Acer makes strides to take over the world

Author: Phil Cogar
Published: 29th October 2007
Comments (10) Stumble
Gianfranco Lanci's good looks may have helped Acer chalk up a $90 million profit. I'd buy that for one dollar.

Gianfranco Lanci's good looks may have helped Acer chalk up a $90 million profit. I'd buy that for one dollar.

Acer has lowered it horns and is charging the competition. The company has posted a $90 million profit for the 2007 third quarter and very likely could now be the third largest computer manufacturer in the world.

In part, the growth of Acer has come thanks to the purchase of Gateway and PackardBell earlier this year. The company reportedly paid $710 million for Gateway but has been bucking a pending lawsuit from investors who seem to think that they weren't paid enough.

Gianfranco Lanci, President of Acer Inc, predicts that Acer will see a 10-20 percent sequential growth in revenues and profit and a 3-4 percent growth in market share. Acer currently holds 8.1 percent of the market but that could change as soon as the Gateway purchase is finalised.

Acer also predicts that the company will ship 25 million products with 70-80 percent being notebook computers.

No word yet on if Lanci thinks the company could have had a larger profit if Microsoft's Windows Vista wasn't part of the lineup.

Nearing the top of the list for the largest computer manufacturer in the world, does Acer actually make good kit or would you recommend your mum to buy something else? Leave your thoughts over in the forums.
Quote UncertainGod 29th October 2007, 13:08
Acer do make decent laptops, never looked at there other kit as it would be a cold day in hell before I would buy a pre-built desktop PC.
Quote Matt_117 29th October 2007, 14:16
The notebooks are nice and sleek to look at, unlike the performance after a re-install of the OS...
Quote jswilson64 29th October 2007, 18:15
I won't buy another one. My Aspire 5100-series is dog-slow, and out of the box wouldn't even work right half the time. I had to remove the Acer power-management software and install Notebook Hardware Control before it'd quit freezing up. It had something to do with the display brightness settings. Anyway, to ship a product that's crippled by its own software is unforgiveable (as is NewEgg's notebook return policy, but that's another story).
Quote airchie 29th October 2007, 20:05
If Acer took some of their profits and invested it in decent customer support I would be happy for them... :/
Quote FR34K 29th October 2007, 20:30
Acer, last I hear, is or has bought out Gateway, which means Acer = Acer, Gateway, and eMachine
Quote HourBeforeDawn 29th October 2007, 23:26
okay Acer low-end to about mid-range laptop/desktop are complete garbage BUT their upper mid-range to high-end laptop/desktop are pretty nice and even better when you look at the price to hardware ratio your getting the best bang for your buck compared to a lot of the other competitors so over not to shabby.
Quote Duste 30th October 2007, 03:42
'Sif bring my mum in to it. :(
Quote Cupboard 30th October 2007, 10:00
After taking 3 months to fix a hard drive under warranty, I wouldn't recommend them to anyone (the reason it took so long was because they kept on breaking the screen!)
Quote ou7blaze 30th October 2007, 18:55
Wouldn't recommend Acer, always had bad experiences with em.

Had the UGLIEST beige pc cases anyone could design aswell :p
Quote Xen0phobiak 5th November 2007, 11:19
I work at a computer shop where we used to sell lots of acer products, but now we sell hardly any acer's as we've had too many problems with them. My dad has/had an Aspire 5101AWLMI that he bought in feb, and its spent about 2 months away for repair in total since he's had it. Several times they just ran the restore disc when it had serious hardware/electrical problems. I wouldn't reccomend their laptops, but their turnaround on desktops is pretty good, and they do some nice monitors.
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