Uh. I've always called them "ehh sus" rather than "ahh soos" Never heard anyone call them "asses" though, but I guess my way wouldn't have made a clever video. haha.

my old roommate in college always insisted that it was ay-sis. that guy was an idiot though.

From Wikipedia:

"The company explains the name Asus as originating from Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology.[6][7] The new organization used only the last four letters of the word in order to give the resulting name a high position in alphabetical listings."

Though, the origin of the name clearly has no bearing on its accepted pronunciation.

Oh shit - I always thought it was pronounced AY-sus. Wonder if that's a Canadian thing because everyone else I know pronounces it that way too...

(french) Canadian here .. also thought it was ay-sus. Though in french I pronounced it ah-zus.

It's "Ay sus" and that's the way I likes it!

What are these two dorks getting upset about? Just because these girls didn't want to show them their "asses", they still took the time to walk over there and start a conversation about fucking laptops! And they seemed generally excited about it and in no way grossed out by these two brooding bastards.

That's a win in anyone's game book.

Blame the blonde!

This commercial is PERFECT. I used to call them "ay-sis" until a taiwanese friend of mine told me "nah dude, it's ah-soos."

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought this way

I originally pronounced it like Isis (as in Isis and Osiris), but then it seemed everyone else was pronouncing it like "aces," so I started doing that.

Now that everyone is going to be pronouncing it like the sneeze, I will pronounce it asses. I like to be different.

The problem with this commercial, clever though it may be, is that if it gets viral enough, I think that "asses" is going to stick, and that will be their name.

It's "ay sus." And they're Rock Hard and Heart Humping or some stupid shit like that. Couldn't they afford a translator when coming up with their idiotic tag line?

Only idiots will correct people on pronunciation of brand names that the company insists on. Most of my techie contacts in computer hardware wholesale or retail call it "Ay-sus", the way it's called since it... forever. Only the idiot sales and marketing people insists that it's called "Ah-soos". Similar things occurs with "SuSE linux" and "Ubuntu linux".

Yeah, definitely AY-SUS. Though if it's from "Pegasus" then I guess "Asses" is right...

Ay-sus here.

... anyone else notice the shitty microphone recording for the last bit?

... its like it was recorded with a headset while playing WoW.

They could have worked the joke much better than that.

Concept: 8
Execution: 4.

>> ^TreacleMine:

Oh shit - I always thought it was pronounced AY-sus. Wonder if that's a Canadian thing because everyone else I know pronounces it that way too...


I'm British, have always said ay-sus.

Until now.

Now I say asses.

It's always been AY-sus for me, too.

But if they're cutting up Pegasus, then they should be pronouncing it Uh-Sis.

Just sayin'.

(long A) - seuss here

I've never heard anyone pronounce it as anything but "Ay-sus" before.

I haven't owned one of their products since two of their Geforce 2 cards and one of their motherboards crapped out, all under warranty, and their support people basically told me to go fuck myself.

But from what I've seen they've greatly improved since then... at least their products have, if not their support.

>> ^xxovercastxx:


But from what I've seen they've greatly improved since then... at least their products have, if not their support.


Nope, their support didn't improve at all. They said that the reason they failed to repair my motherboard and won't try again is because of my misuse but wouldn't say what I did wrong. That happened about a year ago.

Wow.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

But from what I've seen they've greatly improved since then... at least their products have, if not their support.


Support is still terrible from what I hear as well, but their actual hardware is pretty great.

I've had two netbooks that have worked great, and they make some decent motherboards.

Ugh this ad is pathetic. That aside, I met somebody who worked for Asus (in Taiwan) a few years ago. I called it Ay-sus, she called it Ay-sus and I didn't get any smarmy correction at any point. Who knows.

>> ^SpeveO:

Ugh this ad is pathetic. That aside, I met somebody who worked for Asus (in Taiwan) a few years ago. I called it Ay-sus, she called it Ay-sus and I didn't get any smarmy correction at any point. Who knows.


Agreed. I don't mind low-brow humor at all, in fact I love it. But only when it's well done or clever. This was just *terrible.

Adding video to channels (Terrible) - requested by garmachi.

I was an Az-whos man myself.

But I've been putting Asus products in my box for decades :-)

Wow! Viral marketing win!

Some random tech company just made you sit and think about their name for about million times longer than you should have. Now there's instant brand recognition for a company that, up till now, hasn't produced anything but niche products.

That blonde needs a bit of a root touch-up.

Inspiring Inovation. Persistent Perfection.

I love how Asus keeps trying with this motto formula. I'm staring at a box with one of their older slogans here:

Rock Solid, Heart Touching

I wonder why they moved on from that?

It's only 'Ah-zhoos' if it's a Mexican computer. Otherwise it's "Ayy-zuss" like an Irish cop saying "Jesus" without the 'J'.

Hewlett-Packard pronouces it "fukIwishwethoughtofthat"

Asus touches my heart!

Wow, what a couple of a-holes. Nice (and hot, and likes tech) girl wants to chat and share, and he wants to correct her, treat her like an idiot, basically be a jerk and add nothing to the conversation.

It's Ay-sus. Like Acer. Which is probably why they came up with Asoos.

Also, if you find a bar where girls prey on dudes with laptops to compare specs... don't piss them off!

Ay-sus here, and if it's wrong, balls to them for having a shitty name.

p.s: wtf is the point in a swivling screen - other than breaking off and making cash from repairs ?

I used to call it Ah-soos, like they say at the end. But now I say Asses.