Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 27th Mar 2009 21:27 UTC
Law and Order "Two Middle Americans have sued Acer over its low-cost Aspire notebooks, claiming that the Taiwanese PC giant pre-installed Windows Vista on machines ill-equipped to run Microsoft's latest OS. With a lawsuit filed Wednesday in San Francisco, California, two residents of Fostoria, Ohio seek damages and relief from the world's third-largest computer maker after purchasing a sub-$600 Aspire notebook that included Windows Vista Premium and a gigabyte of shared system and graphics memory."
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RE: Comment by Kroc
by CPUGuy on Fri 27th Mar 2009 22:00 UTC in reply to "Comment by Kroc"
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It all comes down to the consumer actually doing research before they buy a product.
I'm not going to sue Ford when they sell me a car full of features but also full of cheap plastic parts that tend to break.

Why is it any different with computers? Because it is too technical?
The consumer needs to educate themselves before purchasing products. First and foremost learn the phrase "You get what you pay for."

Now Microsoft should come down hard on Acer for selling their OS on crap PCs, but in the end there is very little Microsoft can do except to stop selling Acer their software.

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