The question is "do you know about Acer's non-budget crap?". Acer's business line of laptops is actuall well built and competitively prices for that market. It's true I would personally want an Aspire (laptop or desktop) as the majority are geared towards day to day consumers (home users) and not built to the same standards as their Extensa and Travelmate lines. First generation Aspire notebooks were built really well though until the diverged to separate product lines. So, before bashing Acer, pull your head out of your a$$ and get to know more about the company.

It's like buying a Dell notebook, if I was going to buy one I'd get a Latitude and not an Inspiron. Toshiba, it's all about the Tecra. Business grade people. You get what you pay for.