Message to ASUS: Eeenough is Eeenough already!!!
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Blog, hardware, miniBook on
You know something, I am huge fan of those little ASUS Eee PC mini-laptops. Anything that helps to bring affordable mobile computing to the masses has to be a good thing in my book. But like my mother always said, you can get too much of a good thing.
And that, unfortunately, is the situation ASUS has found itself in.
C’mon guys, this is just getting silly. How many Eee PC variations are there now? Good question, but difficult to answer. I’ve pretty much lost count it has to be said.
Heading over to the Eee PC Comparison List at the ASUS website I am informed that there, in fact, no less than 12 of the little buggers.
No less, but I would venture to suggest quite a lot more. That list does not include the 900XP and 901XP for example. These newly announced models appear to be pretty much the same as the 900 and 901, funnily enough, but come complete with flowers on the lid.
I kid ye not. What next, the 900SB (SpongeBob) or 901HM (Hannah Montana) editions?
You could argue that the figure for different Eee PC products is already way higher thanks to the number of colour options alone that are available already, everything from pearl white (how original) to blush pink and lush green (how awful.)
Of course, I can appreciate that ASUS must be getting a little edgy now that there are so many of these mini-laptops flooding into the market. I mean, head over to the Lilliputing Database and there are 44 different models listed in glorious detail.
But surely it would be better to focus on getting one or two models out there to satisfy the market, and getting them right rather than spreading the technology love across a whole host of slightly different products?
Apart from anything else, if it can confuse a technology journalist then where will it leave the average punter looking to buy into the budget titchy computer market?
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