Acer sucks anyway. Don't buy acer. They are cheap chinese goods with "Acer" stickers....
I disagree that Acer sucks. I should know. I own an Acer Aspire 3002 NLC (running Mandrake Linux 10.1).
As for being cheap, I don't think anybody would have a problem with that. ;)
Pedantically, there is a lot of difference between cost-effective, inexpensive and cheap ;).
Regards,
ah