Should you buy an Acer computer? That depends if you like to repair them yourself. The power supply is not standard like most new prebuilt computers, but my current experience with Acer is that they didn’t have my PSU or they didn’t want to sell it to me directly. When I called their only authorized company that sells their parts (800-999-4409) they said they don’t have it in stock but they can get it from Acer. It was close to twice the price of a standard PSU. The problem is that the price of the PSU is almost not worth it compared to the price of the computer. When I searched the internet for the part, the only place that sold it was in Europe.

Another thing that doesn’t make it worth buying an Acer computer is that even under warranty, the customer pays for shipping to the warehouse.

I check to see if the same problem is with HP and Dell on their non-standard Power Supplies. The Dell PSU for an XPS computer I was able to find for a decent price, but is was only from one company. The HP PSU was only available USED.

So is it worth buying prebuild computers that come with non-standard Power Supplies when a big part of the cost is the time spent setting up the computer?