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Asus Eee: Threat to Apple, Microsoft, HP, Dell and the Hard Drive Vendors?

By the way, can anyone take seriously Asus Eee being on the Most Wished For Notebooks list? Yes, that would be a, HELL no. There's obvious a retail kind of spamming going on here. I mean, come on, as cheap as it is why wish for it, just go buy it with the spare change in your piggy bank.lol

Asus Eee: Threat to Apple, Microsoft, HP, Dell and the Hard Drive Vendors?

Actually currently Apple has the number 10 spot. Interestingly though, it's weird, Apple had 3 of the top 10 laptops for most of December as pointed out (and earlier), so they were obviously the best gift. So I guess sales tax does matter to many. Then again my guess is the quantity of any laptop sale on Amazon after xmas drops off dramatically, so currently the top ten list is not as meaningful.

Wouldn't be surprised though (now that the top 10 Amazon list seems to be getting much more focus than ever before) if there's certain players out there that will try to manipulate this list. So I doubt it will be much of an indicator in years to come. As example, it would be cheaper for a company to buy its own product back through Amazon than advertise in more conventional means when considering the difference in paying for Amazons profit for said product versus conventional advertising. The Amazon best seller list has become free advertising as Amazon becomes increasingly used as a tracking model for sales.

Watch for Apple earnings, that will tell the real story.