The only experience I have with Acers is my mum's Acer (a Travelmate) and the Acers in my old school. The Acer my mum has is so bogged down with anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-adware and firewalls (my mum is quite paranoid about malware) so it takes approximately 6 minutes to get from pressing the power button to being ready to use. The Acers at school, well what more is there to say. Schools (well at least my old school) usually bog down the install with networking, filters and kiddy games so it's not fair to compare a school computer to a different computer. So overall I don't really have any fair opinion on whether Acers are good or not.