Actually asus just celebrated their 20th company anniversary this year. The company was founded in 1989. So I would not exactly consider this a 'new' no name company. They only restructured their company in 2005, I believe, and changed their name from acertek to asus (tek), in the process. I also did some research yesterday about this netbook in various independent messageboards and forums, that are dealing with computer issues. While, after researching various test sites, this particcular model is certainly not the biggest bang for money, techwise, I did not find anything that would point to a common malfunction associated with this particular model. So I cannot for the world explain, why the 'tech guy' would advise that this was a malfunction that was common and could not be helped. I would think, if this was the case there would have been some big recall action been taken, since the launch of this model netbook. While I, in no way, am aware of the details on what exactly happened when or how or if something was done to the netbook while setting it up and running it, I am assuming that maybe just a chain of unfortunate events, led to this. Or this was one of those so-called Monday products, that had some issues to begin with. I am not an asus user myself, but using a lenovo netbook. I paid the equivalent of 350 euro, when I purchased it and it came with bluetooth, integrated webcam, wlan, card reader and so forth. I am very pleased with it. Especially after upgrading my memory to 2 gigs. So if anyone is oin the market for a new netbook, this one might be interesting to check out. Regards chrissy
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