The Acer Guy – the final post.
- posted by Michael Walsh on January 2nd, 2011
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This isn’t going to be easy. After 5 years of constant service to the Acer community, The Acer Guy has reached the end of the line. This has been one of the hardest professional decisions of my life and one I have taken with consideration and a heavy heart but it’s the right one. The [...]
The Future of The Acer Guy is in your hands
- posted by Michael Walsh on October 19th, 2010
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This is a post that could worry the many Acer Guys I’ve had the pleasure of meeting over the past four and a bit years.
Don’t panic. I know what I’m doing… I think.
You may have noticed that I’ve been almost completely absent from the blog for the best part of a year, leaving this site and its free, real time feedback to problems, posts and other general queries about Acer products almost completely in the hands of a few dedicated members to whom I will be eternally grateful. You know who you are!
The winds of change
- posted by Michael Walsh on May 15th, 2010
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Hi everybody and welcome back to another very rare installment from the ever-so-slightly-hectic world of The Acer Guy.
In the four years I’ve been living online I’ve discovered that writing an article here is like preparing for a wedding. You have to know that “she’s the one” and that you want to go though with it of course, yet every now and again, when you’re under the kind of pressure we are day in-day out to satisfy her never-ending needs, you often experience first hand that love has some wonderful ups and colossal downs.
A lot more in store
- posted by Michael Walsh on April 26th, 2010
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OK. Confession time. My contributions to this part of the site are in direct proportion to the amount of spare room I have on my desk which more or less sums up the atmosphere over at Acer HQ. Today I got a sneak preview of the Gartner results for 1Q 2010 and there’s very little between the top two brands (Acer and HP) and also I’ve seen what’s coming (and named most of it too) and can actually say that after a long stretch of CPU brags and first to market technologies, the PC market is about to become very interesting. It’s a battle and we’re definitely closing in which explains why I feel like I’ve aged 5 years this year alone!
If proof were needed
- posted by Michael Walsh on March 18th, 2010
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As proof, if any were needed, that my real job is hindering my plans for TheAcerGuy content, here’s a list of what I did today:
1. Product Naming PPT presentation (classified)
2. Service Naming PPT presentation (classified)
3. Website Naming PPT presentation (unrelated)
4. Timeline X ADV checks (read this for the scoop – Great work on respecting the roadmap Acer US!!!)
4. Timeline X press release (see above – looking forward to discussing this)
5. New product press release (classified – great name, he says, modestly)
6. Acer Group Staff Appraisal Guide check (Human Resources. 30 pages. – need I say more?)
7. Projectors series brochure check (yawn)
Who wants my job?
- posted by Michael Walsh on March 2nd, 2010
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Great headline right? You’ll all be climbing over yourselves for a piece of this I’m sure.
Truth is, this job’s as exciting as it is frustrating as you never actually get to work on supporting products once you’ve helped launch them. And once they’re launched, I no longer have the time for my sneak preview videos because I’m busy creating names for the next wave of goodies.
Sure I get to see what’s coming months in advance but of the 15 or so items to pass through my hands so far this year, I’ve been able to speak about none.
Merry Christmas to all 567,861 of you
- posted by Michael Walsh on December 22nd, 2009
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567,861. That’s the number of Unique Visitors to this site in 2009 and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank every single last one of you for an amazing year. Let’s just say that without you, 2010 wouldn’t be shaping up to be the year I hope it’s going to be.
This time of year is great to look back and see how far you’ve come, the lessons you’ve learned and plan ahead for the year to come. I love Google Analytics as it gives a great picture of the statistics without touching too much on the relevance, which I’ll come to in a moment.
As this site is more about you than it is about me, I’m delighted to publish what is a particularly interesting overview of 2009. For all of you interested in a year-end round up of stats, here they are (from Jan 1 – Dec 22). Enjoy!!
Game reviewers wanted
- posted by Michael Walsh on December 16th, 2009
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This is the formal continuation of a thread I started over on the Facebook page.
The idea is to get the Reviews section off to a flying start with reviews of hardware, accessories and games. Right now, as many of you know, there’s a technical problem that’s preventing me from getting hardware over to (and back from) the US, where the majority of my reviewer volunteers are located. But the other two sections are outside this red tape so here’s what I had in mind to start off with.
1. First we form a list of reviewers (max 5 but I’m feeling a little generous right now).
2. We publish a wish-list of games you want to try.
The Acer Guy does Facebook
- posted by Michael Walsh on November 12th, 2009
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After some serious trials and tribulations – it was much easier than I thought in the end – TheAcerGuy makes its debut on Facebook. According to Facebook’s TOS, a Page has to have 25 fans before you can register the name (facebook.com/theacerguy) so the first thing I’ve got to ask you is to head off [...]
The Acer Guy glitches and updates
- posted by Michael Walsh on November 5th, 2009
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Hi everybody, This is just a quick post to let you know that over the next few days the site will be getting the promised updates and some tweaks to sort out some glitches that have surfaced. The most noticeable of which is that the links from the Forum widget on the bottom right no [...]
