Asus Set To Ship 300,000 Tablets This Month

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A bit of a shock comes our way out of the folks out at Asus, who have announced that they’ll be shipping out fully 300,000 tablets this month. Sounds all right, until you consider that over the previous two months they sent out 400,000. And when you stack that up against the rest of the tablet market, a strange new development emerges: they’re the second largest tablet seller on Earth now.

If you’ve been trying to pick up an Eee Pad Transformer for yourself, you’ve probably noticed that you’ve had a tough time doing that, and it’s most because large numbers of people appear to desperately want one of these new tablets. In fact, there’s only one tablet that the Eee Pad Transformer can’t actually top, and that’s the newest version of the original, the iPad 2.

Pretty amazing, I’d say, considering the sheer variety of tablets out there from the biggest names in the industry–the Blackberry Playbook, the Motorola Xoom, the Samsung Galaxy Tab and so on, many of which have had some pretty substantial marketing pushes behind them–and what do we find? Asus is the number two now! So what’s behind it, anyway?

I’m personally thinking that it’s the pricing that’s doing it; remember when, just a few days ago, we were talking about the “tablet honeymoon” being over and prices about to drop? Well, the Eee Pad Transformer actually sells for around $399 for a 16 gig model, depending where you shop. That’s very much in line with analyst projections that suggested sub-$300 models, and the sheer success of the Eee Pad Transformer at those pricing levels says that those earlier analyses may be on the money after all.

So if you’re looking to get in on the tablet stakes, you may want to go the Eee Pad Transformer route–they’re showing up in stock on Amazon and Best Buy again, though that’s a situation that’s constantly in flux–and you’ll be able to get them relatively inexpensively. Or you can wait and see if prices go down still further.

What do you guys make of this one? Are the earlier analyses bearing fruit, or is this still a case of too early to tell? Whatever you think on the subject, the comments section waits for you, so head on down and fill us in!