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Gartner Research shows Mac sales at 24 percent in US, more than industry average

Published on: 22nd July, 2010

A report recently published by Gartner Research says that US Mac sales in the second quarter have reached 24 percent, which means 1.7 million units. This is outpacing the average of the industry. Gartner analysis places the domestic market share of Apple at 9.8 percent, which is higher than the 8.8 percent estimated by IDC.
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Apple credited with 8.8 percent US computer share and is closer to Acer

Published on: 18th July, 2010

Apple is closer to Acer’s third place in the United States computer market, as IDC estimates. Apple claims now 8.8 percent of market share and is ranked fourth, after a growth situated above the average year-over-year rate. It has 1.62 million Macs. Acer is third but has dropped from 12.3 percent to only 11 percent. [...]

Acer will launch its 7- and 10-inch Android tablets in fall

Published on: 18th July, 2010

Acer will begin to sell its 7-inch tablet as well as the previously not mentioned 10-inch version in the fall, according to sources from the notebook industry. As expected, ARM hips will be used and Android will be the operating system. The company is now negotiating with cellular providers the marketing and eventual subsidies for [...]

Acer and ASUS may have new netbooks only after mid-August

Published on: 14th July, 2010

PC makers from Taiwan Acer and ASUS currently wait to sell off current netbook inventories prior to ship new products, says a recent report. Unnamed sources from the industry told to Digitimes that this would not happen until mid of August. The companies are waiting to see the reaction of the market before committing to [...]

Acer cancels the Aspire One 532g with Ion 2 processor

Published on: 21st June, 2010

Acer has canceled the Aspire One 532g netbook. It would have been the first to use second-generation Ion-based graphics from NVIDIA but the company has canceled it worldwide. There is no explanation given so far, but driver issues are incriminated. Optimus graphics switching has been used to flip to Intel or Ion graphics for either [...]

Apple – the only US computer assembler to beat industry average

Published on: 11th June, 2010

Apple has been the only American assembler of computers to beat the average for growth of the industry in the beginning of 2010. With Macs climbing 32.4 percent year-over-year, Apple gained 3.4 percent market share of total computer sales worldwide, which means the seventh place. Hewlett Packard and Dell have grown slower than the 22.7 [...]

Acer and ASUS to conquer the European market

Published on: 28th May, 2010

Acer and ASUS have grabbed large shares of the western European computer market during the first months of this year. Acer has managed to be ranked first in the continent, first quarter figures indicating 23.4 percent, while its Taiwanese rival ASUS is in fourth place with 7.9 percent versus the previous 4.8 percent. This data [...]

Acer will not show Chrome OS devices at next Computex show

Published on: 19th May, 2010

Acer has denied rumors about presenting Chrome OS devices at the Computex show next month. The company claimed there was no short-term plan for the launch of a netbook using the desktop operating system of Google. Although Acer acknowledged Chrome OS was a good product, but was not ready to assume any plans of using [...]

Wi-LAN sues Acer, Apple, Dell, LG and others over Bluetooth patent violation

Published on: 20th April, 2010

Wi-LAN has continued its practices of suing a large number of companies of the technology industry instead of using business as an argument. The suit includes major electronics manufacturers like Apple, Acer, Dell, Sony, LG, Toshiba and other 12 companies that would violate a patent related to Bluetooth use. The Canadian-based Wi-LAN accuses the above [...]

Leaked specs for Acer’s new Timeline version

Published on: 21st March, 2010

Acer may soon release the so long awaited version of the company’s 11.6-inch Timeline notebook with an Intel Core i5 CPU. The new portable, called the 1830T, retains, from its predecessor, a display resolution of 1366×768, the full size keyboard, as well as a similar weight. This new variant is a little thinner than the [...]

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