Acer: We're Prepared for a Price War with HP
Acer: We're Prepared for a Price War with HP
Posted 10/30/2009 at 6:46am
| by Paul Lilly
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We've been talking a lot about Acer lately, and that's because Acer has been doing a lot of talking of its own. The OEM's been pounding its chest like Kevin Garnett after an 'and-one' and talking smack to Dell, HP, and anyone else who stands in its way. And now the OEM is saying it's fully prepared to take on HP in a bit of a pricing war, which comes just a day after Acer said it feels confident it will ship 40 million notebooks in 2010.
According to news and rumor site DigiTimes, HP has already kicked off some pretty fierce price competition in a few designated markets, which includes sub-$300 models in the U.S. Acer's ever talkative chairman JT Wang said his company will not only follow suit, but plans to one-up HP by aggressively marketing its netbook and ultra-thin segments, both of which are areas HP is a little weaker in.
Beyond 2010, Wang said the global netbook market is on track to reach 350 million units, and we're a bit surprised Acer didn't say it plans to capture 349 million of them.
Let the price wars begin.
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MeTo
November 01, 2009 at 8:44am
I have two Acer desktops an Intel duel core and a AMD x2 Intel 3 years old AMD 2 and 1/2 years old and they booth still work fine. IMHO "SAVE" some money.
COMMANDER_COOK
October 31, 2009 at 9:42pm
You got the picture wrong. Acer is on the right and HP is on the left.
maxpcfan
October 30, 2009 at 12:02pm
I'd say Acer has an edge in a price war, since apparently they've turned tech support into a profit center. The following is quoted verbatim from the email I got from Acer for a laptop I bought in July:
"Since this issue involves advanced troubleshooting, we fall short of resources with which we could better diagnose and resolve it for you. However Acer technicians are bound to support its customers with the removal or installation of any hardware or software shipped across with Acer machines. But they are not trained on all the advanced features of the software or hardware Acer sells.
Because this calls up on a higher level of expertise the advance troubleshooting, we only have support over the phone on these issues and it is chargeable. You may avail this support on 1. 800-237-6483 at a rate of $2.95 per minute with the slots 30 minutes ($59.99), 90 minutes ($129.99), or 15 issues ($199.99) and the validity will be 1 year which can be billed to a credit card."
Problem of the laptop: it gets bsod running wireless N.
domih2009
October 30, 2009 at 8:39am
I did service the ACER laptop of a friend of mine once. Never again. Disassembling and reassembling an ACER laptop is an experience I wish to nobody. You get what you pay for.
SuperChip64
October 30, 2009 at 8:28am
Tell you what - I've had just about every manufacturer's notebook over the last 20+ years. My last three were Acer. What I like about Acer? Very little 'crapware' preinstalled. What I don't like about Acer? The CPU/GPU fan assembly starts to crap out after about 2 years of hard use - I just bought a Belkin Notebook cooler to keep mine from shutting down.
I'd spend $50 more on an Acer if they'd beef up the fan assemblies - or at least make them easier to obtain for repairs
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