Definition of ASUS?

hi,

What does the word or acronym ASUS mean?

Is the company Taiwanese or what?

 

Thats a good question..im not sure at all...

A:awesome
S:super
U:ultra
S:systems



:asus:

 

Because I am bored, I decided to wikipedia asus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS#Origin_of_the_name

"According to the Asus sales manager Alexander Kim, the name Asus originated from Peg asus the winged horse of Greek mythology, seen as symbol of success and revival; the first three letters were dropped to give the resulting name a high position in alphabetical listings."

You learn somthing new everyday.

 

That brings up a new question of pronunciation. Should it be pronunced as in Pegasus (uh-sus)?

 

I always say: Ay - sus

Oh, my defination of ASUS:

A=attractive
S=sexy
U=undefined
S=super

 

I remembered this from a while back.

I think its officially like a sneeze because of the home of ASUS

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=35665

 

I always say it as uh-sus as in pegasus... but when i began calling diff retailers, "Hi do you sell the uh-sus w3v?" i kept getting, "What..? ... w T b?"
"No, W 3 V"
"D T B ?"
"No W 3 V"
"Oh, W T V"

"No THREE.. as in 1, 2, 3... "
"Oh 1,2,3 V.. *speaks to the other guy* do we have a 123V?"
"ahh... noo.. it..s W for wolf, 3 , V for violin!"
"Oh, w3v?"
"Yessss"


Anyway, i got tired so i'm waiting for the m9v... that is much easier to pronounce.

Getting back to the uh-sus, aysus.. yeah, it just helped in helping people understand more what i was tryina say...

 

I remember the pronunciation thread, but knowing the origin of the name made me question the conclusions drawn there.

And I do agree, the Asus model names are hard to pronunce.

 

Wow...really?
The name is originally from Greek?
Never knew that though...
but I know it is a brand from Taiwan.
And all its products are MIT(Made in Taiwan),
which means they are more reliable than the MICs.

 

This is what i think it means.

AS -- Asia

US -- United States

It can be alot of things.... Asia and US together... Or.... Asia beats US...

 

I believe their outgoing recordings pronounce it like "achoo."

 

Omg, posting in the Asus thread. Short for PegASUS? neat. ^^;

 

I was also quite intrigued when I read that... I learned something new today!
pegASUS... interesting.

 

hahaha was laughing alot when i was reading it.. lol... i always say it this way

ASUS == AH SUUUUUUsSSS or AH SoooooOOSSS

i used to say .ay sirs....and they tot i got a bad pronounciation of ACER and they juz bring me to the ACER dept..... T_T

 

Whats in a name?

 

Well... depends. I don't want to contradict what I've said in the old 'How important is brand thread.' But... I think theres plenty in a name. You wouldn't buy a computer from a company called Funkware would ya?

 

hmm..... funkware.... I LIKE IT!

 

Pegasus? I think it makes more sense if their English name is just a transliteration of their Chinese name. But then again, maybe they made up their English name first, then transliterated it into Chinese...

 

what is the chinese name?

btw, my story about the w3v -- it was coz i was speaking to an asian guy and they had a funny pronunciation.

 

Note also i have found asian people to be more knowledgable aobut laptops than Aussies, lol.

I was talking to this one guy about the w3v -- and he insisted that it was an outdated model. I was like, "But it's 1.86ghz"
him, "yeh, well.. they don't make them anymore."

what a moron.

 

heh
yesterday i went to look for asus notebooks, just to see and try
like relvax's case, they thought i was looking for acers
when they found out i was looking for asus,
they corrected me and said, 'oh.. it's Ah-soo/sew/sue'
but um i tot in some chinese dialect,
that means dog

wonder if they'll come out with k9 lines.

 

The Pegasus thing is correct. When you call the company, it does sound like uh-sus...however, I think that sounds strange and say ay-sus.

 

Right behind Apple!