I blogged about the Asus Ess PC that is selling in Australia for $500.   It is reported that the PC is virtually sold out in Australia.   This just shows that there is demand for this type of macine.   In the US 10,000 units were sold within two weeks and Asus plans to sell 350,000 by the end of the year. 
 

What is interesting is that customers are buying two and three units for the family as back-up machines and for the kids.   It also interesting that sales appear to be new PC buyers and not impacting on other PC sales from Dell, HP, Apple etc.  This just shows that there is a market for a simple cheep laptop and that once you take Microsoft out of the loop, you take cost out of the equation.

 
More here.

Asus Ess PC..  less than 1KG