Acer AL1715s

Acer AL1721ms

I purchased one of these back in March this year (2004), under light daily use, the internal power board failed in Sept. A friend of mine owns 5 of these for use in his company and he has complained of similar failure one by one. I would guess that there has either been a faulty batch or the model itself is naff! The monitor itself when working was pretty good, bright picture and crystal clear at the highest resolutions. It tended to show signs of blurring at lo res though. Design is very nice and probably swayed my initial decision to purchase it. Anyway, the fault crept in gradually, it started with the odd flicker once a day to total failure in the space of about 2 ...

Acer AL1711

a year ago in the Comet sale, for £150 at that time you couldn t find a decent 17" TFT anywhere so I bought it on the spot. I use it for games, video editing, surfing the web, writing letters, everything a typical home user does and its never once given me a reason to complain. I ve used alternative ones from HP, Video7 ...

Acer AL1711

was faulty. After speaking to some very helpful and polite people it has now been collected by the manufacturer for repair. I guess only time will tell if they fix the problem and send the monitor back to me in working order and I do not know if this problem is specific to this product or whether all TFT monitors are less rigid that the traditional type. Only time will tell I suppose but I have to be honest and say that I won’t be recommending this particular model to any of my friends. If you have had a different story concerning this model, I would be grateful to know. ...