6 Aug
2010
6 Aug
'10
12:15 p.m.
The annoying part is that ASUS USA will sell spare
parts for their=20
laptops (even stuff like motherboards) so you can basically do DIY=20
fixes. ASUS Europe don't even have a phone number (IIRC).
But not real poarts, like individual ICs, or even things like swithces
and connectors (which are likely to break, and can be easily
hand-soldered) I'll bet...
Again, I have real service manauls for all my laptops (which are, of
course, all on-topic here :-)) with schematics. And many of the parits I
can still get (althoguh the ASICs would be fun to get now ;-(). But anyway...
Seagate are almost as bad. "Send us the drive, we'll pay return post,=20
but it has to be sent in one of our RMA-Approved Boxes complete with=20
branding".... last time I checked, one of those boxes was =A325 plus VAT=20
and P&P. This and the "F-you" I got when my Barracuda 7200.11 packed in=20
Yep, I had that little scam...
-tony