From one of my students comes a link to this article about Asustek, also known as ASUS. Here’s a November 2007 article from Forbes with some more details.
The company’s US$299 Eee PC laptop runs Linux on an Intel processor, and ships with OpenOffice and Firefox preinstalled. The price is less expensive than a copy of Microsoft Windows Vista, and was enough to scare Microsoft into a special deal: Eee PC buyers could add Microsoft Windows for US$40.
While the XO project and other spinoffs try to bring their low-cost laptops to the US mass market, Asustek is moving aggressively.
