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Given that Gartner expects 293 million PCs to be shipped this year one has to be impressed with Asustek’s expectations for the success of the EeePC. According to DigiTimes, Asus has ordered 2.5-3 million Atom processors from Intel - and the Atom based EeePCs won’t start shipping for another couple of months, so if you add the about 2 million Celeron M based EeePC 701 and EeePC 900 that they will ship on top of their Atom based units, one can extrapolate that they expect that the EeePC series will account for more than 1.5% of all PCs shipped this year. That’s quite impressive!

Add to that the roughly 2 million Intel Atom and Via C7-M processors ordered for this year by the other major competitors in the Netbook space, then you can see that these tiny computers are becoming a significant part of the market, fast. A year ago they sounded like toys and not something that the market was ready for (except for OLPC’s XO which claimed that the market was ready for it, only it wasn’t ready for the market).

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