Their frequent changes of Ee PC models may have been unavoidable, but potential customers are waiting for the dust to settle...

Let me get this straight; a company that made a fortune as an outsource manufacturer is now doing a 180° volt-face and outsourcing its own manufacturing to somewhere else. Interesting.

Don't they realise that it's unlikely that a smaller supplier can get the same price breaks as they can now, which means the only way the sub-outsource companies can make money is by cutting corners?

They're also encouraging their successors; at one point no-one had ever heard of Asus, but now they're a very nearly a household name? Soon they'll be in the same situation as all the other corpulent corporations who depend on Asus to do their work, except without the length of brand image to weather the storm of lousy products that will inevitably come out of this. Bad move Asus!