What no pics?
An article about the latest EEEPC, repleat with comments about a German model, and no pics?
After their Anastacia lookalike model of yesteryear- I'm drooling in anticipation.
Surely you can get us a few pics :)
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Asus showcased its fourth generation Eee at Cebit today, along with its bamboo-cased business laptops and a series of gaming laptops with two of everything. The Taiwanese motherboard maker turned netbook evangelist brought its usual unique approach to launching technology, with a German model type walking its latest offerings …
Hope you never have any problems with ASUS, as their newly launched 1005 Netbook line will leave you disappointed. As part of my normal business process I purchased a machine from BestBuy. ASUS refuses to support a manufacturing defect, basically insisting that the only option is mailing it back to them, leaving the business traveler strandard without a machine.
For a machine marketed towards "business people" on "business travels" and a VIP support plan that claims to cover "anything" for 60 days, plus 1 year on the machine itself from fault, they will do nothing for you.
Customer service for business customers means prompt, reliable support to get you back to work asap. Customer service from ASUS means they assume you're liar and will expect you to pay for priority, insured mail to and from them via FEDEX/UPS.
The ASUS EEE netbook is a new product, so no third party support or accessories will work. Save your self the headache and buy a machine from a reputable company with a good support history.
The ASUS EEE product line looks sharp, has a nice battery, and claims to offer free VIP support. Pure marketing garbage as they fail to support any of their claims with action.
From this reviewers perspective: Avoid ASUS, go elsewhere for your computing needs.
... their support is equal to every large manufacturer?
Also, I don't see how no third party support or accessories will work - we have about 50 EeePC 1005s so far and about 300 of various older models, no problems with support or accessories so far. Same with the 200 Samsung netbooks and some other odd ones like Dell and Advent, too.
Other netbooks come with the same sort of support which is why everything we have comes under a fix-or-replace 3rd party hardware cover policy.