Comments on: Hands-On With ASUS Premium Eee PC S101 http://blog.laptopmag.com/hands-on-with-asus-premium-eee-pc-s101 News and views on today's hottest laptops, cell phones, and other mobile devices. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:45:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Matt http://blog.laptopmag.com/hands-on-with-asus-premium-eee-pc-s101/comment-page-1#comment-13654 Matt Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:31:18 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/?p=6192#comment-13654 I disagree. They realize there are people the 701 and 901 don't appeal to. The only way to grab more people is to offer more options. It took full fledged laptop manufacturers years to realize people wanted lots of choices. Asus just sped up that process. A couple of years ago I wanted a very mobile laptop without breaking my wallet. There were no netbooks, so I settled with a Dell XPS m1210. Sure, it's suited me ok over the years, but I really want something smaller but not too small. This is merely my mobile computer; I have a desktop at home. Netbook sales aren't slowing down at all. Eventually they will make something that I will buy. They came close with the n10 and the s101. Put the guts of the n10 in the case of the s101 and they have my money. I disagree. They realize there are people the 701 and 901 don’t appeal to. The only way to grab more people is to offer more options. It took full fledged laptop manufacturers years to realize people wanted lots of choices. Asus just sped up that process. A couple of years ago I wanted a very mobile laptop without breaking my wallet. There were no netbooks, so I settled with a Dell XPS m1210. Sure, it’s suited me ok over the years, but I really want something smaller but not too small. This is merely my mobile computer; I have a desktop at home. Netbook sales aren’t slowing down at all. Eventually they will make something that I will buy. They came close with the n10 and the s101. Put the guts of the n10 in the case of the s101 and they have my money.

]]> By: Baz http://blog.laptopmag.com/hands-on-with-asus-premium-eee-pc-s101/comment-page-1#comment-13643 Baz Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:38:57 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/?p=6192#comment-13643 Sorry, but ASUS has lost it, insofar as their 'Eee' range is concerned - and this only helps confirm that. A year ago this month, ASUS released its original Eee 701 4G. In doing so (and even without it being the $200 device they had promised), they created a product that hit a 'sweet spot' - creating a small, fairly functional subnotebook at an unheard-of price - and in the process, created a market where none had existed before. People picked it up in droves - some the original market that ASUS had intended for it ("My first computer") - but many were Linux fans, professionals and students who got past the basic desktop and discovered the true capabilities of the Eee. In doing so, certain 'issues' were discovered, but rather than fix those - ASUS, so overwhelmed by its success, decided to spin out more and more models of the device (2G Surf, 4G Surf, 8G, 900, 901 , 1000, etc - with SSD or HDD, Linux or XP), all the while cranking up the price as they went. Other manufacturers have, over the course of the year, come onboard with their own netbooks - none perhaps more competitively than Acer, with their models mostly in the sub-$400 range - but ASUS is now presenting a $700 Eee? They are rapidly in danger of losing the very market (and market share) that they created. Sorry, but ASUS has lost it, insofar as their ‘Eee’ range is concerned – and this only helps confirm that.

A year ago this month, ASUS released its original Eee 701 4G. In doing so (and even without it being the $200 device they had promised), they created a product that hit a ’sweet spot’ – creating a small, fairly functional subnotebook at an unheard-of price – and in the process, created a market where none had existed before.

People picked it up in droves – some the original market that ASUS had intended for it (“My first computer”) – but many were Linux fans, professionals and students who got past the basic desktop and discovered the true capabilities of the Eee.
In doing so, certain ‘issues’ were discovered, but rather than fix those – ASUS, so overwhelmed by its success, decided to spin out more and more models of the device (2G Surf, 4G Surf, 8G, 900, 901 , 1000, etc – with SSD or HDD, Linux or XP), all the while cranking up the price as they went.

Other manufacturers have, over the course of the year, come onboard with their own netbooks – none perhaps more competitively than Acer, with their models mostly in the sub-$400 range – but ASUS is now presenting a $700 Eee? They are rapidly in danger of losing the very market (and market share) that they created.

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