Asus Eee feeling the pinch

Despite the rabid press adulation being poured on the Asus Eee PC, the praise hasn't translated itself into sales in the first half of this year, as a slowing economy and growing competition eat at the Taiwanese big boy.

Asus planned to ship two million Eees between January and June (and will have hoped to beat that expectation), but only shipped 1.7 million.

Many consumers have chosen to skip the revised Asus model 900, introduced earlier this year, in order to pick up the Intel Atom-based model 901. But with Atoms in short supply and PC makers on allocation, Asus' sub-par performance could continue into the latter half of this year.

The Eee sold very well for the company but has been rapidly caught by HP, Acer, MSI and even Dell in the netbook-class category. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter

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