Asus To Phase Out Sub-10" Eee PCs

jeevesbond writes "The Register reports that Asus president Jerry Shen has revealed his company will be phasing out all sub-10" Eee PCs. According to Shen, the 'standard' netbook next year will be a 10" model with a hard drive running XP. Shen also said XP is outselling GNU/Linux on netbooks by a ratio of 7:3. This is somewhat contrary to news from the UK earlier in the year that GNU/Linux units were out of stock while XP machines sat unsold. Are Brits more open-minded than the rest of the world when it comes to choosing an OS?"

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Maybe, JUST maybe, Asus knows what they say???

[Toll_Free]

Maybe they can't find the Linux versions, since XP is outselling them. Hence, they will ship more of what is selling.

The fact that they are dropping the linux distro version is de facto evidence that they are not selling as well.

Supply and demand. If the demand was so high for the linux versions, they would be SHIPPING more. That's the bottom line, whatever sells, is what the companies ship. It's not like Asus doesn't know how to market a computer, build a computer, or ship computers, they are one of the largest OEM's out there. Anyone second guessing them needs a shot in the arm of some serious reality.

Sucks, to be sure. I like Linux. BUT, like most people, I tire of the endless "getting something to work". I also tire of the constant "That's not what I've seen with (insert MS OS here)....". XP / Vista works. Just use some decent hardware, stop trying to get your bleeding edge graphics card or 1999 ATI PCI card to work, and you won't have NEAR the problems.

And for the "rebooting" necessary when installing MS OS's, get over it. It really causes problems because you have to reboot 2 or 3 times when installing?

And lastly, WTF is this "Windows sucks, because after I install everything I want, it takes FOREVER to boot up"... That's the fault of the software, not the underlying OS.

Ubuntu takes JUST as long as XP on identical hardware, after installing only a few programs on either one. Basic, simple, fact of life. Just because you can fork a process to background when booting up (I ran across forking the networking to background on Ubuntu to speed up boot process..... Sure, it works, and also requires me to wait up to 30 seconds after the login screen appears to have NETWORKING... Hence, it takes another 30 seconds AFTER the login screen appears to be an actual capable o/s (I use it for file serving as well as a basic living room PC)).

Sheesh. Common sense prevails.

--Toll_Free

Re:cheap PC

[Teun]

And in the mean time Linux engineers get paid 20%+.

I work in a Windows shop as much as possible on a Linux computer and am the only one that hasn't had a Virus from some stupid's USB drive.