Asus Plus Netbooks from Apple

choi

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Michael V. Copeland, The man behind the netbook craze. A few years ago
rivals mocked Jonney Shih, chairman of Asustek, and his purse-size laptop
computers. Millions of netbooks later, Shih is having the last laugh.
Fortune, Nov. 20, 2009.
http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/11/20/the-man-behind-the-netbook-craze/

Note:
(a) Jonney Shih 施崇棠
(b) Hsing Tian Kong 行天宮
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A1%8C%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%AE

The one at issue is at 北投. In the print but not oniline, the second
photograph features Mr. Shih meditation with the temple as a background.

(c) taupe (n) [F, lit, mole]: "a brownish gray" Webster (3rd, 1961) (The
first photograph shows Mr. Shih in taupe suit and pants.)

(d) "The name 'Asus' comes from the mythical Greek horse, Pegasus." The last
four letter, that is. (Pegasus is a wonged horse in Greek mythology.)
(e) ECS 精英電腦 (originally, Elite Computer System)
http://www.ecs.com.tw/
(f) Jerry Shen 沈振來

My comment: The article states, "Today virtually every PC manufacturer on
the planet, including Dell (DELL), Hewlett- Packard (HPQ), and Toshiba,
offers its own version of netbook. (The exception is Apple.)"

However, there was this recent report:

Paul Taylor, Let the shopping begin. Financial Times, Nov. 30, 2009.

The text of the report does not mention Apple netbook, at all. However, one
of the photographs is Apple 13-inch Macbook Pro."

I just check with Apple, and indeed it does offer netbook now.
http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

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joshua

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Macbook Pro is not a netbook. Apple thinks the profit margin of netbooks is too small, therefore not worth the effort. Instead, they have been working on a high-end tablet-like device. Conceptually it's probably a larger iPod touch, not a smaller computer. It could be marketed as a thing that combines the functions of Kindle, iPod, mobile DVD player etc.  Perhaps it would be the last work of Steve Jobs.


【 在 choi 的大作中提到: 】
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: The text of the report does not mention Apple netbook, at all. However, one
: of the photographs is Apple 13-inch Macbook Pro."
: I just check with Apple, and indeed it does offer netbook now.
: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

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