As I have recently report you are not a computer manufacturer if you haven’t joined the netbooks market. The pioneering company Asus is facing strong competition that even Nokia have their 3G Booklet, Samsung has their own version of netbooks and the other manufacturers are pushing in their own netbooks product.
Early adopters HP and Acer are not getting distracted by a barrage of models and are pushing their product line aggressively as HP has ordered around 3.3 million units from the top four Taiwan manufacturers in August 2009. The numbers is a significant 15% percent rise and the volume is expected to be pushed to 3.5 million units in September in preparation of the Windows 7 launching.
Taiwan manufacturer Inventec has received over one million unit orders from HP for August, both Quanta Computer and Compal Electronics have 700,000 unit orders and Wistron is working on 50,000 unit orders.
HP’s orders are huge but Acer is looking at 3.6 million units in September as they predict the spike is demand from North America and Europe. If things go well with Acer they are looking into shipping over 9 million units in the third quarter and most importantly they are just 200,000 units behind HP.
The number of units being shipped out is good news to Microsoft as their Microsoft Windows 7 is going to benefit much from these machines. The computer manufacturers need Microsoft to deliver the goods on Windows 7 and Microsoft needs the computer manufacturers to deliver theirs. Apparently, the hardware vendors are hitting their target, is Microsoft poised to do the same? If Microsoft doesn’t deliver I don’t see consumers buying computers with Linux on it and most likely, we are going to see disappointed vendors in the holiday season.
Are you excited on this news? You should because you are more likely to get big discounts because of this slugfest, supply and demand.
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