Acer Beats Dell to Become Number Two Notebook Maker
Acer Beats Dell to Become Number Two Notebook Maker
Posted 05/18/2009 at 1:57pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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Just this quarter Acer beat out Dell for second place among laptop shipments worldwide thanks to the gigantic influence of netbooks on the PC market.
In the first quarter of this year HP continued to hold the number one spot with their market share growing to 24.1 percent (more than 7.3 million units shipped). But, the number two spot, which was previously held by Dell, was handed over to Acer thanks to their 18.8 percent market share. Much of this is comprised of netbook shipments, a market that Acer has 30.5 percent of.
31.6 percent of Acer’s shipments were netbooks, while others such as HP, Dell, Toshiba and Lenovo shipped out less than 10 percent of their volume as netbooks.
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bluetorino1973
May 19, 2009 at 9:45am
Dell right now sucks big time. They need to build a better quilty products, get decent customer service, and make it cheaper with out building crap. I would rather buy HP, Lenovo, Compaq, Sony, Toshiba or the horribly expensive Macbook before Dell. Clean up their act a maybe I'll be a customer again.
Defiant
May 19, 2009 at 6:24am
The only reason for this is because acer is cheaper (because they use garbage cheap componenets in everything, except the aspire one line), Dell has much better quality notebooks.
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