Asus to surpass Apple in notebook sales: TrendForce
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Asus to surpass Apple in notebook sales: TrendForce
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Re: Asus to surpass Apple in notebook sales: TrendForce
#2When are these publications going to figure out that volume shipped vs Apple is a pointless milestone? I'm interested in margins and revenues, but not units shipped.
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Re: Asus to surpass Apple in notebook sales: TrendForce
#4When are these publications going to figure out that volume shipped vs Apple is a pointless milestone? I'm interested in margins and revenues, but not units shipped.
As an Apple shareholder I care about revenues, but as a user and software dev, the metric that really matters is ecosystem size.
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#5To be honest, the zenbook line has been a big hit. Good value and very sexy.
Wish I had enough money for the UX390UA. It's basically faster, thinner, lighter, sexier Dell XPS...
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#6Quality wise who is better and reliable as a Windows or Linux machine manufacturer. Help me create a sequence:
1. Razer 2. Asus 3. Microsoft 4. Dell 5. Lenovo 6. HP 7. Acer 8. Sony (?) 9. Samsung Apple (?) Clevo (?) Toshiba (?) system76 (?) alienware (?)
Re: Asus to surpass Apple in notebook sales: TrendForce
#7When are these publications going to figure out that volume shipped vs Apple is a pointless milestone? I'm interested in margins and revenues, but not units shipped.
True. Apple makes a disgustingly large margin on each, so I suppose less volume doesn't neccessarily mean less revenue.
Having said that, decreasing volume, something which is now never-ending for Apple in the last few quarters, consecutively, is a marker for doom, or at least the end of life of the product line.
When you're selling less and less, you can't keep revenues up by just increasing the margin on each unit forever. It's unsustainable and unstable.
Re: Asus to surpass Apple in notebook sales: TrendForce
#8To be honest, the zenbook line has been a big hit. Good value and very sexy. Wish I had enough money for the UX390UA. It's basically faster, thinner, lighter, sexier Dell XPS...
second that, UX390UA (aka zenbook 3) not only looks sexy it also packs incredible power (core KL i7) in a tiny body.
Be sure to watch Lisa's comparison with the 12" macbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhoAACXWNHU
Re: Asus to surpass Apple in notebook sales: TrendForce
#9To be honest, the zenbook line has been a big hit. Good value and very sexy. Wish I had enough money for the UX390UA. It's basically faster, thinner, lighter, sexier Dell XPS...
I have its predecessor, the 303UB and on paper it's great, but it's not as nice as I expected.
The 4K screen has a "faux 4K" pentile-like layout so smaller text and any type of thin line look horrid on Windows and stock Ubuntu (I Hackintoshed it for better multi monitor support and OSX anti-aliasing looks much better, making me wonder if Retinas have the same type of "faux 4K")
The screen also has the same horrible yellow tint defect as several other 13" 4K models I looked at.
The touch screen has a layer above the screen that becomes really noticeable in certain light (Bot that the touch screen is really of any use on a non-transforming laptop).
The list goes on.
Re: Asus to surpass Apple in notebook sales: TrendForce
#10Quality wise who is better and reliable as a Windows or Linux machine manufacturer. Help me create a sequence: 1. Razer 2. Asus 3. Microsoft 4. Dell 5. Lenovo 6. HP 7. Acer 8. Sony (?) 9. Samsung Apple (?) Clevo (?) Toshiba (?) system76 (?) alienware (?)
IMHO that depends entirely on the model, Lenovo has awesome machines (e.g. older Thinkpad X series) and some really crappy machines (e.g. ideapad).
Maybe the only exceptions to that are Razer and Microsoft who don't do low-end crap.