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Forbes Reveals the Story of the Eee PC

By admin ⋅ November 3, 2007 ⋅  Send this to a friend.. ⋅  Print this article. ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Add to Technorati Favorites

The Eee has a backstory featuring fits of inspiration, handshake business deals, pressure-packed development, and, ofcourse, some late interference from Microsoft. Forbes got the whole tale from Asustek CEO Jonney Shih and other executives, and it’s good one inspired by the interest in the OLPC, Jonney decided to develop an inexpensive laptop for adults, and Intel enthusiastically jumped onboard when it realized the market for all its Classmate PC tech could be much bigger than educational sales.

A late offensive from Microsoft which realized that Asus was about to sell between three and six million Eees in the first year without Windows resulted in the option to boot XP, but Jonney still pushed to perfect the Linux build on the device, saying, “We want to create a revolution. We can’t afford to put out a bad product.”

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