Eee-PC 900 in AU?

[lgray at bigpond.net.au]

---- Dave Hall <ubuntu at skwashd.com> wrote: 
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 14:01 +1000, andremangan at gmail.com wrote:
> > 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.

So it's as I thought originally - if you buy an EEE from the US, and you want to claim on the warranty, you will have to do that through ASUS USA. And that means sending your EEE to them, regardless of where in the world you happen to be...