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[Kureha]

I wouldn't touch Asus with a 1 mile pole. The place I work at right now has over 300 Asus desktops ranging from P4s to i7 940s most of them are failing within their warranty period. All the A5/T5 series laptops have been replaced more than once and the place is now replacing them with HPs.

I gave my dad an original AAO that got into an accident involving it flying a few meters down the street in my msger bag. Still works to this day never had to send it in for repairs.

As for the multiple EEEpcs I've had, I've had to send the 900 in 2 times to get it's motherboard replaced during the warranty period, the 702 died under an yr and a half and the 1008HA fried it's non user replaceable battery after an yr and 2 months.

I build/fix computers as an side job and I've had to replace motherboards ranging from melted southbridges to RMAing a board 3 times because of a faulty IO ports.

The "only" Asus product that I own that still works is the board that powers this forum. I only got it because Gigabyte didn't make a board with the same specs. The motherboard for K1 is still under an yr old.

I sold off my old TravelMate 3002 to one of my friends a couple of years ago, it's about 5~6 years old now and still running. He liked it so much when he first got it that he went out and bought another one, so he actually has 2, one for his wife, one for his son.

Asus parts like graphics cards are lousy pieces of overpriced shit, gigabyte makes the same cards they do with better solid caps ferrite chokes and dual layer copper PCBs. Asus Royal service centers are a joke compared to other brand service centers. 2 weeks for a motherboard RMA a month and a half for a EEEPC RMA. I had to bring it in and pick it up myself.

All acer products sold locally have a 58mins quick fix policy, they either fix it under 58mins, or they give you a temporary one until yours is fixed. That's how much resources they dedicate to their customer support.

[inferno_flamex]

Ahhh.. but that's the strange thing here...

For some otherworldly reason, ASUS had developed a sort of 'trusted' image here locally... & I've never met someone who owns an ASUS & it breaks within warranty...

Our Acer here, on the other hand... ... ... pretty much behaves very much like the ASUS you describe in your post Kureha. From the laptop themselves, down to their customer service & repairs... ... ... Total crap. >__>

Strange...

[kyomarou]

Man, how long has the site been back? I'm so behind....

[Green_Tea]

I guess I should have modified posts. Blehhhhhhhhhh. Laptop should be coming in today so I'll can check my stuff. Far I feel out of it.

[Kureha]

Man, how long has the site been back? I'm so behind....

I think I bought the domain name in April. So, a few months.

[Green_Tea]

I have her.

This is Touka. Say hi.

[Kureha]

I can think of more than one Touka off the top of my head but the main one has bird wings for ears.

[Green_Tea]

KnK Touka. She's blue after all

[Mana]

I wouldn't touch Asus with a 1 mile pole. The place I work at right now has over 300 Asus desktops ranging from P4s to i7 940s most of them are failing within their warranty period. All the A5/T5 series laptops have been replaced more than once and the place is now replacing them with HPs.

I gave my dad an original AAO that got into an accident involving it flying a few meters down the street in my msger bag. Still works to this day never had to send it in for repairs.

As for the multiple EEEpcs I've had, I've had to send the 900 in 2 times to get it's motherboard replaced during the warranty period, the 702 died under an yr and a half and the 1008HA fried it's non user replaceable battery after an yr and 2 months.

I build/fix computers as an side job and I've had to replace motherboards ranging from melted southbridges to RMAing a board 3 times because of a faulty IO ports.

The "only" Asus product that I own that still works is the board that powers this forum. I only got it because Gigabyte didn't make a board with the same specs. The motherboard for K1 is still under an yr old.

I sold off my old TravelMate 3002 to one of my friends a couple of years ago, it's about 5~6 years old now and still running. He liked it so much when he first got it that he went out and bought another one, so he actually has 2, one for his wife, one for his son.

Asus parts like graphics cards are lousy pieces of overpriced shit, gigabyte makes the same cards they do with better solid caps ferrite chokes and dual layer copper PCBs. Asus Royal service centers are a joke compared to other brand service centers. 2 weeks for a motherboard RMA a month and a half for a EEEPC RMA. I had to bring it in and pick it up myself.

All acer products sold locally have a 58mins quick fix policy, they either fix it under 58mins, or they give you a temporary one until yours is fixed. That's how much resources they dedicate to their customer support.

I've personally seen several Acer laptops being RMA'd after only a year of use, but my personal experience with Asus products isn't any better. For example, my older brother (the one that I'm not into so bad terms with him) bought everything to build a new desktop and both the graphics card and motherboard were from Asus' midrange, but they wouldn't work with each other. When he went to the store, they tested the graphics card right in front of him, everything was fine with it and they eventually replaced it for a similar MSI that still works flawlessly, after 3 years. And let's not forget about XFX's customer support, where they refuse to replace a high end motherboard that has a little more than a year just because they don't have another one to replace it, besides the fact that it's 2000MHz DDR3 support was so bad that it didn't recognize memories that were on it's compatibility list and that work just fine on a 60€ Gigabyte motherboard, the cheapest one they had on the store.

I have her.

This is Touka. Say hi.

I've never named any of my computers, I usually treat them as "piece of garbage" and several thing worse than that. Now that I think about it, that's probably why they tend to blow up so often.

[Kureha]

My netbook is named Mafuyu, server is named is name Kureha (hence why the forum was named Kureha One), work computer is named Chizuru, next thing I build will probably be named Kurisu. Router/network is named Setsuna. Chisame's computer is named Chisame.

[sazabi]

so Kureha is slowly increasing the numbers of your harem huh? 

[Kureha]

Not really Chizuru isn't mine, it's the office computer. The router/network was named on a whim and changing it will involve alot of things I'm too lazy to do. Netbook is called Mafuyu because I just happened to see at the time.

[sazabi]

that was a pretty funny series, amazing they managed to pull off having a series set in the student council room for like 3/4 of the time

[inferno_flamex]

Heh... ... I usually call my laptop... "Wife no.1..."
PSP is "Wife no.2"
PS3 is "Wife no.3"... ... ... ...

Never really gave them names... although I must admit, sometimes I unconciously call them 'baby' somewhere in the back of my mind... >_>

Which reminds me, I too had recently bought a brand new laptop... ... Been customizing it to be able to suit my needs with the programmes and stuffs... ... including torrents and VNs...

... Sadly, I forgot, how I got all those Japanese VNs games require a Japanese locale to work right off the bat. Without applocale and stuffs... Maybe its a region setting.. >_<
Any ideas guys?


... ...
PS: Say 'Hi' to... Uhhh... *thinks of a name*... ... ... Uhhh... ... Agggh.. forget it... "SOUL System OS Mk.2"...
*imagining its some sort of Gundam OS*

[bakuman]

Heh... ... I usually call my laptop... "Wife no.1..."
PSP is "Wife no.2"
PS3 is "Wife no.3"... ... ... ...

Never really gave them names... although I must admit, sometimes I unconciously call them 'baby' somewhere in the back of my mind... >_>

Which reminds me, I too had recently bought a brand new laptop... ... Been customizing it to be able to suit my needs with the programmes and stuffs... ... including torrents and VNs...

... Sadly, I forgot, how I got all those Japanese VNs games require a Japanese locale to work right off the bat. Without applocale and stuffs... Maybe its a region setting.. >_<
Any ideas guys?

Go to control panel in region and language, you  go to administrator tab and then you see idiom for non Unicode program, you click in change system locale and select japan,after that reboot the pc.

PS:i hope that it helps because my computer is with windows in portuguese so i`m not sure if they are the correct names.