Re: Acer laptops, BIOS updates w/without Windows, opinions/experiences w quality/support?

[Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt>]

I've heard that some new laptops come with some weird software BIOS
that resides in the Windows rescue partition, hence you needing it to
update the BIOS and deleting it might indeed screw up the laptop. This
is just hearsay, i have no evidence.

As far as Acer laptops go, the few i've used don't really appeal to
me; plus techsupport here is crappy and if i need the laptop fixed
it'll have to go abroad (from Portugal to Spain).

I'd prefer Toshiba laptops, i've seen at least one running Ubuntu
(+compiz) with no issues.

Nuno Magalhães
LU#484677