The Most Hated Company In the PC Industry

Earthweb ^ | 1/4/2008 | Mike Elgan

[twntaipan]

Interesting take on the eeePC and Asus.

[kindred]

[...core, Asustek makes motherboards — more than any other company. Asustek motherboards...]

Mother McCree!

[sure_fine]

(Go here to read the reviews — they’re all positive.)

usually are in sales pitch’s

[Boundless]

> The Most Hated Company In the PC Industry

Is Microsoft.

ASUS is angelic by comparison.

I have products from both.
I am likely to buy more ASUS products.
I would like to NEVER buy any more MafiaSoft products.

[em2vn]

A good advertisement disguised as a review.

[blam]

"The entire laptop will be solid state -- no moving parts."

[P.O.E.]

Kind of like my brother-in-law.

[Dysart]

But wait, there's more.

The eeePC is the new Iphone.

[Tanniker Smith]

ping for later after everyone chimes in . . . .

[TomGuy]

ASUS 90OA02AC0004111U105Q Eee PC 2G Surf 7" Micro Notebook - Sky Blue
Intel Mobile CPU / 512MB / 2GB flash drive / 802.11b/g / 10/100 LAN / Memory Card Reader / Intel UMA graphics / Linux operating system / 2lbs

J&R 299.99

Newegg 299.99

[upchuck]

Intel discovered this fact when the company was struggling in the 1990s to fix a range of design flaws in its own 486 motherboard prototypes. Asustek was able to fix it, and in fact already had a fully operational motherboard for the chipset before Intel did. Since then, the companies have been very close.

My company went through that and survived. We built tons of PCs. And everyone of them had an ASUS motherboard and an Intel processor.

Wonderful, reliable products.

[TSgt]

As someone who builds their own computers I can tell you that Asus system boards are some of the best boards I have ever worked with. They are very reliable and come with great utilities.

Although I own a licensed copy of Vista Ultimate I still run Windows XP since well...it just works...

[hiredhand]

Ping!

[twntaipan]

I was just wondering where the $299 price came from. Amazon doesn’t have the $299 models. Reviews at Amazon (for all models they sell) are either 4 or 5 stars.

[AppyPappy]

I have an Asrock 939 Dual motherboard. It has an AGP and a PCI Express slot for video. Sweet board.

[twntaipan]

I have a friend who had an Asus notebook...old one...bought in 2000. He was still getting parts for it and able to get it serviced after 5 years (in Hong Kong), at which time he bought another Asus notebook.

[Dysart]

Neww Egg, Pc Club and others have them for $299.

[Larry Lucido]

And this is bad for consumers....how?

[Dysart]

-w

[PushinTin]

I have used ASUS motherboards for years and would NOT use anything else. I have read all the reviews and I have NEVER had any problem with any of my Homebuilt PC’s. Just built my Son a ‘Striker Extreme’ system that he is running maxed out setting on all the latest ‘vidiot’ games. I have NOT seen this new laptop, but trust ASUS above all others. I will knock their Customer Support, however I think that it’s very strong possibility ‘Customer Support’ is a term of the past everywhere!!! They do have a great Forum page where I find all my information anyway.