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- inactive, on 01/05/2008, -16/+230"Even though ASUS isn't a well-known consumer brand"
maybe to ***** that never bought a board b4 - martalli, on 01/05/2008, -11/+166Is Asustek a small company? They are one of the major motherboard manufacturers... Why would MS hate them over say...Dell, which has made a big show of their new Linux line, available in many countries now.
- ArthurSucks, on 01/05/2008, -4/+150I hope the Eee PC starts a trend. I'd like to see more out of the box Linux powered toys.
- gamemaster357, on 01/05/2008, -1/+130thought it was AOL
- Tyrghast, on 01/05/2008, -5/+108wtf.. where's EA? the superpublisher that buys up small developers, pushes them to the limit, holds them to ridiculous deadlines, and ultimately charges us 50-60 bucks a pop for half-finished games?
- rebotfc, on 01/05/2008, -3/+102Most hated company? Have you all forgotten SCO already?
- dw2005, on 01/05/2008, -5/+92lol, The writer doesn't know what he's talking about -- hes just trying to stir up sensationalist BS.
- staticoranges, on 01/05/2008, -19/+88So it isn't Microsoft?
- PintSki, on 01/05/2008, -0/+62asus not well known ??? what does this guy normally write for? dog magazines??? burried
- justmarci, on 01/05/2008, -9/+70Apple has nothing to fear but the Eee PC is a might fine little machine. And I can throw it in my purse.
- iiBeLiEvE, on 01/05/2008, -8/+59No way that's true.
If that were true, you'd have to be a girl. - rebelwoaclue, on 01/05/2008, -7/+56Because Dell's Linux offering hasn't even made a dent in the OS market. Dell offering Linux is a feather in the cap for us Linux fans, but can you say you even know someone that has bought one? I think I heard one estimate of about 200,000 units sold. I would dare say that only Linux fans, currently a statistical minority, will be buying the Linux Dell PC's.
In comparison, the ASUS Eee stands to make a very large dent in the OS market with an estimate of 5,000,000 units to be sold the first year. The ASUS Eee appeals to the cost-conscious consumer and does not fall into the OS-centric philosophy that the Dell Linux PC is depending on. It just happens to be good news that they are using Linux to accomplish this feat.
Furthermore, when the entire notebook costs less than if you were to buy Windows and Office together what kind of response does Microsoft really have? Microsoft is looking to lose their software dominance because of a hardware situation beyond their control. The only hope they have for continued dominance is to severely lower their rates and/or eventually go open source themselves and sell support. - MadOgre, on 01/05/2008, -2/+50Oh crap. Now I gotta order one of those little laptops....
Done... ordered off Amazon.com. 8 gig white unit. Wife is going to kill me. - HaloZero, on 01/05/2008, -50/+96I think Apple hating them is a big jump...... Macs aren't known for being cheap at all and Mac > Linux in the mind of the average consumer still.
- RandomTaskMan, on 01/05/2008, -1/+43sounded like a clever way to advertise the laptop.
:/ - MackPrime, on 01/05/2008, -5/+44manpurse!
- aznhomig, on 01/05/2008, -0/+32Asus makes more than just the eeePC, it makes fantastic laptops as well. The only OEM that is also an ODM in the laptop industry, they constantly have some of the best laptops out there in the market.
Asus also helps make some of Apple's Macbooks, by the way, so I don't see how they'd be hated by Apple... - masamunecyrus, on 01/05/2008, -1/+33ASUS is pretty well-known in the laptop industry. When I was looking for laptops, they consistently offered the best laptops for the cheapest prices with the least amount of crap shareware, and now with the ASUS c90, I can't imagine buying anyone BUT ASUS (the c90 is super-cheap bare-bones laptop that you can customize with your own parts, making it super-cheap; it's sort of like a desktop, but it's a laptop). Not to mention that they have a 2 year warranty worldwide, so even though I bought my laptop in America, I can get it fixed here in Japan for free. And if I have even one dead pixel, I can send it in for a replacement.
....Obviously I'm a very happy ASUS customer.. ^_^ - PleaseJustDie, on 01/05/2008, -2/+30The A8V was released in '04... Why would you expect something that old to be perfectly vista compatible? Not to mention on ALL asus boards you can disable the onboard promise controller if you want to. I've had nothing but great times with my Asus board. Hell I had vista running on my P4C-800 E Deluxe and that's twice as old as yours and it had a *gasp* promise raid controller! Don't blame the hardware for the user stupidity. Asus is the only motherboard I'll buy.
- Klowner, on 01/05/2008, -0/+27Huzzah for impulsive purchases :)
- jgtg32a, on 01/05/2008, -5/+30Murse
- rolf, on 01/05/2008, -11/+34Wow, what a exaggerated article. Apple isn't even competing in the same sphere. Unless they are talking the iPhone or something and that's really stretching it.
- aiken, on 01/05/2008, -2/+22That was about the most poorly-reasoned and hyperbolic article to ever grace the front page of Digg. And that's saying something.
