Dug up an article at Taipei Times, with a dateline of Tuesday, Apr 17, 2007, which quote in part -
Asustek Computer Inc is tapping into the market for budget notebook PCs with a slew of products scheduled for launch in the second half of the year. According to the Commercial Times report, five budget laptop models would be priced from US$199 to US$549. They will employ Intel's Solid State Disk with flash memory from 1 GB to 40 GB. The 7-inch panels for the notebook computers will be sourced from AU Optronics Corp.
Asustek will be competing against Quanta Computer Inc, the world's biggest notebook computer contract maker, in the budget PC arena. Quanta is the sole manufacturer of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a project initiated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to distribute computers to children in developing countries.
Using the Linux operating system and low-cost materials, these notebook computers, priced at US$150 a unit, will come onstream later this year. Quanta has said it aims to deliver more than 10 million OLPCs within the first 12 months.
However, Merrill Lynch cautioned last month that while the OLPC business model might be viable in its initial stage, users would face problems when they need maintenance help, software debugging, updates or help in handling viruses.
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