ACER

Geez, rather than use a bunch of lousy brand names, they just need to release some really, good, appealing, well made products. They already have the low prices down. The Aspire One was a good start. My first Acer purchase and I couldnt' be more pleased. The 6 cell, XP, 120gb version is excellent and appears stylish and well made. If they would do this more often, eventually, their image would change....

If they aim to become like Dell, they got to improve their after-sales services. Unlike desktop, most consumer wont bother opening up their laptop to troubleshoot for problems. If they really think laptop sales will contribute more to their revenue, they got to act fast.

Acer have bad reputation as far as reliability goes, and if they aim to change that, they got to change that fast. That doesn't stop me from buying Acer Gemstone, and Im glad to said it serve my purpose.

...what the heck is hokian anyways??? Mandaring and Taiwanese are the two official languages...and Taiwanese is just a different dialect of Chinese, which there are hundreds of... Anyways, I think Acer should keep making great netbooks at a low price like the lightweight 6-cell, 120gigHDD, 1gigRAM, Acer Aspire One which I got for 400$. These things are selling extremely quickly because they are perfect portable computers for the average user or notetaking for college students - small, lightweight, good battery, and more than enough for basic office/surfing. For the price of a 'cheap' 1600$ ish gaming/workhorse laptop you can get a decent desktop plus this as a portable computer. 

Now if only they could make a netbook like the Acer Aspire One that could play a game like Crysis on medium? Maybe in a few years...Right now, just gonna stick to Office and StarCraft on mine.

I live in the US, and bought an Acer Laptop in June of '07 (Aspire 5050 series). I have to say, the quality of it is surprisingly good, and any repairs I have had to do on it have been quite easy (power port broke). Based on my experiences with it, I would have to say Acer is my favorite laptop brand.

I should also note, that I tend to be a bit rough on my laptops, and my Acer is holding up better than the HP it replaced.

...Because Mandarin is taught in Taiwan's public schools, and the TV newscasts are in Mandarin.

(They'll all be speaking Mandarin outside of their houses sooner or later anyways so it doesn't matter)

That would be my wild ass guess. And technophobic. That's right if you mean we don't know how to operate that yoke, called an ipo, ipoo, cant remember, need to ask my brand-aware son for help.

where did they get the idea that INQ-readers have any money to spend on gear!?