Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> Five Million Eee PCs by the Year's End, Says ASUS CEO Jerry Shen - The company
> hopes it will grab 50% of market share
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>| Another thing that Mr. Jerry Shen might have overlooked in his estimations is
>| that ASUS' Eee PC is now facing very strong competition.
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> The 'desktop' is changing. All these big OEMs do a hardware battle. There is
> one clear winner in all cases: Linux.
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The traditional desktop is being consolidated onto Linux machines,
including laptops, remaining desktop hardware, and new generation
appliances.
Mobility is filling consumer demand; just as most youngsters would have
wanted an IBM PC in the early 1980s on which to write their thesis, now,
they're looking at ultra-mobile sub-notebooks now.
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