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October 21, 2008 9:48 AM PDT

ASUS dominating Netbooks--touch screen on the horizon

by Dave Rosenberg
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Kevin's hand vs. Eee PC

Kevin's hand vs. Eee PC

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In a recent interview with Laptop Mag, ASUS CEO Jerry Shen provided some highlights of the existing product sales and what we'll see in the future.

The future includes laptops starting at $250, touch screens and more.

With the exception of some early battery issues, I still love my Eee and use it almost every day to read news and such while watching TV. It's incredibly stable and easy to use, making it the ideal machine for new computer users (and your parents.)

• Four million Eee PCs have been sold to date. He plans to reach the goal of 5 million Eee PC sales by the end of 2008.
• Touch-enabled Eee PCs are on the way and will be here by early 2009. Shen didn't share the details of the form factor, though he said they are exploring a convertible mode and a regular laptop form for touch-enabled Eee PCs. They will also run Windows 7 as early as mid-2009.
• Several skus of the Eee PC give customers numerous choices and allow them to find the Eee PC that best fits their needs.
• The Eee Family continues to grow with the EeeTop this month (that has an Easy Mode for Windows XP) and more products that will be announced at CES in January 2009.

Full interview on Laptopmag.com

Dave Rosenberg dishes up "Software, Interrupted" with nearly 15 years of technology and marketing experience that spans from Bell Labs to multiple start-up IPOs to open-source enterprise software companies. He is co-founder of MuleSource and currently serves as the general manager of Hardy Way. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can contact Dave via e-mail at softwareinterrupted@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter @daveofdoom.
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by Astinsan October 21, 2008 11:09 AM PDT
I love my eee pc laptops. They are very good machines.. Very hackable... very good machines. Run debain on my set of them. Asus is the bomb!
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by AHassan5 October 21, 2008 7:32 PM PDT
As long as they keep these mini laptops under £200, a lot of people will start to buy them. The problem at the moment is that some people don't even know that these things exist.
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by Craigsn October 22, 2008 4:42 AM PDT
I would like to see them add ereader software to this, that rivals amazons kindel. The size of the netbook and with touch screens, would be ideal. No more need for 2 items to travel with.
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