RSSAcer eyes future desktop systems, including game machine
By Jacqueline Emigh | Published March 13, 2008, 10:14 AM
Over the next year, Taiwan-based notebook PC maker Acer will start to produce desktop units under the Acer brand...and a senior Acer official told BetaNews yesterday that a PC-based game machine is one of the ideas being bandied about.
NEW YORK CITY (BetaNews) - Right now, the Acer brand name is still equated with PC notebooks only, despite Acer's acquisition of Gateway. But in an interview with BetaNews at its press event on Wednesday, Acer's senior vice president, James T. Wong, said that his company has a game machine in mind, and that it will be based on "open standards."
"If you look at most of the other game machines that are out there right now -- Nintendo's, the Xbox -- they are 'closed' and proprietary systems," he told BetaNews.
Wong said that, beyond "openness," all of the Acer-branded systems being eyed right now, including the game machine, are envisioned as offering new and innovative form factors and applications.
In addition to its future Acer-branded desktop PCs, however, Acer will also provide desktop systems under the Gateway name, as well as under the eMachines and Packard Bell brands inherited through the Gateway buyout, according to the senior VP. The Acer, Gateway, eMachines, and Packard Bell desktop systems will each incorporate two separate line-ups, one for consumers and the other for SMBs (small to medium-sized businesses), he said.
During a press conference attended by BetaNews earlier on Wednesday, which focused mainly on Acer's notebook PC products and strategy, officials cited Gateway's expertise in desktop systems as a big reason for buying that company.
But Wong told BetaNews that Acer had already been making desktop PCs for other vendors, anyway, with desktop systems constituting some 30 percent of Acer's huge OEM business.
Acer, though, will not be offering either desktop or notebook PCs geared to enterprise use, at least for now, according to the executive.
"You need different kinds of resources for [enterprise systems], and we don't have those kinds of resources right now," he told BetaNews.
I work at futureshop in canada and we have been carrying acer desktops for about a year and a half
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|acer, gateway, emachines... are all junk. i will never buy any products from these comanys again.
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|in fact that all remind me of a pontiac fiero with a ferrari car kit
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|*yawn*
Why does someone always feel the need to jump into a topic and proclaim the product in question "junk"?
Show me a better $700 lappy with a full-size keyboard, 17" monitor, an NVIDIA 7000 GPU, and 1GB of RAM.
http://www.microcenter.c...html?product_id=0278965
Right, didn't think so.
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|Amen.
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|I've had incredibly good luck with an eMachines desktop computer that was given to me 2 years ago. It's not like eMachines or Gateway of old. However, I continue to hear bad about the Acer brand of computers.
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|well simpaly because i have used em ... alot.
mainly gateway, who owns eMachines. i delt with over 150 gateway desktops for two years, they used old tech, cheap parts, and worthless support. on avrage i would be replacing hardware atleast 5-10 a month. Acer, i have never had an acer pc or monitor that hasent had issues.
yes... i think they are junk
there is a reason its only $700
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|*laughs*
That's wonderful. You've provided anecdotal "evidence" that either the one's you had sucked ... or you do. There are others here who have posted the *exact* opposite experience.
there is a reason its only $700
If it works, which it does, and has features other laptops do not have that cost twice what this one does, which it does...
That "reason" would be??
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|we were using gate pc's scince 486 dx2 66 were concidered top of the line. back then gateway was great. infact i still have a few gateway pentium 75 mhz pc's around. there products didnt start going downhill untill they bought eMachines and starting selling there pc throught the big box stores like bestbuy.
now ya you can call me names if that make you feel better... but that dosnt change the fact that they are junk.
that reason would be more then likely made with the cheepest parts avalable.
if that note book has twice the features as one that cost twice as much, you didnt look vary hard.
as far as the other posting the oppisite... well good for them, i hope they continue to have a good experiance... but i doubt they well
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|now ya you can call me names if that make you feel better... but that dosnt change the fact that they are junk.
Funny. I never called you a name. Nor do I agree that your description of these devices as "junk" is, as you say, Fact.
Perhaps you should take a glance in the dictionary to find the difference between "Fact" and "Opinion".
that reason would be more then likely made with the cheepest parts avalable.
You imply cheap=bad. It does not.
if that note book has twice the features as one that cost twice as much, you didnt look vary hard.
Then answer my original question. Find me a better one that doesn't cost twice as much. Remember, 17" widescreen and full-size keyboard. Good luck with that.
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|"Funny. I never called you a name. Nor do I agree that your description of these devices as "junk" is, as you say, Fact"
"That's wonderful. You've provided anecdotal "evidence" that either the one's you had sucked ... or you do."
one persons fact is anothers opinion...
its fact to me.
as far as finding anothe notebook
here... took all of 2 min.
here is a dell... actuly cost less
http://www.dell.com/cont...bsd&~tab=bundlestab
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|What the hell man. That computer you linked to is a piece of s*** if ever there was one... Integrated graphics, a celeron processor... the list goes on. and last I checked, 730 dollars is more than 700, not less.
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|Acer has 2-4 Acer-branded desktop PCs at each BB/Circuit City ive been to. This is in addition to the 2-4 Gateways and 1-3 eMachines desktops.
Acer generally owns all desktops sold at BB/CC besides HP, Apple, and Dell (of which the last 2 arent available at circuit city).
Acer's had desktops in these 2 stores for at least 1.5 years
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|Although it doesn't specifically say it, the overall hint of this article is that Acer currently don't produce any desktops.
This isn't true.
/just needed to be pointed out
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|It's stated quite clearly in the article.
The article focused on the fact that it will now be doing so under the "Acer" brand.
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|...They do make desktops under the Acer brand already.
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|Since?
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|http://www.acerdirect.co.uk/Acer_PCs/cat.asp
A minimum of 1.5 years ago.
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|www.acer.ca (both business and consumer desktops)
They look nice, but I'm sure they're s*** like their laptops.
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|Heh...
Funny.
I bought an Acer 7250 as a toss-around not too long ago (full keyboard, has the 10-key).
Haven't had a single issue with it.
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|You got me.
Never knew that.
See, I learn something new every day. Sometimes, it's even useful. :p
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|Way longer than that. We bought Acer desktops at work back in 1999, after they absorbed Texas Instrument's notebook business into theirs. May be they should specify to which market they were referring when they said they made no desktop.
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