Acer prepares to initiate price war with HP

[aestarvirus]

yes, let's say the price is kind of lower than before, but how about the quality then? according to the news article, the lower price acer has cheap hardware, does this mean that the quality of the new low price acer now is not even the same as before? i personally don't like acer for the one we have back home usually got misfunctioned and always needs reformatting. and now they are compromising the quality of their product just to reach they goal to sell 40 millions of netbooks next year?

buyers now a days thinks of the quality first than the price. i don't know for some but for me, i stand on the importance of quality especially the duarability of the product...

instead having a price war, why can't they just have "quality war" or "new features war"... it will be a lot better perhaps..

 

[Rick]

instead having a price war, why can't they just have "quality war" or "new features war"... it will be a lot better perhaps..

In a society where money fuels everything, price becomes the most important factor. Quality is important to those who have the money to consider it, but the least common denominator is price and that is what what drive sales, especially at the moment.

Hopefully they won't sacrifice quality in this case, but the quality of most budget laptops isn't very good to start with. I don't think they could trim much off before they just 'fall apart'.

 

[SUSHRUKH]

The joy of capitalism and a consumers market... go Acer.

 

[guyfred26]

This is a good deal for all consumers. But Acer must also make good quality laptops for consumers to buy their product.
Previously Dell is the number 1 seller on laptops. Now HP has taken over and Acer is catching up. This will be a battle of quality and pricing, also include the features of the laptop that will sold to consumers.

 

[spikester48661]

all acer,HP,DELLS and all got a little junk software and poor support ,pooriy make. is yes to all.So if you got to get a netbook or laptop u got to live with it.

 

[bigbrat41]

Yeaaaaaa!!!!!
Been trying to decide between upgrading desktop ( MB, CPU and Mem ) or a new laptop. Guess I'll put off the decision for awhile.

 

[limpangel]

Acer was always cheaper than HP when you consider the tech specs of their products, but that doesn't mean that they provide the same quality.
For example all the Acer notebooks that I had the chance to test had cheap casing and really really crappy keyboard. When compared to their HP counterparts the slight price difference suddenly seems insignificant.

 

[Kibaruk]

I hope we (The consumers) benefit from good quality hardware and free DOS (Also Linux might get a huge lift here since it will definitely lower computer without windows expensive licenses).

Talking to friends I don't consider netbooks as disposable as others would sugest, so quality casing and hardware are not in discuss here, hope they don't discuss it either.

 

[salbar1981]

Price waaarrr !! let us, consumers, pick up the peaces

 

[nyred]

I bought a laptop about 3 months ago. I did a lot of shopping around and chose an Acer. At the time HP could not compete with Acer on price. I ended up buying the Aspire 5739 for around $650. It's good to see competition.

 

[swilllx2p]

I used to setup computers all day long for my work and honestly I thought more times than not hp computers were unbelievibly slow for the hardware that was in them. I honestly thought the computers that on average ran fastest out of the box were gateways. Any computer you get that isn't custom built will have its fair share of crapware though. Just go into the purchase looking at hardware vs price and expect to reformat when you get it..or clean up very well. But that's just my opinion.

 

[jazboy]

In point of view only reducing price on notebook/netbook won't increase much chance to compete with HP. HP is world's no 1 company in desktop/laptop selling. Acer has to adopt very aggressive marketing, open their customer center in different country, give some free give away to spread news about new ACER desktop/ laptop /netbook. I believe in this world only marketing from tv, internet only doesn't work. You have to reach to public too from mouth to mouth advertising. I also believe lot of revenue for HP comes from corporate world too. So Acer has to look for that option too. They should give some good deals for leasing the desktop / laptop to corporate world. If they gain on corporate world then lot of people will start using ACER desktop/laptop at office location. So they will slowly start getting inclined towards ACER.
This is very long process and i am not saying this is going to happen overnight but in order to get the number one spot in world market under PC selling company, there is lot to prepare and plan and start implementing.

 

[Outerspace]

aestarvirus said:
yes, let's say the price is kind of lower than before, but how about the quality then? according to the news article, the lower price acer has cheap hardware, does this mean that the quality of the new low price acer now is not even the same as before? i personally don't like acer for the one we have back home usually got misfunctioned and always needs reformatting. and now they are compromising the quality of their product just to reach they goal to sell 40 millions of netbooks next year?

buyers now a days thinks of the quality first than the price. i don't know for some but for me, i stand on the importance of quality especially the duarability of the product...

instead having a price war, why can't they just have "quality war" or "new features war"... it will be a lot better perhaps..

Nowdays there aren't many laptop makers that can afford to sell sub-par products, if there are any.
I don't think Acer or any other major manufacturers would settle for quick selling large quantities of crap products, because after all when the word spreads out (if the products are bad) it would hurt their company significantly, long term profit = 0.
It is misfortunate that you had problems with your laptop, but basically price war between them is a good thing for the consumer, just look at Ati & Nvidia.

 

[fida1989]

HP is a giant.And their products are great.So it won't be easy for Acer to defeat HP in the marketing sector.

 

[ebolamonkey3]

Now I'm really looking forward to black friday.