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Acer chairman JT Wang today dismissed rumors that the company was planning to acquire Gateway in order to strengthen its competitive edge against Dell and Hewlett Packard (HP) in the US market.

According to the rumors, Acer is in talks with Gateway about acquiring the third largest PC vendor in the US.

Wang revealed that some investors had suggested Acer do so, but he maintained that buying Gateway would not be a necessary step for the company to establish itself in the US market.

Judging from the company’s present strategies, deployments and executions, Wang said Acer should continue seeing strong growth in the US market on its own, without having to acquire a rival.

Admitting that Acer will see pressure in 2006, Wang however expressed confidence that the company will be able to beat its financial forecasts for the year.

Sources with Taiwan’s notebook makers commented that the rumors about Acer acquiring Gateway stemmed from Dell’s and HP’s recent active developments in the European markets, where Acer is the number one notebook vendor. Dell and HP are hoping that the pressure they are giving Acer in Europe will slow down Acer’s development in the US, the sources remarked.
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pr0digal jenius

but you see...I sell all of the above for a living, and I'll sell HP's and gateways all day before reccomending an Acer....they work fine, yes, but product quality isn't there yet.

Cheap parts [lots of Celerons] and cheap shoddy housings/cases make for a undesirable product, regardless of price...especially with the rate of returns we have on Acer laptops [I bet one in every ten we sell comes back]