Acer gains ground on HP as ASUS bumps Toshiba out of top five global PC vendors

Did you know that since the inception of the great and glorious PC industry the world leader in shipments has always been an American company? The biggest threat to this hometown hegemony right now looks to be coming from Taiwan, as Gartner's latest figures show significant growth from both Acer and ASUS, with the latter improving its global shipments by a stonking 78.5% between this time last year and now. Acer's ascent was a more modest 31.6%, though the whole PC market has taken a big uptick from 2009 with a 20.7% average growth in shipments. That's meant that even though HP and Dell have registered double-digit growth, both lost market share over that time. Toshiba has similarly had a strong showing, but ASUS' exponential growth has relegated the Japanese company to sixth in the world. That Toshibasus merger isn't looking like such a bad idea now, is it Toshiba?

[hostbot Posted Jul 16th 2010 3:50AM]

Ehhhhh...

[TheCake Posted Jul 16th 2010 4:30AM]

@hostbot I want the pc in the picture :D

[Firewave Posted Jul 16th 2010 5:41AM]

@TheCake

It does look cool. Just wish its color wasn't so horrendous

[McKirf Posted Jul 16th 2010 8:05AM]

@hostbot

yeah but Acer bought TI's notebook line which made Acer what it is today, especially since they STILL use the same brands that they did way back when.

[wemustcontrolpeople Posted Jul 16th 2010 3:55AM]

I'm just waiting for that PC to transform and start kicking some a$$.

[localhost81 Posted Jul 16th 2010 10:45AM]

@wemustcontrolpeople Don't buy a Macbook then.

[hellosven Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:01PM]

@wemustcontrolpeople
more competition overseas means driven down prices in the states so it's more bang for your buck.

btw, that orange desktop? very expensive..

[gizmoguru Posted Jul 16th 2010 3:57AM]

Wonder what they might name the company if the merger happens, Toshus? or Ashiba? LOL

[barkotron Posted Jul 16th 2010 3:57AM]

Holy moly that's an ugly box. Did someone put one of the new Transformers through a car crusher?

[lazyfrogg Posted Jul 16th 2010 3:59AM]

That computer looks sooooooo awesome!!!
Where can I get it?

[oringal Posted Jul 16th 2010 4:01AM]

its called the acer predator

[Massive Poop Posted Jul 16th 2010 4:24AM]

@oringal Ohhhhhh Predator, it's the child pornography edition.

[Ignoramus Posted Jul 17th 2010 1:41PM]

@Massive Poop BRBFBI

[oringal Posted Jul 16th 2010 4:00AM]

Acer Sniper FTW !

[ba8 Posted Jul 16th 2010 4:13AM]

Why does this not surprise me?

[Bozster Posted Jul 16th 2010 4:15AM]

And they wonder why people drool over Apple stuff like crazy..

This thing is awful.. and what's tragic is that none of these tech companies get industrial design.

Awful.

[Ducman69 Posted Jul 16th 2010 4:27AM]

@Bozster

Drooling masses? I don't think so. Speaking of marketshare, Apple's share isn't even close to the top five, and the gap between 1st and 2nd and the rest is pretty massive.

Apple has high mindshare, not marketshare, thanks to gobs of free media publicity. When Jobs poops, there's breaking news about the consistency, speculation about the corn count, and why we should all be excited. But the majority don't buy into the hype and shop elsewhere.

[einhanderkiller Posted Jul 16th 2010 4:38AM]

@Bozster
Yes, let's base the entirety of PC designs off of a single product.

The Lian Li PC-9F is nicer than any desktop Apple has ever made.

[teamlouish Posted Jul 16th 2010 4:48AM]

@Ducman69 Steve jobs popping! sounds like something that you'd hear them talking about at www.smellypoop.com

Your poop consistency quote about jobs would generate some heat over there.

[PBB Posted Jul 16th 2010 9:03AM]

@Bozster
Industrial design? Since when is making a phone out of GLASS industrial design? The unibody laptops are nice, but dent like crazy and the iMac is nice if you only have 2 USB devices. You make it sound like apple products are resilient where in reality, none of them can take a 1 foot drop.

