“When I decided to buy an Asus Eee I had a hard time finding
one. Amazon was sold out. Buy.com was sold out. Many of the smaller
websites I found were also sold out, and claimed they would be in
stock again on some future date.“This made me think of the desktop being sold at WalMart running
gOS, a somewhat controversial Linux variant. It sold out almost
immediately. A quick look shows that it still is unavailable, even
on the WalMart website…”
“The word from our ear on the ground is that the Asus EeePC
sub-notebook, which made its Australian debut in the Myer
department store chain on 2 December, was sold out completely
across stores in the major capitals by Sunday.“Myer has 67 stores across Australia and the EeePC is being sold
exclusively through the chain for a retail price AUD$499…”
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
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