Eee PC. Touchscreen. May Or June. Book It. Aloha
The company aims to ship up to five million Eee PCs in 2008 through retail channels and contract orders combined, with quarterly retail-only shipments expected to total 650,000-700,000 units, according to the company. The device is seeing a 50% supply shortage in the Taiwan and Hong Kong regions and 70% worldwide in the first quarter of 2008.
They'll have a hyper-low priced desktop, called an E-DT, clocking in at $199 for release at the same time. Be careful walking past Asustek's competitors' buildings in June. Executives might be pitching themselves out the windows.