ASUS PC EEE
Asus has big plans for its Eee PC S101. Details on the premium ($699 and up) netbook were announced as its slimmest, sleekest netbook. According to DigiTimes, Asus expects the S101 to account for 10% percent of the Eee PCs it ships by the end of the year.
That would seem to be an impressive number, given that the S101 costs double that of the original Eee PC and that Asus seems to introduce a new Eee PC model every other week.
And I do not believe it for one moment.
In fact, Asus will reportedly introduce two new Eee PC models, which will fall between the Eee PC 1000 series and the S101.
DigiTimes reports that Asus expects to overtake Lenovo in global shipments next year, while leaping over Dell in China in 2009. At last count, Asus was eighth in laptop market share, three spots behind Lenovo.
OK, it is sexy, attractive, works and is very light to carry. Now get over that and it is very difficult to use as a laptop.
There is a lot of noise and thunder about there machines. What no one says is they are simply not very practical. And, yes, I have used one for considerable time.
There will the first mad dash of early adopters and then it will slow down to being just another machines. There is a lot of hype written about these machines. No one mentions they are too small. Which they are.
Source: CNet News