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Asustek Computer Inc is surfing the slabbie sales swell better than most of its peers, if calendar Q1 financials are a decent metric. The Taiwanese producer of own-branded tabs - it also makes Google's Nexus 7 - pushed up turnover 16 per cent to NT$105,157bn (£2.29bn) in the first three months of 2013. The bottom line also …

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  1. DuncanL

    "product transition"

    "In fact it warned sales of tablets would dip sequentially to 2.8 million in Q2 due to a product transition."

    Hopefully this is a tacit confirmation of the end of the current Nexus 7 and replacement by something new and even shinier.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: "product transition"

      Could it be because they are planning to move to Windows ?

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: "product transition"

      Probably the padfone phone/tablet combo which cleverly combines an indifferent tablet with a mediocre phone.

      I like my N56V a lot though, especially with a hybrid drive. 1080p screen and serious data crunching.

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    Dear Dell, HP and ASUS...

    Pay me a beeellliioon dollah and I save your PC business.

    Here is a hint, it involves innovating... wink wink

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      Re: Dear Dell, HP and ASUS...

      "Here is a hint, it involves innovating... wink wink"

      If it's that good an idea, go to a bank and start your own business with it. Go on, genius, you show 'em!

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      Re: Dear Dell, HP and ASUS...

      Dear Microsoft,

      Pay us (cough I mean invest) $2bn dollars each and we'll stay in the PC game.

      Signed Dell, HP and Asus

      There corrected for you.

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        @AC 13:35GMT - Re: Dear Dell, HP and ASUS...

        Actually PC manufacturers and the PC market in general are in this dire situation precisely because of Microsoft's stranglehold. Microsoft kept a tight grip but they couldn't prevent innovation moving elsewhere, to any device that's not a PC. With its recently launched patent crusade Microsoft aims to correct the situation and bring back in its Redmond stables the rebel device manufacturers. Personally I am not sure I would want them to succeed.

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  3. Shagbag
    FAIL

    Battle of the ACs

    LOL.

    FAIL.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    PC market still burning... mi dinero!!!

    All I know is I got severely burned buying Asus G75VW's in 2012.

    Their international warranty is a myth.

    Be careful folks!

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