Last year when I buy a acer laptop then I am very confuse what I buy, I just got a laptop fom acer, its aspire and this laptop is awesome it has great perfomes .and I recently went to acer service center in order to swap my hdd with a sad which I had already brought, they did the job argument and voiding the warranty, any way I think acer is branded company laptop . I love acer all product, and my all family also love acer company .