14 DAY TRIAL // With AMD and Intel now locked in a competition on the mobile PC front, personal computer makers expect decent laptop sales, but not all may see the same success, and while Acer expects to ship 3.2 million notebooks this month, ASUS reportedly lowered its netbook forecast for the entire third quarter of 2010 to 1.4 million units.
Acer and ASUS are two of the major PC supplier located in Taiwan and they have long fought over the mobile PC market.
Now, they seem to be feeling the effects of shifting demand on different levels and in different areas.
One report made by Digitimes estimates that Acer will see a significant number of notebook shipments by the end of the ongoing month.
Another one, made by the same website, says that ASUS lowered its expectations when it came to how many netbooks it hopes to sell during the entire July-September period.
In terms of notebook shipments, Acer will, according to Digitimes' sources, sell about 3.2 million by the end of August.
This prediction was made because the outfit has already supposedly delivered 1.5 million devices, which is not a very small figure compared to the total of less than 2 million achieved last month.
In July, Acer only managed under 2 million because of inventory adjustments, but it was still less than it had originally anticipated.
On the other side of the fence is ASUS, whose sales of netbooks for the entire third quarter of 2010 are slated to be of 1.4 million, less than originally predicted.
The main reason cited for this downward adjustment is supposed competition from the Apple iPad, which is curious because it was previously implied that slates would not be a threat to netbooks.
Nevertheless, the company has been gradually increasing outsourced production and expects the proportion of this rise to reach 30% by year's end and 50% by the time 2011 ends.