Eee PC

There were recent reports that said demand for the Asus Eee Pad Transformer is so high that it actually sold out in some stores where it became available. But the truth, as it turns out, is that several branches of Best Buy and Target simply haven’t even received their supply of the Eee Pad Transformer [...]

While Asus seems to be doing pretty good in terms of Eee PC shipments, both HP and Acer suffered a decline in their global notebook market share during the 1st quarter of 2011. To be more specific, HP’s global notebook market share went from 20.2% to 18.5%, while Acer’s dipped from 14.9% to 14.8%. Meanwhile, [...]

In an investor conference held last April 29, Asus revealed that it recorded a net operating margin of 4.68% and a gross margin of 15.52% during the first quarter of 2011. They made the most sales during this quarter in the Asia-Pacific region which accounted for 48% of sales, followed by Europe at 37% and [...]

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 [...]

Acer is currently enjoying sales of 1.3 million units of notebooks for 2009 in their homeland of Taiwan, and expects this number to be greater throughout the year 2010. Scott Lin, president of Acer Taiwan notes that Taiwan’s market scale is still rather small so a volume of 1.5-1.6 million units should be deemed significant. [...]