Eee-PC 900 in AU?

[Dave Hall]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 15:52 +1000, lgray at bigpond.net.au wrote:
> ---- 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...

Yep