[n11 Posted Jul 16th 2010 4:43AM]

Holy sh!t... that case looks like it could *kill* you... Sooooo hawt, forget simplistic aluminum limited fruit designs. This is the way to do it.

[Hotrod Posted Jul 16th 2010 5:25AM]

Awesome photoshop, very low key.

[blckthng Posted Jul 16th 2010 6:26AM]

Quick question. Does that beautiful case exist?

[rstoplabe14 Posted Jul 16th 2010 9:42AM]

@blckthng
Yes, its an Acer Predator
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883103274&Tpk=Acer%20Predator

Its actually not that expensive either

[sk1wbw Posted Jul 16th 2010 7:27AM]

Yeah man, this case is simply awesome. If you're a 14 year old boy who lives in his bedroom and spends his parent's money to buy flashy computers to play games on.

[Andie Posted Jul 16th 2010 8:54AM]

@sk1wbw
Or if you're a 28-year old guy with a KTM enduro bike in his carage.

[Parody Posted Jul 16th 2010 7:33AM]

It look like a transformer raped a PC case.

[RSX Posted Jul 16th 2010 7:45AM]

Does Toshiba even make desktop PC? or just laptops ... o.O

[chris2 Posted Jul 16th 2010 8:06AM]

hideous.

[Peytral Posted Jul 16th 2010 8:41AM]

ASUS FOR THE WIN YEAAAHHHHH!!!!

[Ignoramus Posted Jul 17th 2010 1:46PM]

@Peytral Yess i

[Sgt Beavis Posted Jul 16th 2010 9:18AM]

I'm not at all surprised. ASUS has made strides in customer service and quantum leaps in quality over the last few years.

HP, not so much.

[rstoplabe14 Posted Jul 16th 2010 9:47AM]

Thats what happens when American companies get comfortable and just make cheaper and cheaper products to increase their margins, while foreign companies increase quality and customer service to fight for the loyalty of the American customer. This is also the reason why the big 3 failed. (I love the irony on the new Buick Regal commercial, a German engineered american car )

[spodi Posted Jul 16th 2010 10:43AM]

@rstoplabe14
and the curious thing is that the systems are made by the same OEMs.
It is all perception and how the company handles the customer after the sale.

[rstoplabe14 Posted Jul 16th 2010 11:28AM]

@spodi
The OEMs have different levels of quality themselves. After all its the ODMs, or the companies themselves (HP, Dell) that design it, and its up to the OEMs (Foxconn, Quanta etc) to make an item to those specs, so if I design a product to use a wire of lower quality for example, or thinner plastics, or plastics where metal or metal alloys should have gone instead, thats the designers fault, not the OEMs for fulfilling that design. Now, there are some aspects of quality where the OEM plays a very important role in (Fit and finish) but the bigger OEMs are good with that.

[Jaylittles531 Posted Jul 16th 2010 9:55AM]

GOOD! Toshiba sucks!

[dyinman Posted Jul 16th 2010 10:56AM]

Call me a fanboy - I friggin LOVE Asus hardware! Too bad it's foreign...

[bathellfire Posted Jul 16th 2010 11:03AM]

Looks cool. Gamers will love this case. Wont work for corporate environment... or would it?... hm...

[vanglorious Posted Jul 16th 2010 11:22AM]

It looks like a particularly fruity-coloured Fiat Punto after scrappage.

[koneill Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:24PM]

@ Engadget "...the world leader in shipments has always been an American company?"

Does it really matter, when everything these "American" companies make is actually made in Asia?

[Evoss Posted Jul 16th 2010 1:37PM]

Acer will be best

[travis8214 Posted Jul 16th 2010 2:12PM]

that is one fugly case

[3dpenguin Posted Jul 16th 2010 2:50PM]

I'm amazed Toshiba has been in the top 5 for as long as they have, they hardly sell desktops and server equipment anymore, and most of their business is selling component hardware and laptops.

[allenrotstein Posted Jul 16th 2010 4:12PM]

That is one ugly ass case! Eww!