Amazon’s Alexa will be preloaded on Acer’s new laptops May 21, 2018 https://www.theverge.com/circuitbre...2/amazon-alexa-acer-laptops-aspire-nitro-spin
I'll never own another Acer after their poor customer support and my repeated opt-out of marketing emails being ignored forcing me to block them.
Acer laptops are not so bad; i have one it works very well. About Alexa , i dont care, i always do a clean install after i purchase a computer
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Acer had a lot of cheap laptops in their offer. I have own one, because of that. I don't expect laptop priced less than other vendors to have as solid case/body as others. Mine is over 5,5 years old and still didn't required any repair, except replacement of build-in keyboard. I type a lot. I also always do clean install of OS and I would do that on any model and vendor of any laptop.