With Dell posting the weakest sales of the top notebook-PC makers in the fourth quarter of last year, according to a new market report from iSuppli, Acer is now within sight of second place. Acer sold 3.4 million notebook PCs in the quarter compared to Dell’s 3.5 million units, putting Acer at a 14.3 percent market share, just behind Dell’s 14.9 percent.
Acer computers, following a sales increase of 45.6 percent in the fourth quarter of last year, vaulted past Toshiba to become the third-place seller of notebook PCs worldwide, according to a report released Thursday by market researcher iSuppli.

This is the highest quarter-to-quarter growth rate of the top-five, notebook-PC OEMs, even beating market leader Hewlett-Packard’s growth rate of 32.8 percent.

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While Sony is flaunting its 27-inch OLED TV and FED plans, Toshiba has made public its plans to roll out an 30-inch OLED display in 2009 and will be the largest among all those, which are in the development phases at the moment. Read the more »

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