Face facts here – the notebook market is extremely fluid. The standard product life cycle for notebooks is approximately three to four months, at which point the next generation of notebook comes through. Sometimes a whole range reaches the end of its lifecycle, and replaced in that market segment by a new ‘family’ of notebook, which has usually spent about a year in R&D, with focus placed upon enhanced capability, reliability and desirability. I would also suggest that the numbers speak for themselves, and I can assure you that Acer would not have captured the number one slot in the UK low-end notebook market if they had a dog of a product. I speak from the standpoint of a Product Manager who has been responsible for ranging, marketing and selling notebooks, tablets, and pc’s from Acer, Sony, Toshiba, and HP, so I guess you could say I do actually know what I’m talking about, rather than just going off searching for other people’s (biased) quotes and posting them up in an attempt to look credible.

of course I’m biased, and you’re not?, everyone has their biases old boy. Acer, like almost everyone else, does not make their own notebook.. most of the name brands create contracts with ODMs such as Asus, Quanta, Uniwill, Compal, etc (virtually all Taiwanese, and some Chinese and Korean companies) who design and create the notebooks, which are then sold under their respective OEMs. For example Fujitsu-Siemen’s Amilo lines are Uniwill models, while most of HPs and Dell’s upper line models (i.e Latitudes) are Asus and Quanta. Asus has been known to design notebooks for high end companies such as Apple and gaming companies such as Voodoo.. plus they are alot cheaper from to buy directly, which is why i would reccomend them.

of course, I guess you are credible since your job seems to be exactly like the other person I quoted, but differ in the fact that you’re Steve Young, the man who fancies spitfires and old women.
As for me trying to be credible? well that’s as credible as me being the world’s best porn star. but at least i know better enough to accuse some one else of being “bias”