Asus To Cut Back Asus Eee PC Range [Asus Cost Cutting Amidst Price Rises]

Only a couple of days ago we reported that Asus are set to introduce price hikes across its range of notebooks and netbooks – including its ever popular Eee PC range of netbooks – and now, in a further bid to ride out the economic gloom, Asus have announced that it will be limiting the range of Eee PC’s available in a consolidation exercise that will help reduce production costs as well as avoid consumer confusion.

Personally, we have long since lost count of just how many variants of Asus’s Eee PC netbooks are or have been made available to date but at certain stages in the past its almost been a full time job trying to keep on top of new Eee PC models so its hardly surprising that Asus have admitted that its all become rather confusing for consumers looking to avail themselves of an Eee PC whist having so many models to chose between. Moreover, from a business perspective, consolidating the Eee PC range undoubtedly just makes (all too common) sense.

There’s no word at the time of writing as to which models will be phased out but it will be interesting to see to what extent the resulting lower production costs will be passed along to the consumer to offset the price hikes announced previously.