Acer has in the USA a class action lawsuit over a Windows Vista-based notebook with 1GB of memory suitable. Buyers of the notebook, which claimed that Acer knew that 1GB too little to have the OS work smoothly, get additional memory, $ 10 or a flashdisk 16GB.
Acer offers American customers in 2008, an Acer Aspire 4520-5458 with Windows Vista Premium and bought with compensation. It comes to approximately a million customers. Acer was in 2009 sued because the Taiwanese company the laptop with 1GB, while it would know that this memory quantity was not enough to Vista Premium smooth and stable to run.
Microsoft had with the system requirements of the OS, namely recommended that, in addition to 1GB of ram is also 128MB of memory for the graphics card. With the Aspire laptop had a GeForce 7000M gpu, however, no dedicated memory, but had the graphics chip from the 1GB ram to operate. The lawsuit received class-action status, which means that everyone with the same complaint in the case can add.
Users who have the laptop yet, can claim 1GB or 2GB modules in order to upgrade the memory. However, they can also opt for payment of an amount of $ 10 or a flash drive of 16GB, writes Law360. Those who are a laptop repair as a result of the slow operation, can be a compensation of up to $ 100. In total, the proposal covers a total amount of 20 million dollars. In addition, requirements to the lawyers of the complaining party 2.7 million dollars in legal costs.