ASUS has already gone public with its plans to jump past Dell to become the number three PC vendor by 2011. Naturally, with fierce competition from all sides, the Taiwanese PC maker isn't going to achieve this by simply slapping the Eee logo onto everything it can build; acquisitions are the key to that kind of rapid growth. So it's no surprise to hear Jonney Shih, ASUS chairman, listing Toshiba's PC business amongst its possible targets for acquisition according to the
Commercial Times. After all,
Toshiba's estimated 5% global marketshare is enough to bring ASUS within wrastlin' distance of Round Rock, Tejas. In a shocking admission by Shih, talks have already begun but the results are not yet finalized.
posted Nov 16th 2009 5:10AM
This looks shopped, etc.
noooo, you think?
im shocked that you would think that
How can you tell?
two in the pink, one in the stink
Hey mister, check your hand. There's something wrong with it. Just can't get my finger on what it is.
2 in the "oh"
1 in the "ah"
I always thought it was 2 in the coot, one in the poot. :D
Please, no, not Toshiba. Their quality has gone downhill since the old gray laptop days, I want Asus to continue to make good hardware.
Yes, my eee is 10x better build quality than the toshiba laptop I purchased at the similar time. And the laptop cost 5x as much as the eee!
i see what you guys just did there with the photo swap.
What will the new company be called? Ashiba? Toshus?
They're acquiring not merging, it'll be called Asus. It's just like when Lenovo acquired IBM's PC Division.
I mean, the computers will probably be called Toshiba for the Toshiba models, but they'll belong to the company Asus. There will still be the company Toshiba, they just won't be making PCs anymore.
@ashoro
doubt it...no way toshiba allows asus to use the toshiba name. they will get satellite, tecra, portege and qosmio but toshiba keeps toshiba.
Looks like they're trying to pull an Acer, only with the entire market this time.
I've bought 3 Toshiba Laptops so far, and all of them did a great job. I hope ASUS doesn't ruin this.
I'd be more worried about the reverse happening.
ASUS > Toshiba.
@looneydvd - you are a lucky lucky person. Ever considered playing lottery?
(typing this on my dilapidated 1.5 year old satellite....)
The service of Toshiba can only become better. I have a 4 year old M200 tablet and the drivers aren't even available anymore online (so I guess they support their laptops for 3 years only). A friend of mine had a Toshiba laptop with a DVD drive which didn't work with most brands of CD-Rs, and when we sent it in, then they sent it back saying that "only a selected number of CD-R types" are supported, and the drive is perfectly ok (they attached a list of "compatible" brands, none of which was available in the stores).
I've made excellent experiences with the service of Acer, though.
I'll have to agree with Loonie. My ASUS laptop, which I bought last year, is a complete POS. Counter that with my wife's Toshiba (which we also bought last year) and runs like a dream. We're both geeks and put heavy use on the lappies, so it's not a matter of "she doesn't use it as much".
This is compiled further by the fact that both of our previous desktops have had ASUS mobos, which have been nothing but problematic as well. So to me, at least, ASUS means crap.
@weg
have you even tried to look for your drivers????? i can find your drivers easy and i don't even own your notebook. cmon...at least try...
http://support.toshiba.com
@title722: I _swear_ that a few month ago there was no option for any M-series model older than M400 on http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/jsp/supportMyProduct.do?service=EU . Maybe they've changed their site. Good so see, thanks for your help.
I'm with the Toshiba > Asus crowd. I have a 4 year old Toshiba that works, albeit the LCD has lines on it... and I have a 10 month old Asus which started exhibiting poor keyboard / button behavior fairly soon after I got it. I was too lazy to bother to return it because it was past 1 month, but I will much more likely give Toshiba another chance before I go to Asus. On the other hand, I will likely go to Lenovo or Sager or Clevo instead.
Toshiba and IBM historically made some of the best, most technologically advanced and most well thought out laptops in the business. I am afraid that the quality will go downward if Asus takes over. I am opposed to any such acquisition and wish that Asus would instead work on building up their own brand label to tier 1 status.
This picture is another good reason why I wish there was some kind of end of year 'best of' photochop roundup.
the name of the new company
tos-r-us
*lol* Whenever I see a picture like this, I am reminded of an old joke about the guy going into a bar
and ordering "5 beer for the sawmill!"
Sounds awesome! Both companies do good laptops. Combined, they'll be a formidable player in the market.
Asus stocks gave me A LOT of joy in the last 24 months but if this story it's true it may well be time to get rid of it, since it means that the company decided to take on more debt that it seems wise in this moment.
Asus (and all other electronics producers) should concentrate on smartphone and MID/tablet projects which is where growth is gonna happen in the forseable future.
I never bought any Apple products (apart for a short stint with an iPhone 3GS quickly ditched in favor an HTC Hero) but I can't help keeping on buying Apple's stocks (hedged with equivalent MS and Google´s shares just to be on the safe side).
For a guy like me investing only in tech stocks and with (very) limited capital to invest at the moment is not easy to find enough inspiring companies to spread the risks, even an old favorite like Asus is letting us (me?) down.
Acer courting Toshiba? That is a shocker.
ASUS. Not Acer.
Oops, my bad. Can't blame the autocorrect for that one. Still a shocker.
Nope - they forgot the thumb. Arguably the most important finger in the shocker maneuver.
While the thumb is definitely the top digit in the maneuver, the other 4 in the position shown can undeniably still be called the shocker.
Not sure how committed Asus CEO is to the deal... his non-verbals are clear the deal will NOT be a showstopper
Wow- He's got the SHOCKER down- I'd love to have that hand- 2 in the Pank- 1 in the Stank.
HA! I didn't know Mattitude reached that far. Jonney Shih, VERSION 1! lol
Wait what happened to his hand its on the wrong side?
LOL @ throwing down the shocker
That's... weird. It's the University of Houston cougar paw (nee shocker) and the University of Texas colors.
If the Shocker doesn't rock her, Spock her.
Isn't that a gang sign? Didn't know that Asus was owned by the Yakuza?
Dude, you need to get out more
Let me give you a clue brother - TWO IN THE PINK and ONE IN THE STINK
Why's he holding up the back side of a University of Houston foam hand?
(go Coogs)
(in spite of the loss)
Wow Josh Top , your just letting them stick anything up there now arn't you? A shocker? lets grow up
first thing I thought of was Arizona State University Sun Devils...as in the pitchfork symbol. look it up.
I hope Asus's Eee PC customer support improves instead of ruining Toshiba's customer support. A month later I received my replacement battery after having to fax in a form 10 times before someone said they had received it. This for a brand new system. DOA Out of the box.
Please don't! I heart Asus. Toshiba notebooks on the other hand... well lets just say Asus and Lenovo have the top quality awards.
Rock 'em, Shock 'em, Spock 'em...