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   #2. Posted at 01:13 PM on Jul 9th 2008, Edited at 01:14 PM on Jul 9th 2008 Edit   Reply
ludi
EDIT: whoops, @dbrothe#1:

1. Asus has been a notebook OEM for a long time, so no surprises there.

2. The bulk of the design is in the system board, for which motherboard companies are already equipped and tooled. The rest is just a matter of contract negotiations with suppliers of off-the-shelf components and/or letting Compal or Quanta deal with the chassis and manufacturing issues.

3. Motherboards have almost no profit margin left in them, so a little diversification into a wilfire market without huge additional capital investment is a wise idea.
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#2, Some good points it just seemed like a rather random anomaly...  :  d2brothe  (#3)  «

   #1. Posted at 01:06 PM on Jul 9th 2008 Edit   Reply
d2brothe
Why does it seam like motherboard manufacturers are the ones who are developing most of these subnotebooks. First, asus, then MSI, now ECS? Does this seem strange to anyone else? I mean, yes, now Dell, Acer, and HP are in the game, but what gives?
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