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Once the little Taiwanese PC maker that could, Asus is now counted as the 5th largest PC maker in the world in terms of sales, tied with Toshiba and trailing PC market bigshots HP, Dell, Acer, and Lenovo. Asus’s 4.3 million PC shipments during the second quarter of 2010 accounted for 5.3% of the worldwide [...]

During the year 2009, we experienced what some would call the “netbook boom” wherein sales of these small devices which we here at Eee PC blog all know and love have skyrocketed. I personally believe sales of netbooks would only continue to rise as they get even more powerful, more portable, and more enjoyable in [...]

The latest version of Microsoft’s Office suite of applications, set to come out in June of this year, comes with a fairly updated set of system requirements that, fortunately, still doesn’t rule out netbooks from the non-official list of compatible devices. The biggest changes to the system requirements of Microsoft Office 2010 include needing a [...]

Acer has reportedly placed orders for NVIDIA’s Ion 2-based chips which are designed to support Intel’s upcoming Pineview platform processors including the Atom N450, among others. This is according to sources from PC makers being cited by DigiTimes, in a report where it also states that Acer has placed orders for Tiger Point-based chips on [...]