Acer’s reliability rating… What do you think?
- posted by Michael Walsh on October 17th, 2009
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While I was writing that last article on Acer overtaking Dell to become the world’s second largest PC vendor, I scrolled down the comments to the Engadget article and came across this one from Dest.
OK, it’s his opinion and as he says in his post it’s subjective, but I think this comment needs to be published and maybe discussed a little further but The Acer Guy readers.
Acer overtakes Dell as world’s number two PC vendor
- posted by Michael Walsh on October 17th, 2009
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Who’d have thought I’d be sitting here in my creative bunker writing this post so soon after my last one?
Well, obviously Gianfranco Lanci did as he’s been dropping hints everywhere.
If you take a look at this chart from those number crunchers over at Gartner, you’ll notice that something very important has happened:
0.1%
- posted by Michael Walsh on April 28th, 2009
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Hands up… How many of you laughed when Gianfranco Lanci said Acer would soon become the world’s second-biggest PC brand? It’s OK. I’m sure many people inside Acer thought the same, although they wouldn’t if they’d actually met the guy.
There’s an interesting article published on 15th April by Gartner that shows just how close we are to reaching that goal.
“Dell and Acer finished the quarter in a virtual tie for the No. 2 position in the worldwide PC market; they are separated by just 0.1 percent points”
Dell now selling the Acer Aspire One???
- posted by Michael Walsh on February 11th, 2009
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Nope, but it’s a pretty lame attempt at duping customers into thinking so.
Straight from the depths of black hat marketing comes this gem straight from Twitter (thanks eam0).
I’ve seen some shifty moves in the past but this one really does go beyond the acceptable. I’m wondering if/how Google/Dell/Acer will react to it since it clearly violates Google’s Terms and Conditions which, for precision, I’m posting here:
21st of January – the quiet before the storm?
- posted by Michael Walsh on January 21st, 2008
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There’s a bit of a lull over at The Acer Guy HQ. Guess that’s the price for working flat out over the entire Christmas period. The buzz here at the moment is all about the kickoff event in a week’s time. If you ask me I think they should re-invent the name and bring it [...]
