two drives so you have twice the chance of hard drive failure.

Its not if your ever going to lose your data but when

 

Starting to believe there is no non-Ferrari near cousin to this one ... might be Acer won't provide a recovery or start up disc ... is this likely strictly a decoration?

Yes there are plently of laptop choices out there, but don't see the utility of discussing non Ferrari laptops here...

Thanks,

GF

 

The Acer ones are bull****. I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole. Lamborghini's licenced Asus laptops are good laptops but still mad overpriced because of the trademark. Good laptops nevertheless.