Acer to buy Gateway. Will Be #3 PC Maker Globally

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Published on August 27, 2007 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

It's no secret that Gateway has been struggling in recent months as it tries to overtake rivals Dell and HP in the consumer PC market with little success. Acer has been in an equally dismal situation in the US market, with a market share just slightly lower than Gateway's.

This morning, Acer announced that it would be buying Gateway for the princely sum of $710 million. This will make Acer/Gateway the #3 PC manufacturer with a combined market share of 10.8% in the US. They will still trail the nearest competitor, Hewlett-Packard by nearly 13%.

This merger will also place Acer in the global #3 spot, edging out Lenovo, who is currently in talks to purchase Packard Bell. It seems like the smaller players in the PC market are going merger-crazy in an attempt to take on the big boys. Things should get interesting in the PC market in the next 12 months.

Comments

Philly0381

on Aug 27, 2007

Quality of product would probably be a better goal to achieve.

I have a Gateway, brought when they still had stores. I have liked thier computers but I believe the quality of recent products has taken a dip in an attempt to always have a new system out in fromt of the consumers, my own opinion.

Consumers will always seek out what they feel is quality.

A better nunmber to look at would be of all the computers out there, how many are off the shelf vs comsumer built. My point being they may be fighting to be #1 of only 25% of all computers.

PurrBall

on Aug 27, 2007

I have a Gateway laptop bought in late December and it is very fast and rugged. I also have two Gateway destops, one from 1999 that still works and is a server now, and the other one is two years old and still works like new.

SATYROBE

on Aug 28, 2007

to get these news plus replies. Exactly, quality, not just IN TIME for this or that. Always heard good things about ACER. Hmmh, so Gateway was good. Gee.

mschleisner

on Aug 28, 2007

Maybe then they can sell stuff that really works. Have a 19 inch flat panel monitor dated 12/2005 that isn't working, turn it on and it turns back off. Read online that there seems to be a problem with this model in general. Glad I never bought the computer itself from gateway, who knows who would have built it. Appears that you have to contact one company just to find out who built the one I have and serial number will determine that. Yuk.....And the old crappy, heavy, ugly old monitor just keeps working and working after many years of hard work.

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