Eee-PC 900 in AU?

[Dave Hall]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 14:01 +1000, andremangan at gmail.com wrote:
>         Wouldn't there be an issue with the warranty if you buy from
>         the US, or anywhere else overseas? You'd be covered, but
>         because the place of purchase is overseas, you'd need to send
>         the item back overseas if you had to make a claim. Very costly
>         and time consuming, plus there's the risk of having yor item
>         lost in transit.
> 
> 
> Warranty is issued by the manufacturer, Asus.   Not the retailer.  You
> do need proof of purchase i.e. date of purchase.  Warranty is
> worldwide and can be accessed in whatever country you live in
> irrespective of place of purchase.

No it isn't.  Many of ASUS's notebooks come with a worldwide warranty,
the eee pc isn't one of them.  This is a problem if you take your
Australian eee pc overseas on a trip and it dies.

Remember the eee pc might have become a Linux geek must have toy, but
ASUS's marketing dept doesn't see it this way.  The original market is
education, school kids are unlikely to need a global warranty.

Cheers

Dave