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Acer aims to ship over 40 million notebooks in 2010, may surpass HP

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On October 29, 2009, 5:01 PM

Acer is quickly striding toward its goal of becoming the number one PC vendor worldwide, aiming to ship more than 30 million notebooks this year, and over 40 million next year. Acer's strongest competitor at this point is HP, which currently holds the top position for units shipped, and is also forecasted to move 40 million or more notebooks in 2010. Both companies are expected to further trounce Dell in shipments.

Acer's performance for the fourth-quarter of 2009 is somewhat uncertain. The company originally planned for shipments to grow 10% sequentially, but component shortages may affect that. Despite its efforts to prepare for shortages, Acer says supplies of optical drives, panels, hard disk drives, and graphics chips are running thin. Even if Acer lands a bit behind target in the last quarter, the first three quarters were better-than-expected, so the company will meet shipment goals for the year.

In only two years, Acer has doubled its annual notebook sales from 15.4 million in 2007, which is mostly attributed to its success in the netbook segment.

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  1. Wasnt Acer's netbook the number one netbook in market share? If there's someone who can take on HP is Acer. It's not that difficult to beat HP in quality, but it is on sheer numbers of units sold.

  2. I'd choose HP over Acer, I had one Acer desktop and it didn't last long...and they support wasn't nice or helpful. But my HP still kicking as a server.

  3. everybody is talking about sales and how to maximize the annual size but i hope that they are also gaining consumer satisfaction out of it.

    our 2 months old pc back home in philippines is an acer one and it is often got repaired and even reformat due to uncertain breakoffs of some parts. i'm not saying that acer is not good, but what i am pinpointing at is i hope alongside with their success in earning large of sales, they also consider the quality of their product.

    samething with hp, my professor in IT would not even recommend me to buy an hp laptop for he said, according to his own experience, the performance is not that efficient.

    i hope they will also realize this facts...

  4. I have own acer for almost 3 months now. I have some problems with wireless and I have to send it for repair 3 times and they have replaced the motherboard to solve the problem. But in over all it is a good laptop. I sometimes keep it running for 2 weeks straight and it did not hang on me eversince.

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