I recently noticed that all the laptops I have owned so far were made by Acer. My guess is that you simply get a bit more bang for your buck when buying those, and I had never been disappointed by the hardware in place at any time. I did however hit a little snag when it comes to software made by Acer that shipped with the devices. Actually, ‘a little snag’ isn’t doing the problems any justice, since all the laptops I have owned had major issues due to software. My very first model in 2005 was an Acer Extensa 3000 with an Intel Pentium M Single Core CPU, 512 MB of RAM and a dedicated AMD Radeon GPU. Performance was good enough for my early programming needs… Continue Reading…