Eee PC

It’s been a long while since we last heard from Asus as reported by Digitimes, until now. Digitimes is reporting that Asustek is planning to release a new netbook line (not the one pictured here) that will be as dirt cheap as $200-$250. Our question is, what took Asus this long to think about this? [...]

Asus just put up a very brief announcement that they will be adding USB 3.0 ports in their popular Eee brands, namely the Eee PC netbooks and the Eee Box. They also claim that they can pump up the speed The story of course comes as no surprise but how soon will they be integrating [...]

Asus chief Jonney Shih said together with the announcement of the spin-off of manufacturing arm Pegatron that they are going to launch a “killer product“this June. The CEO is keeping mum as to what the product actually is but the blogosphere buzz points to the Eee Pad, a concept tablet device Asus showed off during [...]

Asustek are aiming to ship 20 million notebooks throughout 2010, overtaking Toshiba and Lenovo. If they succeed, it will make them the fifth largest vendor worldwide. From the 20 million, 8 million is expected to come from netbook sales. Asus are also expecting 30% of shipments to be from notebooks supporting USB 3.0. It’s unclear [...]

In a recent interview with Asustek chairman Jonney Shih, he explained that the company is not looking into making smartbooks and eBook readers in the near future. He says that one of the major roadblocks for this technology is the compatibility with most software. Most Asus netbooks can run on a host of different OSes [...]