{"id":523,"date":"2007-10-27T06:58:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T16:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/27\/concerned-about-asustek-eee-pc-math\/"},"modified":"2007-10-27T22:19:16","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T08:19:16","slug":"concerned-about-asustek-eee-pc-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/27\/concerned-about-asustek-eee-pc-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerned About Asustek Eee PC Math"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Asustek<\/p>\n

The October 18 Asustek press release title for the eagerly anticipated (at least by me) ultra compact Eee PC reads…<\/p>\n

An Eee PC Sold Every 2 Seconds<\/a><\/p>\n

However, the text of the release says…<\/p>\n

…with 200 pieces snapped up in 20 mins on Taiwan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shopping channel, ETTV Shopping \u00e2\u20ac\u201c averaging an Eee PC sold every 2 seconds!<\/p>\n

Um, hmm, so 200 \/ 20 = 10 per minute = an Eee PC sold every 6 seconds. Still impressive but off by 3x. Not very good math. Hope it wasn’t calculated on an Eee PC \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Addendum<\/em>: Here’s a link to CNET UK’s Asus EeePC 701 Full Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The October 18 Asustek press release title for the eagerly anticipated (at least by me) ultra compact Eee PC reads… An Eee PC Sold Every 2 Seconds However, the text of the release says… …with 200 pieces snapped up in 20 mins on Taiwan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shopping channel, ETTV Shopping \u00e2\u20ac\u201c averaging an Eee PC sold every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-devices","category-netbook-mobile-devices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-8r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}