Hope all your lawyers and executives drown in vats of warm whale spunk.
PS Netbook!

Abit is chiefly responsible for its own demise. Their modus operandi of shipping huge inventories to large retailers and essentially consigning them is what killed them. Large retailers historically only paid Abit for what was sold, as it was sold, and when the bills came due they would cut the check for the sold goods and ram the rest of the aged, consumer handled, distress packaged merchandise down Abits throat. Abit would then sell those units at a huge discount to secondary channel liquidators who would release the products to the public at a fraction of the retailers price, thus cannibalizing retail even more and overextending Abit. This went on for years and the company declined. In the end they tried to switch to a much more agressive payment structure and were dumped by majority of retail outfits. If they controlled their inventories and channels tighter they would still be around. Sad, but thats basic business.

and you do not have to know Russian. This is why competition is good, if they succeed on youtube, there are plenty of alternatives out there, especially if you speak a foreign language. Globalization is backfiring at the megacorporations.

Not sure why you got modded Flamebait, since you gave a nod to the Linux Backtrack 3. Well I guess I am going to get modded down too, since I am using the XP version of ASUS Eee PC EPC1000HA. It has much brighter screen than my bosses 701. The screen is NICE, wish it was 1024x800 but 1024x600 is not bad. The 10" NetBook *IS* more functional, for starters the hard drive is big enough to fully patch XP without having to delete apps. I am running 2GB with every program I need to work and travel. ASUS is clearly learning, and adjusting to the demand, thats not called a bias, its called a Business.