Gerald, you can buy an extended warranty for just about anything these days. Heck, Best Buy will even try to sell you an extended warranty on a $40 boombox if you let them. As a rule I never take extended warranties on anything. In the course of your lifetime if you add up all of the money you saved on not buying them you can practically laugh at the folks that did buy them, while sipping your drink on some sandy strip of beach somewhere. It is interesting that you mention the good old Dell workstation as I am typing this now on an ancient Dell workstation that I bought back in 2001. It was pretty high end back then and cost close to 4K. It is too late to do that math in my head but that is around $450 a year. Nowadays, I can spend that much per year and get a new desktop every year. Leaving the $20k plus servers I build aside, these consumer computers have gone the way of the toaster, electric toothbrush and TV. Just another piece of disposable consumer electronics. Frank
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gerald Levy Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 8:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] asus computer company The reason these netbooks are so cheap is that they use inferior components and shoddy construction. Does Asus offer a three year warranty on its products like Dell? I don't think so. To me, a PC is a long-term commitment, not a throwaway commodity. I'm in no financial position to run out and buy a new PC every six months, which is about the life span of some of this garbage. So for now, I'll stick with my 30 pound Dell workstation, which is built like a tank. Gerald ----- Original Message ----- From: "ChB" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 3:19 AM Subject: [Blind-Computing] asus computer company > 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 > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
