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[News] Analysis of the Success of Linux at ASUS

  • Subject: [News] Analysis of the Success of Linux at ASUS
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:11:56 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Asus Eee PC: Why is it SO Hot?

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| Laptop magazine almost  blew its dongle over the Asus, breathlessly 
| proclaiming it, “Pound for pound, the best value-priced notebook on the 
| planet.” (What, not the entire solar system?) CNET took a more tempered 
| approach, yet still deemed it a “near perfect choice for a highly portable 
| second or backup laptop.”    
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php/3724731

They have SplashTop as well... and now a television (also Linux-powered).


Yesterday (now confirmed to be running GNU/Linux):

ASUS preps $500 'iMac killer' Eee PC desktop

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| The computer builder also says it will build a headless desktop, the E-DT, 
| which will at first use a Celeron but then switch to the Shelton platform. 
| Most details are unavailable, though the price should range between $200 and 
| $300 and is being pushed towards the $200 mark. A third system known as the 
| E-TV will combine a basic Eee PC platform with a 42-inch LCD TV and should 
| cost about $200 more than a comparable TV that ships without such features.     
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/01/30/asus.eee.pc.all.in.one/


Related:

Asus Says Eee PC is Most Successful Product Ever

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| An interesting piece of news from Asus’s press conference is that the Eee PC 
| is their “most successful product ever,” according to Engadget. This is 
| potentially huge news for Linux on two levels.  
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http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/07/asus-says-eee-pc-is-most-successful-product-ever/


Asustek Eee PC shipments beat expectations

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| Asustek has shipped almost 350,000 units of the Eee PC in the quarter, ahead 
| of the 300,000 estimated, according to Taiwan's DigiTimes. 
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http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/12/21/asustek_eee_pc_shipments_beat_expectations.html


2007's most important IT lesson is spelled with an Eee

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| The Eee shows too just how out of date the 'is Linux ready for the desktop?' 
| argument is. Yes it is. Anyone can pick up an Eee with its standard Linux 
| distro - or with a number of freely available alternatives - and just use it. 
| That alone revitalises the 'is this paid-for operating system value for 
| money?' question.    
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006830o-2000331777b,00.htm?new_comment


Asustek ups Eee PC sales f'cast by two-thirds

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| Asustek had said that it hoped to become the world's fifth-largest laptop PC 
| vendor by 2010. 
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http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTP4901620071128


Asus Eee PC as 'hard to get your hands on as a Wii'

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| Asus' elfin Eee PC is coming to Japan and it's going to get 16GB of 
| solid-state storage, it has been claimed. Meanwhile, in the UK availability 
| has reached Wii-like limits, according to insiders.  
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/18/eee_pc_wii_japan/


Microsoft's Big Problem in a Small Box

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| Vista is a big operating system that demands monster graphics and dual-core 
| processors. But what if the market pines for a whole lot less?  
| 
| [...]
| 
| The mass move to mobile computing is a destabilizing force and harbinger of 
| change. Microsoft's position would be better if Vista didn't demand so much 
| when the market wants so little.  
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/desktop_mobile/microsofts_big_problem_in_a_small_box.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/2sg6xy


Linux is about to take over the low end of PCs

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| Opinion -- Sometimes, several unrelated changes come to a head at the same 
| time, with a result no one could have predicted. The PC market is at such a 
| tipping point right now and the result will be millions of Linux-powered PCs 
| in users' hands.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| Microsoft will fight this trend tooth and nail. It will cut prices to the 
| point where it'll be bleeding ink on some of its product lines. And Windows 
| XP is going to stick around much longer than Microsoft ever wanted it to. 
| Still, it won't be enough. By attacking from the bottom, where Microsoft can 
| no longer successfully compete, Linux will finally cut itself a large slice 
| of the desktop market pie.      
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2414535067.html

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