Acer Falls Further Behind in Chasing HP for No. 1 Notebook Shipment Spot
Acer Falls Further Behind in Chasing HP for No. 1 Notebook Shipment Spot
Posted 02/03/2010 at 9:58am
| by Paul Lilly
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Acer's never been shy about its plans to become the world's largest PC maker, but as it turns out, gunning for that No. 1 spot, at least in terms of notebook shipments, might be harder than the OEM thought.
In the last quarter of 2009, Acer shipped about 9.5 million notebooks, an impressive number, but not as impressive as the 11.38 million units HP managed to ship out. That gives HP a bit of breathing room after Acer previously closed the gap to 1.05 million units (the narrowest it's ever been) when it shipped 9.91 million units in the third quarter, compared to Acer's 8.86 million.
HP has the North American market to thank for increasing its lead, due mostly to a series of sales promotions during the holiday shopping season, including a sub-$300 mainstream notebook.
Looking ahead, HP expects to ship 44 million notebooks in 2010, while Acer will push its ultra-thin line in an attempt to move beyond its original goal of 40 million units.
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logicmaster2003
February 03, 2010 at 11:30am
go USA :) I'm glad to hear our local brew HP wins :) Now we just have to make sure HP takes good care of their customers !
on the side note, I've been eyeing on one of those 10.1 inch netbook but what I've been just waiting and waiting because it was the first ATOM processor netbook. Now there are versions and variations of ATOM processors (multi-core and etc), ARMS, TEGRA and TEGRA2 and whatever.. its just confusing the heck out of me so I won't be getting a netbook anytime soon !
I'll stick to my desktop AMD Phenom II X4 940 + asus M3A78-CM + 4GB DDR2-800 + winXP-32 bit with directx10 + Evga GTX260 for much longer :)
Sebie Kay
February 03, 2010 at 10:23am
Neither HP or Acer branded products appeal to me. After all, how long will a $299 computer last, really? A year? Hey... just in time for NEXT years promo!! Then you get the fun of transferring all your data from your old PC to your new PC. FUN!
No thanks, HP, ACER. I will stick with a better built machine that costs a little more, but that I don't have to replace every year or two.
-=Do unto others... THEN RUN!!=-
blink18591
February 03, 2010 at 11:03am
...You know both companies make other choice available, not just sub-300 machines. Like HP's Elitebook
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