The Eee is a great machine. I own one. But it is a 7" subnotebook with a 800x480 screen and a tiny keyboard. Dell and Apple are likely introducing 12" form factors. Sure they'll cost more than the Eee. But they will have much faster CPU's, larger screens, larger keyboards, and of course bigger batteries and more storage than 4GB.
Microsoft doesn't hate Asus. Nobody would run modern versions of Windows or Office in a machine like the Eee. The Eee is not competing with tradtional Windows laptops.
It's one thing to promote the Eee as the excellent machine that it is. This "most hated company" line is utter crap. - rauz, on 01/05/2008, -0/+20That, or he's lying for geek points.
- dasunst3r, on 01/05/2008, -3/+21I think that there are even more reviled companies in the tech industry: SCO, NTP, the Reiber couple, Acacia "Research" Corporation, patent trolls, MAFIAA etc. They do a lot more harm than Asus can ever imagine doing.
Buried -- inaccurate. - shm1, on 01/05/2008, -0/+18Wife is going to steal it, speaking from experience ...
- inactive, on 01/05/2008, -0/+18Or laptops, or monitors...
- billybibbit, on 01/05/2008, -0/+17this comment was produced by an asus board
- TylerL82, on 01/05/2008, -0/+17They won't be a company for much longer, anyway.
- EXreaction, on 01/05/2008, -5/+22The most wrongly hated for sure (how often do people know what they are talking about when they bitch about MS and are not just repeating what some other idiot said?).
I think EA and AT&T would have to be on the top of my most hated list. One for releasing less than Beta quality games and only releasing half the game, then the other half as an expansion pack a week later, and the other for being a jackass and gulping up all of it's competitors and allowing the US gov to illegally wiretap it's citizens through their networks (it used to be illegal to do so, back when they started it was, now it is legal, but I still hate them for it). - ajchavar, on 01/05/2008, -3/+19yes, and?
- Cranq, on 01/05/2008, -3/+18Imagine chairs, flying through the air.
- kingmanic, on 01/05/2008, -0/+15Asus obscure? Any computer enthusiasts will list them among the most popular MB makers and in fact they make graphics cards they license from both nvidia and ATI. It's like saying Nissan is a obscure company.
- InorganicMatter, on 01/05/2008, -12/+27Why is he being Dugg down? He's got perfectly valid points (though the GNU fans here don't like it...).
- Superdemon, on 01/05/2008, -0/+15I don't think people care about AOL enough to hate them anymore.
- Speed, on 01/05/2008, -0/+14If he lied about anything it'd be the having a wife part.
- inactive, on 01/05/2008, -3/+16This writer needs to be fired.
- jswoods7, on 01/05/2008, -0/+13He probably clicked "publish" right after he clicked "buy " in his etrade account.
- basic0, on 01/05/2008, -0/+13Unless you're in dire straits financially, she'll probably be pissed for about 5 minutes and then steal it from you and you'll never get to use it again, I recieved my 4 gig Eee PC today and it's a woman magnet. I guess it's "cute" or something, I've never had any women interested in the computer I'm using until today :P
- tbunreal, on 01/05/2008, -3/+16I understood what he was trying to say, and your an ***** for criticizing him on that, who cares?
- secrity, on 01/05/2008, -0/+12That was a different SCO. The SCO you liked was Santa Cruz Operations (old SCO), which was cool until it broke up. The current, evil SCO is The SCO Group, Inc. (new SCO) which bought SCO's Unix and the SCO name from old SCO. New SCO claims to also own UNIX System V (AT&T), but it appears that Novell actually owns UNIX System V and new SCO just has the right to sell licenses and give 95% of the money to Novell.
- inactive, on 01/05/2008, -0/+12so hated by apple that they have their laptops made by asus(tek)
- ez12a, on 01/05/2008, -2/+14Plus why would apple hate them..they do business with them and they're selling! (Macbook logic boards)
- inactive, on 01/05/2008, -4/+15most hated company by PC vendors not linux users
- Giga, on 01/05/2008, -2/+13"Apple and Dell hate Asustek because these companies have been planning for quite a while to introduce flash storage-based mini laptops. But by the time they get around to shipping, the ASUS Eee PC will have already gobbled up some of the market."
That was from the article. It gives one very good reason why Apple might hate them. I dugg HaloZero down for either not reading the article or at least mentioning that comment and giving a decent retort to it. - letierri, on 01/05/2008, -2/+12I can't think of this article being anything else than amazon affiliate link spam with linkbait thrown in for good measure... because the article makes zero sense otherwise. Most hated? Small firm? Come on..
- TheFinaleofSeem, on 01/05/2008, -3/+13Um, because the iPod/iPhone are much smaller and meant for a pretty different use. The iTouch/iPhone is meant primarily for phone (iPhone, at least), music, and video. Internet works, but it's kinda tacked on and not good as a primary browser. Try jogging with an Eee PC in your pocket while listening to music.
- jgtg32a, on 01/05/2008, -0/+10Are you serious? Just like that?
- TheFinaleofSeem, on 01/05/2008, -5/+15Most cunsumers know little about computers and buy prebuilt PCs because they don't want to mess with anything. That doesn't make them *****. That makes you a ***** for assuming that most consumers know how to build a PC.
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