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Touch Screen Asus Eee PCs
According to Jerry Shen, president of Asustek, stating in January that the company will not implement a touch screen panel option in the company’s next-generation Eee PCs. The panel makers noted that resistive touch screen panel technology is more mature compared to capacitive touch screen technology for medium-size panel applications. The additional cost of implementing [...]
Full StoryAcer EeePC Competitor Expected To Be Cheaper
The Acer’s 8.9-inch low-cost PC or Asus EeePC competitor is expected to be priced around US$50 less than the free on board(FOB) price of Asustek Computer’s second-generation Eee PC. With the company’s large economy of scale, Acer has set the FOB price of its low-cost PC at US$250-300, while the market ASP (average selling price) [...]
Full StoryAsus to ship 2 million Linux PCs in 2008
Asus recently announced their plans to ship five million Eee PCs this year, with 60% of them running Windows XP. According to Download Squad, while the mass media is spinning this story to make it sound like Microsoft is eroding Linux’s market share, the opposite is so. Asus sold 300,000 units last year running Xandros [...]
Full StoryWindows will dominate Eee PC sales
Asus claims the majority of Eee PCs shipped this year will be Windows-based. “About 60% of them will have Windows XP operating system,” confirms Asus chairman Jonney Shih, reiterating his belief that the company will ship around five million units this year, up from the 300,000 units shipped in 2007. “A Windows Eee PC [...]
Full StoryBest Buy Sells Asus Eee PCs
Best Buy, once a Windows-only PC distributor, now sells Asus Eee PCs, which run the Linux distribution Xandros on its website. Last year, Asus sold more than 300,000 copies of the small Linux laptop. The company has a very optimistic view for this year, predicting to sell several millions of copies. Best Buy sells the [...]
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