Years ago, my company sold about a dozen of Acer laptops over a period of a year (they were two or three different models if I recall, and went to three or four different customers), and 6 desktops to another customer for their student lab.
25% of laptops were defective within the first two years (not just hard drives, but motherboard issues as well). 2 of the 6 desktops also suffered hardware failures within 2-3 years (thankfully in these two cases, it was the modem which died, and prevented the PC from POSTing until I removed the defective modem).
Last year, another customer of mine bought an Acer desktop for Autocad/Revit work (funny thing, he confused Asus with Acer while shopping). Kept randomly crashing. When I examined it, I found it was overheating because Acer put a clearly inadequate cooler on the i7 7700 that came with the PC (CPU temp would reach over 90C under a typical 3D render job in Revit). The heatsink they used was big enough to handle an i3, but definitely not an i7. Poor design decision on Acer's part there for the sake of saving a few dimes. That PC ended up being moved to their conference room to use for light tasks such as Powerpoint presentations and the likes (and I believe it still occasionally freezes/BSODs).
This is why I ain't touching Acer anytime soon, and am also advising people to stay away from them.
