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06/28/09

In reply to Acer Quietly Poised To Surpass Dell As Second-Largest PC Maker
I'd be willing to bet that eMachines and Gateway make up the bulk of their full on PC sales in the US. eMachines caters to the Walmart crowd, which isn't very high margin but extremely high volume (but not really the type to hang out on a tech blog), and Gateway still has contracts with several major corporations and government entities.

The Aspire One is easily the most common netbook in my area. For every Asus, Dell, or MSI I'll see four or five Acers.

From what I hear, the Acer brand is much bigger internationally than it is in the US and, as the rest of the world computerizes, the US market is going to become less and less critical to a company's bottom line. I expect in the coming years we're going to see a lot of companies that we Americans have never heard of start to take industry leading roles.
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bill cant fart
06/28/09

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How's the build quality on Acers? I'm looking for a 14 or 15 inch laptop to Hackintosh or put Ubuntu on. All the Dells I've seen are almost as bad as my white Macbook.
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Cordfucious of Tech Clan
06/28/09

@bill cant fart: I am commenting from my Aspire 3680. I havent had an issue in 3yrs. Plus Acer's are a wiz to hack and mod. I added internal bluetooth and a DVD burner. The only thing I can complain about is the Celeron M. It works for most of my needs but it lags in the video dept. and the Zune software KILLS it. The case is plastic and not extreemly rugged, but for the 300 I paid for it in 06 not too bad at all.
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soulfinger
06/28/09

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Michael Dell close the company and give the money back to the shareholders.
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Cordfucious of Tech Clan
06/28/09

@soulfinger: I am commenting from my Aspire 3680. I havent had an issue in 3yrs. Plus Acer's are a wiz to hack and mod. I added internal bluetooth and a DVD burner. The only thing I can complain about is the Celeron M. It works for most of my needs but it lags in the video dept. and the Zune software KILLS it. The case is plastic and not extreemly rugged, but for the 300 I paid for it in 06 not too bad at all.
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Cordfucious of Tech Clan
06/28/09

@Cordfucious Jackson of KingPop Clan: sorry wrong thread
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MadCrazy
06/28/09

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The Third world market? The call centres in India?
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Hello Mister Walrus
06/28/09

@MadCrazy: The Asians are buying all these Acers. It's a Taiwanese company - naturally, Asia is their primary market.
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