>>No you aren't dreaming. I bought my friend a new brand acer:
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>Speaking of which, have Acers improved? Twelve years ago I worked for a little company which sold them, and I wasn't happy with them at all. They were a kludge of cheap components. They even tried to make half-height casings out of beer can sheets reinforced with plastic (!). The guys in the hardware part of the shop had a lot of work to do replacing components in new machines.
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>But that was a dozen years ago. Did they achieve quality?

Americans decreased quality, Acer increased quality so than I think so Acer today equal quality as american brands.

I remembered we sold Austin PC in Turkey. First Austin PC's were coming as "Made in USA" label. After that they beginnened come with "Assembled in USA" label, than "Assembled in Mexico". Today if you open an IBM PC you can probably see "Made in Taiwan R.O.C." label... :)

Today there are a lot of fictitious brands. It makes Acer as an elite brand.

We have a saying "A cross-eyed be sultan among with blinds"... :)