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.

I second that notion.
I second that notion.
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"
me too!
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 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. =)
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 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.
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
Heck no. Get a Lenovo Thinkpad. They are about the best thing on the market right now in quality.
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).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compal_Electronics