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ASUS 3rd Quarter Numbers Revealed and Yet Another Promise of a $200 Eee PC


October 31st, 2008 by K. T. Bradford  

Digitimes reports that ASUS shipped 1.7 Million Eee PCs in the third quarter and expects to ship 1.8 million in the fourth, exceeding the 4 million goal CEO Jerry Shen mentioned in his interview with us two weeks ago. If the 4th Quarter goes well, ASUS may even get to 5 million, a big accomplishment in the now-crowded netbook field.

Also interesting to note is that hard drive units are out-shipping SSD units and “the ratio of Eee PCs preloaded with Windows XP to those with Linux stands at 7:3.”

In 2009, Shen expects to grab a 30% share of the netbook market. ASUS may end up exceeding that goal as well if its claims of being able to bring out a $200 Eee PC finally come to fruition. We’re not sure how the company is going to pull that off since, according to Digitimes, ASUS is phasing out the 7 and 8.9-inch products in favor of 10 inchers.

I still think there’s plenty of need for the 8.9 inch size, though, I will admit that the netbooks with the more impressive keyboards tend to be 10 inches. A 10 inch $200 Eee PC might be the closest we can get to a “dream” netbook. But one has to wonder what will be sacrificed to get to that price point.

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