Word spread through the blogosphere yesterday that Acer will be pushing Linux options more aggressively for its desktop and notebook computers. As an Ubuntu user, this excited me; my Dell notebook is going on 3 1/2 years, and its screen was damaged in a freak rubbing alcohol incident, so I’ll be looking to upgrade in the next year or so. So, I stopped by the Acer website to peruse the company’s offerings. After selecting notebook computers from the global menu, I was given a single way in which to view the selection of notebooks:
The present one model for laptop selection: product name. This is little help to me, as my criteria for selection is a delicate mixture of price, size, RAM, and hard disk space. But instead of being given the option to pivot on these attributes I must, instead, select one, review it, go back, select one, review it, and so on.
Acer has other problems, too. I encountered a “too many peoplare accessing this page error” numerous times while visting the site.
You contrast that with Dell’s laptop picker (below), and how can Acer expect to compete? Seriously?
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