Asus Forecasts Quarterly Shipments Nearly Doubling for Eee PCs
There appears to be no stopping the success Asus is having with its Eee PC subnotebooks. The company is forecasting this week that it will nearly double shipments of the svelte, low-cost machines in the second quarter. Shipments will rise to between 1.2 million to 1.3 million units, the company says, and it expects to move a whopping 5 million units this year. To put that in perspective, Asus shipped 350,000 units in the fourth quarter. Originally all Linux-based, the company will deliver a Windows-based Eee PC in early May. Can we expect the Linux versions to stick around?
In case you've lost track of which versions of the Eee PC are now offered, there are the Eee PC 4G (a Linux version with 4GB of storage, seen at left), the EeePC 8G (an 8GB version also running Linux), and the upcoming Eee PC 900 (a Windows or Linux version with either 12GB or 20GB of storage). All the systems now run Intel mobile chips instead of the VIA chips they originally had--an improvement. They all also have 802.11g Wi-Fi on board.
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Did we create a DVDplayer form factor Asus monster ? Five ?
Asus became an EEEPC monster?
GM had 5 brand names and became General Moose. The sixth, LaSelle brand, had to be dropped for lack of sales volume. Then GM chairman, Alfred P. Sloan, was a MIT professor in business management.
Asus planned 5 models and became the Asus EEEPC monster? One Asus ultra light laptop model for each class of world citizens? Intel has one ClassMate model and has sales resistance, because it is only for children, not even for women?
We are planning cellphone mainframe computers? How soon will people listen?