[EvilDuck1]

I don't think Asus's sales drop has anything to do with the iPad - they're in quite different markets. Look at the price difference of the machines, for starters, and also the demographics of iPad purchasers - these are mainly well-off people and I think if they wanted a netbook style machine they'd buy one as well as an iPad. There may be a small overlap of people who were looking for a netbook and would/could pay the extra money to buy an iPad instead, but at about a £300+ price hike I would think that these would be in the minority - most people who aren't buying Asus are buying other company's netbooks instead. Asus have had a period of being the dominant seller over netbooks, but I think a lot of other people are producing more competitive machines and so Asus are losing share/sales to them, rather than Apple