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IDC: Global PC Market Grew 22.4% In Second Quarter 2010

July 15, 2010

Accord­ing to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker (press release) the global PC mar­ket grew 22.4% Y/Y to 81.5 mil­lion units in the sec­ond quar­ter of 2010. Actual growth was slightly less than the fore­casted growth 22.9% Y/Y. Desktop PC ship­ments exceeded expec­ta­tions while portable PCs came less than fore­casted. IDC points this growth to a [...]

Acer to Ship 3 Million Handsets in 2010

April 19, 2010

Acer is quite opti­mistic about its Android-based Liquid smart­phone (read Acer Liquid A1: Snapdragon Android Smartphone). In June dur­ing Computex 2010 the com­pany plans to unveil a many new mod­els. JT Wang, chair­man of Acer, stated the company’s Smart Handheld Business Group (SHBG), which was formed after the pur­chase of E-Ten Information Systems in 2008, [...]

Display News 2010.04.16

April 16, 2010

Asus 17-inch 3D Notebook: Asustek’s 17-inch 3D note­book PC will launch in Q3’10. Chimei Innolux Corporation (CMI), LG Display (LGD) and Samsung are com­pet­ing for the oppor­tu­nity to sup­ply 3D pan­els for the project. This goes with­out say­ing: Asustek’s deci­sion will be based on the qual­ity of the 3D dis­plays. I sure hope so since [...]

Notebooks: Frameless Displays

February 10, 2010

Thick bezels are ugly. I think Taiwan-based inte­gra­tors and LCD man­u­fac­tur­ers agree. Taiwan’s major note­book PC ODMs are devel­op­ing mod­els sport­ing frame­less dis­plays or dis­plays with very thin bezels. The com­pa­nies in par­tic­u­lar are Foxconn and Chimei Innolux, Compal Electronics and Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), Quanta Computer and AU Optronics (AUO). Corning’s Gorilla glass will [...]

Compal: 3.9M Notebook PC Shipments in December

December 25, 2009

Compal Electronics expects note­book PC ship­ments to hit 3.8M to 3.9M units in December thanks to strong demand for Acer and Toshiba net­books. Monthly peak was reached in November at 4.5M units for Compal. Q1’10 ship­ments are expected to drop 10-15% Q/Q. Source: DIGITIMES

Acer Aspire 1820PTZ Convertible Notebook Reviewed

December 23, 2009

The Aspire 1820PTZ from Acer wants to be a Jack of all trades, but ends up being not really good at any­thing. The dis­play is ter­ri­ble, espe­cially in por­trait mode. Multitouch is so-so. And why would you get a con­vert­ible note­book PC if those two things are bad? SO SO: If want to be bored out [...]

Acer Liquid A1: Unboxing Video Review

December 9, 2009

Acer’s Liquid A1 is cur­rently ship­ping in the UK but only in white at the moment. TechnoloShree has an unbox­ing video review. Source: YouTube via Engadget

Acer Liquid A1: Snapdragon Android Smartphone

December 8, 2009

£330 (about US$537) is the price you’ll pay to get the Liquid A1 from Acer and if you’re in the UK. The Liquid A1 sports a 768Mhz Snapdragon 8250 CPU and runs Google’s Android 2.0 (Donut). The Acer smart­phone is equipped with a 5 megapixel auto-focus cam­era, a 3.5-inch TFT LCD with capac­i­tive touch technology [...]

HP #1, Acer #2, Dell #3

December 4, 2009

iSup­pli announced word­wide PC ship­ment results for the third quar­ter and HP is on top with 19.9% mar­ket share grow­ing 7% Y/Y to 15.9 mil­lion units. Acer over­took Dell for the #2 spot grow­ing 16.6% Y/Y to 10.7 mil­lion unit ship­ments and grab­bing a 13.4% mar­ket share. Dropping to #3 was Dell with ship­ments declining [...]

Dell Notebook Sales Continue Drop

November 27, 2009

Dell is his­tor­i­cally strong in the enter­prise mar­ket. The enter­prise mar­ket is his­tor­i­cally weak in the fourth quar­ter. IDC expects Dell’s note­book PC sales to con­tinue its drop in the fourth quar­ter. Other rea­sons include com­pe­ti­tion from Lenovo for China’s enter­prise cus­tomers. In other geo­graphic regions Acer and Samsung‘s offer­ings have seen strong ship­ments to [...]

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