@thecreativeone91 said:
@ajstringham said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@IRJ said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
Wow..... usually a company does this when they are in trouble, not thriving
Splitting itself is not a bad thing. This is actually what you do to better align a business, in theory. But this is splitting a single market in two and is very foolish in my book.
I remember when Gateway sold half their business to MPC. It tanked about a year later. I remember that very well because at the time I was a Gateway tech. We got totally screwed by MPC. We did about 4 months of work unpaid and then they filed bankruptcy.
Gateway is still kinda around They got in bed with Acer.. Now Acer's quality is somewhat okay.. It's all low-end customer stuff though.
Somewhat okay may be a bit of a generous statement. Before netbooks disappeared, that was their last domain where they made anything worthwhile. The only thing Acer makes that is any good now is monitors. Acer is the number one selling monitor in the country. But yup, all consumer computing gear.
No, the Acer Ultrabooks are great quality. The Netbooks not so much.
Their netbooks were good, some of the best on the market at the time. Their tablets weren't bad but I wasn't ever real impressed with their Ultrabooks. They're alright but nothing great.
