Acer: We'll Overtake HP in Laptops By End of Year
Acer chairman JT Wang is extremely confident when it comes to his company's laptop department. So confident, in fact, that he expects to overtake HP by the end of the year.
"We have responded faster than our competitors to the demand in the market," the Wall Street Journal cites Wang as saying. "We are one of a very few that is able to respond to the market when demand stabilized in the latter part of the second quarter because we were prepared."
The WSJ report quotes Acer boss JT Wang as saying that, despite negative impact from the economic woes in Europe and wage increases in China, he expects the company to surpass HP to become the number one laptop vendor before the year is out.
JT Wang made his prediction to shareholders following news that in the first quarter of this year, Acer sold 9.49 million laptops worldwide, just a little more than the 9.47 million units sold by HP. Wang went on to say demand would ramp up in September, for the back-to-school season, and then again when the holidays hit.
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I'm sorry to say, but acer does not make quality laptops. they're about staying cheap and *plastic-like*. Thus, selling laptops for Acer is much easier to accomplish, as most consumers don't even know what quality means, only price.
I laugh at the notion that HP has anything to do with quality. Their laptops are crap.
Tayb speaks the truth.
Tayb speaks the truth.
I second that notion.
Good luck LOL
I've been around HP's customer service a few times, and I'm at least happy to hear someone speaking clear english. However, the product "quality" is relatively similar.
However, a friend of mine was completely rejected for a replacement hard drive a month after getting his Acer laptop. Funny how the poster behind the CEO says "we hear you"
I second that notion.
me too!
I'd take HP over Acer any day.
hp is more about quality with its laptops than acer is. I'm sorry to say, but acer does not make quality laptops. they're about staying cheap and *plastic-like*. Thus, selling laptops for Acer is much easier to accomplish, as most consumers don't even know what quality means, only price. HP's $1,000 laptops will always be better than what acer sells
Agreed. I had one die on me in 4 months. I thought I would give them another try. Died in 14 months. Ridiculous. Now I have an Acer, and happy. =)
I laugh at the notion that HP has anything to do with quality. Their laptops are crap.
I mean to quote this comment. Not the above one.
Agreed. I had one die on me in 4 months. I thought I would give them another try. Died in 14 months. Ridiculous. Now I have an Acer, and happy. =)
Just buy a Dell then, best thing you can get for the money now.
hp is more about quality with its laptops than acer is. I'm sorry to say, but acer does not make quality laptops. they're about staying cheap and *plastic-like*. Thus, selling laptops for Acer is much easier to accomplish, as most consumers don't even know what quality means, only price. HP's $1,000 laptops will always be better than what acer sells
Why should you have to spend $1000 to get a quality laptop? Are you saying less than $1000, hp laptops are worse or the same as Acer's? Hoenstly Hp and Acer are far to similar to say HP is better even by a small margin.
Why do they not do custom laptops like everyone else does? Acer? DO YOU REALLY HEAR ME?
not a fan boy, this is my very first notebook and is an ACER, I bought based on features, performance, tons of reviews and price range.
I think this is what any educated customer would do (a carefull research) before buying a new notebook (or pretty much anything else.)
with this said... after removing the all bloatware (which I was aware of) I'm very happy with my purchase.
note: for about 20 years I have always built my own PC's but given that this is my first
Notebook I wasn't confident on building my first one.
Acer: We'll Overtake HP in Laptops By End of Year
Me: yeas, and you'll beat them in the number of defects too!
Not an HP fan but Acer has a really bad track record for reliability
Just buy a Dell then, best thing you can get for the money now.
Heck no. Get a Lenovo Thinkpad. They are about the best thing on the market right now in quality.
I'll take IBM over anything.
When you comapair consumer HP and Acer laptops there realy isn't much of a difference. Complaining about how you had a hard drive or gpu that failed from one company to another doesn't say much when neither HP nor Acer made hardly any of the components in either. You do have to keep in mind that HP makes really 2 classes of laptops, consumer and business. I have always perfered the business class which have less extras but have better quality feel to them.
Do those laptop sales figures include netbooks or just actual (real) laptops?
Acer has always been pretty crappy. HP and Dell used to make quality products, but nowadays they're not much better. The best made PC laptops right now are ASUS, IMHO. They're not always the cheapest, but they're well-built and fairly priced. And they stand behind their products with a standard two year warranty (if purchased through the right distribution channel, like Xoticpc.com rather than a place like Best Buy).
It's quite possible that the HPs, Dells, and Acers roll off the same assembly lines of the same factory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compal_Electronics
ditto at whatever Tayb said. ^_^
Why should you have to spend $1000 to get a quality laptop? Are you saying less than $1000, hp laptops are worse or the same as Acer's? Hoenstly Hp and Acer are far to similar to say HP is better even by a small margin.
I've honestly never seen a $1,000+ laptop for sale by Acer, so I'm saying HP makes their high-end laptops with better parts. My dad's HDX HP laptop looks as beautiful as any nice brand Asus laptop and works awesome, but seeing tiny acer netbooks makes me cringe at the quality. but like i said, the price is what gets consumers buyin those types of laptops.
Acer mostly makes low end consumer based laptops, make cheap, sell cheap and has low profit margin per laptop. HP, Dell, Lenovo, Panasonic makes money by selling business class laptops at a higher profit margin. It is really sad for Acer which brought out brands emachines and Gateway but they barely sell them with that name. For me, I brought an acer 1410 for my wife and I am using an acer aspire one right now. I can't complain its quality for its price but they will be an low end producer unless they do something about it.
i am a proud owner of an asus laptop
I agree 100%. Acer is doing everything right at this point and they have really impressed me. I'm very happy with 7740G-6364. They've got so many different options, and for me, their main selling point was that they not only offer affordable laptops, but they also don't forget the importance of video cards for those of us who like to game. Keep up the good work Acer, you deserve the top spot. Just don't forget what got you there.
Tayb speaks the truth.
I second that notion.
and I third it too.
On my hand i have 2 HP laptops they constantly causing small issues which I need to take care all the time, not to mention the initial setup time to remove all bundlewares, most of HP own softwares are useless (taking resources and causing lags).
I have an Acer used as HTPC which 'every friend' touches and messes up, I can't say it's too great but at least it works as it means to be.
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I choose acer laptops it serves me well for years.
Real life experience:
I'm "proud" owner of acer 8001 series laptop. That's a "premium" series, mind you. In several month, some keys stopped working. Went to Saturn, sent it for repairs (they said it would take several weeks, indeed, it took them 3 weeks). And it WAS NOT repaired. Stupid frucks ran some stupid tests and replaced my HDD (which I didn't ask for and wasn't prepared to lose), but not the keyboard....
Comparing the "premium" laptop to business laptops of Lenovo/Dell (Latitude series) - well, it's not in the same league.
Never owned HP notebook. But please, stop spreading crap about superior quality of acer.
Dilbert: Are they catching up to where they will be in a year, which is unknowable, or where they are now, which is stupid?
^_^
never owned a acer laptop before, so no comment.
but so far, all my friend who own acer laptop wont have good comment on it
HP has continued to have the least reliable laptops in every evaluation i have read. i know Acer wasn't the number one but they were far better then HP last one i read.