ASUS Secures 14.1-inch Widescreen Apple iBook Deal

ASUS has secured orders from Apple Computer for a 14.1-inch widescreen iBook model, with shipments to total about 500,000 notebooks, reports DigiTimes:

Last year, Asustek shipped more than one million notebooks to Apple, the paper indicated. According to sources, the company produced Apple’s 12.1-inch iBook and 12.1-inch PowerBook. Asustek also secured orders for the 15.4-inch iBook, which will be launched in 2006, the sources added.

Quanta is a major contract maker for the Apple PowerBook series, according to the paper. The company also manufactures servers and the iMac desktop computer for Apple.

Asustek snatches Apple iBook orders from Quanta, says paper
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