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Toshiba takes over Acer's spot as #3 laptop manufacturer

By Justin Mann

On June 22, 2006, 4:18 PM

Toshiba and Acer are butting heads as Toshiba narrowly takes Acer's place as the #3 laptop provider in the world. With 2.24 Million laptops shipped in the first quarter of this year, their focus on low-cost machines has paid off as they saw substantial gains in marketshare. This puts them at a 12.3% total share of the market, and you can probably guess as to who makes up the #1 and #2 positions. Toshiba is very happy with the results.

Unspecified contract manufacturers for Toshiba hinted that the Japan vendor has begun pushing low-cost notebook models in the Japan market, the region where Toshiba currently has its best sales. The US and Asia-Pacific regions are the Japan vendor's second- and third-largest markets, respectively, the makers added. The low-price strategy enabled Toshiba to enjoy a sequential sales increase of 83% in the Japan notebook market in the first quarter of 2006, the makers said.
Acer will doubtless try to find a way to make that up, which only means good things for people buying laptops. More than just on-par for prices compared to a desktop, laptop sales continue to grow fast, while desktop sales fall.

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  1. June 22, 2006 5:24 PM
    canadian said:
    AS soon as laptops are under $500 CDN, and still powerfull enough to game, I will get one, lol.
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  2. June 22, 2006 5:30 PM
    DragonMaster said:
    [quote] AS soon as laptops are under $500 CDN, and still powerfull enough to game, I will get one, lol.[/quote]Or when we'll see a laptop with the same specs as a desktop computer for the same price. (But with the price of an LCD, keyb and batteries added to this & w/o the whole price of an expensive PSU and case)
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