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Gartner Says Worldwide PC Market Grew 15 Percent in Third Quarter of 2008 on Strength of Mini-Notebook Shipments; Industry Feeling the Impact of the Economic Crunch
Acer Moves Past HP for Top Position in EMEA Market STAMFORD, Conn., October 14, 2008 — Worldwide PC shipments reached 80.6 million units in the third quarter of 2008, a 15 percent increase from the third quarter last year, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. The mini-notebook ...
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insidehw.com — Despite fact that design of Acer Gemstone notebook series proved to be successful, some users didn’t like... light colored areas around keyboard and screen. Acer listened to users’ feedback so new series of Acer notebooks can be found with ... (more) Acer Aspire 5530G
Acer surpasses HP and Dell over worldwide notebook shipment in September
digitimes.com — Yen Ting Chen, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Thursday 9 October 2008] Acer has shipped 3.4-3.6 million notebooks... (including netbooks) in September this year, beating both Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell, according to industry sources. Acer shipped ... (more) Acer surpasses HP and Dell over worldwide notebook ...
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Home — ... .   The industry media has a bad habit of yelling "The sky is falling" when it isn't expanding by 15% a year.  If this year's sales are the same as last year's sales, people are picking pieces of sky out of their teeth.    Preliminary sales numbers indicate that PC sales were up about 15%  from the same time last year.  While it's not going to be a terribly Merry Christmas for PC sellers, even if Christmas is just plain terrible, we're still looking at sales of 75-80 million PCs.  This is not going to drive Intel out of business.  It's not even going to drive AMD out of ...

Worldwide PC Market is Growing on the Strength of Netbooks
Maximum PC — ... sector is one of the hottest areas in the PC market. Demand has been so high that, despite a weakening global economy, mini-notebooks have played a large role in worldwide PC shipments reaching 80.6 million units in the third quarter of 2008. That's a 15 percent jump from this same time last year. Ironically enough, economic woes might be exactly the reason why sales have been so good."In the North America market, the economic crunch created more interest in the sub-$500 segment," noted Mika Kitagawa , principal analyst for Gartner's Client Computing Markets group. "Because ...

PC market up 15 percent thanks to netbooks
DV Hardware — ... to historical levels, but it was still in line with the forecast.” HP maintained the No. 1 position in worldwide PC shipments in the third quarter of 2008. The company was impacted by a slower entry into the mini-notebook market, losing the top position in EMEA. Dell’s recent expansion efforts did not equate to increased market share in the third quarter. Dell primarily struggled with the professional market, especially in the EMEA and U.S. markets. More info at Gartner. PC market up 15 percent thanks to netbooks - More ...

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