May 26 2008

Asus answers on European Eee PC 900 battery issue

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ASUS has responded to the user complains that British Eee PC 900 comes with 4400mAh battery while North American Eee PC 900 were shipping with 5800mAh batteries, same as in the original Eee PC 701 4G.

As company stated Asus has special deal with different markets. In EU countries, Eee PC 900 ships with 4400mAh batteries but you will get a two-year warranty within the country you bought the Eee 900.

Practically the same situation as with a trade-off buying the Windows XP powered Eee PC 900, pay for the Microsoft OS and get less storage capacity, 12GB instead the 20GB found in the Linux version. A

nd question remains will European buyers would likely have stronger battery than two year warranty?

via [reghardware]

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7 Responses to “Asus answers on European Eee PC 900 battery issue”
  1. ramfree17 says: May 26th, 2008 at 11:27 am

    is it me or is that posting a little bit hard to read?

    the philippines is also getting the same 4400mA battery so i guess its either 901 or msi wind for me.

    ciao!

  2. erwer says: May 26th, 2008 at 3:36 pm

    http://www.benchmark.co.yu/forum/showthread.php?t=165324

  3. Nick says: May 26th, 2008 at 4:50 pm

    Iv’e been following the news over the last few months aout the 900 with great interest and now I learn we’re being fobbed off with an inferior battery and a 2 year warranty ( if its going to go wrong it’ll be inside 2 weeks!) well ASUS - there are alernatives and I think I’ll wait and see them now instead of buying yours.

  4. koan says: May 28th, 2008 at 2:52 am

    All the firsts 900 shipped in Italy have the 5800mAh battery… it seems we’re the only European country so lucky…

  5. Riksh says: May 28th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    Next week Asus will start selling EEE PC 900 in Moscow, I’m sure that the battery would be 4400, because all the 701 shipped in Russia had 4400 battery (!) So the only way to get “good” EEE PC 900 is to buy it in USA or buy high capacity battery, but in this case total price of “cheap” notebook would be too high. So I don’t know what to do.

  6. Asus Offers Battery Trade-up Deal to UK Eee PC 900 Buyers | Eee PC - Blog says: May 31st, 2008 at 2:47 am

    [...] who purchased the Eee PC 900 with the 4400 mAh battery, Asustek UK is offering them to have their batteries replaced by a better 5800 model. For awhile, this may seem a good deal but like any other deals, [...]

  7. GH says: July 15th, 2008 at 6:03 pm

    Total bullshit! If this would have been a trade-off (less warranty more capacity) why are the Eees in Italy & austria shipped with a 5800mAh battery & 2 yrs of warranty?!?!

    I feel pretty much left alone by that company, and will never purchase anything again, if they do not alter their policy on the 4400mAh batteries!

    btw:

    if you want something to get done: Please sign the following petition: In order to convince ASUS to swap out the 4400mAhs here in the EU/EE as well :)

    http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/asuseeepc

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