Record Asus Eee Pad Transformer shipments signal the fall of the Asus Eee PCA new report from industry insider DigiTimes has confirmed our fears that Asus tablet sales are cannibalizing demand for its Eee PC line. Thanks to better than expected Eee Pad Transformer sales, shipments of the slate should reach “700,000-800,000 units in the third quarter and two million units in 2011”. The report also mentions a new quad-core Eee Pad Transformer, alongside the 7-inch Eee Pad MeMO 3D and Padfone due out in the fourth quarter.

According to the source, Asus netbooks such as the Eee PC line are no longer “mainstream products in the IT market” due to declining orders. The dip in demand for Asus netbooks will be offset by the increased demand in Asus tablets in 2011. Additonally the source believes that Asus notebook market share may not advance in 2011 because demand in Europe and the US is “still unclear”.

Let us know what you think about the shift from netbooks to tablets. The Asus Eee PC netbook line is more affordable than the Eee Pad Transformer, but the demand is down? How do you explain the trend?

via DigiTimes

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  • http://www.chrisphilpot.co.uk/ Chris Philpot

    I’ve owned two Eee PCs and have long been a fan, but I think the range has failed to keep apace with changes in the industry. For one thing, a 1024×600 resolution display was fine when the 10″ range was launched—they were, after all, still finding their feet and indeed something of a novelty. However, it’s now over three years down the line and they still offer just the same resolution, size and chipset.

    A stylish 11″ machine with decent connectivity (including HDMI and USB 3.0?) and a screen resolution in the region of 1366×768 could make a big impact. The commercially successful HP Pavilion dm1 offers basically this package, and with build quality vastly inferior to that of ASUS. (I say that as a beleaguered owner of one of the pesky HP machines.)

    I’d be rightly mocked if I suggested tablets were a fad; however, I still think there’s a good market for portable computers with physical keyboards. It comes to something when, to get a good example in the 11″ form factor, one must shell out nearly £900 to Apple and sacrifice even an SD card reader!

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