{"id":3405,"date":"2010-08-25T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2022-12-30T15:29:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T20:29:40","slug":"acer-beats-dell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/acer-beats-dell\/","title":{"rendered":"Acer Beats Dell in PC Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Acer<\/a>I recently wrote<\/a> about the troubles at Dell<\/a>. Here is more proof of the downturn at Dell<\/a>.\u00a0 BusinessInsider<\/em><\/a> is reporting<\/a> that Acer<\/a> (ACEIY<\/a>), the Taiwanese computer maker has posted another solid quarter of global PC sales, according to new data <\/a>from Gartner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Acer<\/a>The Asian and emerging markets drove Acer’s growth. It has also successfully ridden the explosion in netbook demand. The netbook market is dry<\/a>ing up now<\/a>, though thanks to Apple’s iPad<\/a>. This could give Dell an opening if it can execute well (a big if lately) and Taiwan-based\u00a0Acer has problems cracking the mainland China<\/a> market.<\/p>\n

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Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gartner says Acer outsold Dell in the latest battle of the PC wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3240,244,101,35,216,85,168,296,21,1157],"class_list":["post-3405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","tag-3240","tag-acer","tag-apple","tag-china","tag-dell","tag-gartner","tag-hp","tag-ipad","tag-pc","tag-taiwan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t