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Loading ...So Asus only expected to sell at most 300,000 of these things, they’ve already sold over 350k of the little buggers. If they could have made them as fast as people were buying them, they probably could have sold a few tens of thousands more.
Currently they are available in a few different colors at a few different spec levels with the biggest differentiating factor being the storage capacity which currently ranges from 2-8 gigabytes, and all of them are sold out everywhere. Just about the only place you can find an Eee these days is on Ebay where you’ll pay a considerable premium if you want one.
So, I have an honest question for our readers, first, those of you that don’t have one, or those of you that had to fight to get one, why do you lust after it so much? I mean I understand lusting after electronics, so it’s not about that, by why this particular computer? Also, those of you that have one, whether you had to fight for it or not, are you still happy with it, and were they worth it?
Eee PC an actual statistical success – 350,000 sold already, says Asus [via techdigest]
I got mine because it was inexpensive and all the reviews said it was very high quality. I was not disappointed - it is the most useful gadget I’ve bought.
I would have got one and I’m still interested. The big downer for me is the miniscule HDD. Once they hold more - I’m all over one!
1st - Do not want to pay any Microsoft TAX on hardware (specially at low price hardware)
2nd - Small size and light means easy to move anywhere (no optical drive is a plus) with a well supported architecture (x86).
3rd - Software potential based on open source community (the included packages are fine, but I know there is thousands more applications free and not at faith of a single vendor.
4rd - Due to its success I know there will be much more developers and market force to increase value of already paid price (firmware updates, gadgets, even closed source software never release before in linux such as skype 2.0 for linux - with video conferencing support - I’m already beneficing in my Ubuntu Linux Desktop even without buying it). So in general it foments better market competition in a previous monopoly world - better for everyone (remember Firefox was the browser that made Microsoft develop IE7).
5th - Reasonable performance with low power tech.
6th - Any one sould be able to use it because it’s easy to operate (maybe some people afraid of computers can have a second chance and change their mind).
I think those are the main reasons for me.