The Most Hated Company In the PC Industry

EarthWeb ^ | 4 January 2008 | Mike Elgan

[ShadowAce]

[xcamel]

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1948706/posts

The Most Hated Company In the PC Industry
Posted by twntaipan
On General/Chat 01/05/2008 8:51:16 AM EST · 105 replies

[TexasCajun]

Santa brought me a new HD TV and now I’m looking for a new Playstation for the games as well as the Blu-Ray player.

[vharlow]

My husband has been building all the pc’s for his small office for years, and uses almost exclusively ASUS motherboards, because they are reliable, easy to set up, and if one goes bad, they replace it. One that needed replacing wasn’t being made anymore, and they sent us a newer better motherboard, no charge because the other one had failed. They do business right. You can find almost any tech info you need on their website if things aren’t working right. We have always liked ASUS tons.

[Red in Blue PA]

Re: The Most Hated Company In the PC Industry

For me, this is still MS.

[TChris]

Free market competition is a beautiful thing, from the customer’s perspective. :-)

[mnehring]

512RAM, 4GB HD, 900MhZ processor. If it wasn’t for its size, I would laugh. It may be a good PDA replacement.

[ShadowAce]

Crud. Sorry. I wasn’t pinged to that thread, and my sesarch missed it.

[polymuser]

"The Asus Eee PC is demonstrating to the world that its success depends on aggressively *avoiding* any Microsoft product."

Money line.

[Domandred]

I only use ASUS motherboards. Only problem I have had with them is sometimes their manuals are pretty Engrish

[polymuser]

It’d be a laugh with M$ OS, true, but not with Linux.

[Moonman62]

Now rumors are circulating that a new Intel Merom-based ASUS Eee PC that may ship as early as April will run so efficiently that it won't need a fan. The entire laptop will be solid state -- no moving parts. Intel loves that kind of thing.

So do I.

[Moose4]

True, it’s not powerful, but it’s designed for simple stuff—checking email while on the road, websurfing, banging out a few documents, storing a few files, things like that. I would love to have an inexpensive laptop like this with wireless Internet to get online while traveling. Plus the fact that it’s Linux-based is somewhat appealing in these days of massive Microsoft bloatware like Office and Vista.

}:-)4

[attiladhun2]

Haven’t really heard about Linux since I was in college, when we installed Redhat on a number of computers in the business computer lab. I really liked the games that came with the software, as well as the office suite. Also liked the PERL editor.

[antiRepublicrat]

Apple and Dell hate Asustek because these companies have been planning for quite a while to introduce flash storage-based mini laptops. But poor Dell. That company's flash-based mini-laptop will probably cost five times as much as the ASUS. It will be 10% better and 500% more expensive than the ASUS Eee PC.

That about sums it up. Apple won't play in that market, period. If they do introduce such a laptop, it'll probably be $1,500 with lots of flash storage, be relatively quite powerful, and capable of running anything. Dell will try to compete with the Eee PC in its market and fail, especially since they'll try to shoehorn Windows into it.

Besides, Apple's will have something extra to offer. A patent filing shows they might be planning to do gestures, with the entire area below the keyboard being sensitive to touch, yet ignoring when you rest your palms on it. They have already created most of that technology with the iPhone/iPod Touch.

[xcamel]

On that, I agree completely.

[antiRepublicrat]

I think they meant “Most hated by other companies” and not “Most hated by consumers.”

[xcamel]

just pointing it out - lots of great comments.

[martin_fierro]

I am *this close* to buying one of those eee pcs.

Maybe when the slightly larger screen/more memory capacity one comes out in a few months.