The Acer Guy

Picked this story up today and thought I’d make some sense of it before someone else decides to blow it out of proportion.
Acer has taken the courageous decision to join other manufacturers in ordering a battery recall after previously saying that its batteries were not at risk.
Although no Acer notebooks have had any battery-related problems, [...]

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Here’s an interesting fact: Nearly half of the visitors to The Acer Guy are using Windows Vista.
I am assuming these Vista visits have a lot to do with the surge in interest over the Orbicam problems under this same operating system. And, as these Orbicams “stopped working”, I’m assuming all these people upgraded from XP.
Well, [...]

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Well yesterday marked a few milestones.
First of all, the news that Acer had become the third-largest PC vendor in the world.
Then, The Acer Guy managed 100 site visits for the very first time. I know it’s not much but I’m proud of it.
Finally, the Swicki counter for “Orbicam Driver” hit the 1000-mark which [...]

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Now here’s something to celebrate.
Just read this news flash over at MLive.com that puts Acer AHEAD of Lenovo for the first time.
The title and focus of the article is about HP’s 4 point lead over Dell but the real news (for me anyway) happens a little further down:
Under IDC’s measure, China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. tied [...]

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Notebook Review has an interesting article that my aggregator picked up this morning.
According to the article, Acer is about to “ditch” the Windows XP operating system.
70% of Acer’s notebook shipments in Taiwan are now using the Windows Vista operating system according to Acer’s president of marketing for Taiwan, Calvin Chang. Chang also said that Acer [...]

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Sorry to steal the headline but this post on Menafn shows that Acer rcorded a YoY growth of 50% in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, and before any of you accuse me of distorting the maths, the article goes on to say:
The IT vendor is still the number one supplier for notebooks, with [...]

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Saw an interesting post about the new Altos easyStore today.
Although it’s described as an “intelligent” network storage solution for small office and home network environments, I definitely think there is some room for home applications here.
I mean, the easyStore offers up to 2TB of storage capacity through 4 high capacity drives, it can be configured [...]

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More Vista worries here.
I have noticed a HUGE demand for “Acer OrbiCam driver” in my swicki. We’re talking a LOT of people: 759 searches (number 1 spot) compared to 130 for the second-placed “customer support” request.
I have found this link to DriverZone.com for the Acer OrbiCam driver. According to this page, the supported systems are:
Operating [...]

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Got a mail from Bill yesterday asking help on a Vista upgrade problem.
Bill’s problem was that during the upgrade from Windows Xp to Vista, he “lost” GridVista and was no longer able to re-install it as his version of GridVista was no longer compatible.
Now I am not a software engineer, nor am I related to [...]

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Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of people visiting The Acer Guy after performing some interesting queries in Google. The How to switch Gridvista off article was my first response to these particular requests, today I’m going to answer another.
I’m going to make this a new feature of The Acer Guy as it’s the sort [...]

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