Last week alarm bells were ringing across the globe after a leading Wall Street analyst suggested that Dell might buy Acer.

This week it’s a little different.

Over at The Inquirer word is Acer’s about to buy another PC company, going so far as to write: Acer told the Wall Street Journal that it wants to buy a PC player this year and is looking at some “candidates”…

However it goes, things are heating up in the PC market…