HP vs. Acer vs. Apple: The fight to come

Over the last two weeks, I attended a huge HP lab event, watched Apple launch the iPhone SDK brilliantly, and saw one of the strongest consumer laptop lines launched by Acer. All three vendors are growing in the 30% range in the PC market; Acer just passed Dell for the no.2 spot in the notebook market; and all three vendors have smartphone efforts in their infancy.