On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 15:52 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ---- Dave Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 14:01 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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...
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