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Acer bids to raise prices after levelling inventory mountain

Acer has said it expects ASPs to continue to climb this year as the market shifts to ultrabooks – even as the vendor finally levels the inventory mountain that bedevilled it last year. The shock discovery of "abnormalities" in inventory stored in freight forwarders' warehouses led to a massive shakeup at the firm. A "sales …

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

The race to the bottom

Acer wakes up to the fact that the race to bottom is not a god idea

Facepalm

Except - the fatal flaw in their prediction...?

Oh dear! Nobody has any money to spend on these lovely shiny shinies, due to the financial melt-down and massive job losses!

Ooer...

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Anonymous Coward

Apple seem to be doing OK

Angel

Vizio is here now

Vizio just slaughtered the TV market a while back with cut rate prices. Now they're coming for PCs and laptops. And people don't want PCs as much any more anyway. Now that we have tablets we don't use the thing often enough to pay for a nice one.

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