Acer grows US market share

LITTLE LAPTOPS are seeing a big growth spurt, with data from IDC indicating both Acer and Asus have been making giant leaps in the US notebook market lately, despite a massive slowdown in global PC shipments.

According to the numbers, Acer managed to ship between 1.4-1.5 million netbooks and notebooks in the US market in Q408.

Eeeeee maker, Asus, shipped 300,000 lappies to the yanks.

The increase in shipments means Acer now has a 16 per cent share of the US portable market, the third largest. Asus claims three per cent, but reckons it will increase its share by flogging Eeees in Wal-Mart by the second half of 2009.

Acer's big boost seems to come at Dell's expense, with the top US computer maker's shipments slipping eight per cent year on year, in what can only be described as a year direct from hell, as Acer's shipments saw a whopping 57 per cent rise from the same quarter in 2007.

This brings Acer's 2008 grand total of shipped notebooks to over four million in the US, still behind, but creeping up on Dell's 8.8 million units and HP's 8.77 million units.
So it would appear the big gains are actually being made little by little, especially when it comes to form factor. µ