[Leica] Experience with Apple? (Now: liliputing.)

[jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)]

2008-08-07-22:45:16 Mark Rabiner:
> Why does only this one funny company make them?

It's not so funny -- Asus has (have, if you're British) been a major and
respected force in motherboard design and manufacture for years.  I was
buying their stuff back in the previous century.  They're not (yet) as
well established in consumer products; the Eees seem to be their step
into the limelight.

And there are other brands in this "product space", as the marqueteers
would say -- including MSI, and a funny little company called HP -- they
just don't seem to be doing it quite as well yet.

Of course, it seems as if Asus got the idea from the particularly cute
OLPC XO-1.  With the little ears and molded-in handle.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO-1

Although the Eee 901 is smaller.  But no handle.