Acer claims top laptop spot
Number one
Thursday, 9 October 2008, 10:30
TAIWANESE OUTFIT Acer is putting it about that it sold more laptops than both Dell and HP during September.
The firm is telling its mates in Taiwan that it flogged between 3.4-3.6 million notebooks during the month. That will put it ahead of both Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell for the first time.
The firm is gagging to become the world's "Number One" notebook maker.
It told Digitimes it shipped over 1.2 million Aspire One netbooks as well as 2.2-2.3 million notebooks in September. And these numbers will put it above HP and Dell, it reckons. ยต
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quote "One Chinese outfit promises to sell a made-entirely-in-China netbook for $98"

aren't all laptops, desktops (bar the CPU), ipods, everything else entirely made in China now.....
ASUS reported 700k eee's. Acer reports 1200k AspireOnes. One Chinese outfit promises to sell a made-entirely-in-China netbook for $98... and others probably total several times these two in total and almost half are running GNU/Linux...

That's a Hell of a lot of new GNU/Linux users in a month. We could double use of GNU/Linux on the desktop in a single year if this keeps up. Aren't emerging markets sweet?
I sell AspireOne netbooks, much to my chagrin, and I sell almost exclusively the Windows based ones. Nobody who comes through my store wants the Linux ones.. so calm down Linux fanboy.. don't make assumptions.
If everything is "Made in China", does this mean that if Chinese dock workers went on strike then we could see a more sever world financial crisis than the current one?

If all our manufacturing is in one place, doesn't that one place hold us all to ransom?

China - makes all our products.

Middle East - has all the oil we need for transport.

The West - errr, what do we have? Armies that cannot beat some yocals in Afghanistan.

I'm moving to China!