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Asus F3Jc

26 May, 2007, 4:43 pm IST | Gaurav Seth | Notebooks

Warranty and Support
Last but not the least the laptop comes with a 2 year warranty, with 1 year on the battery. The warranty type is on-site and carry-in both, depending on the location of the user from the service center. If the user’s house within the prescribed limit (40 kms or lesser), he/she will get on-site support, else the user will have to carry the laptop to the service center. Asus has 24 centers all over India. For more log on to Asus’es Indian website.

Conclusion
As mentioned earlier Asus is well known for providing quality components and the same reflects in the F3Jc too. Attention has been paid to details like using a single stick of 1GB RAM instead of two 512MB to keep one slot free for future upgrade (most manufacturers including Dell, use two 512MB sticks for laptops with 1GB configuration and charge extra for a single stick) to incorporating the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) to give you a very good security solution for your sensitive data.

The Asus sells for Rs. 60,250 plus taxes. You will be paying almost the same for a similar configuration with another top tier manufacturer. But you also have to keep in mind that you get two years warranty with the F3Jc.

The only thing the concerns me is the non-availability of an option to get a pre-installed operating system. In such a circumstance the user will either have to get it installed by the dealer whom he purchases the laptop from or install it himself. That means that for availing support for software related problems, he/she will have to co-ordinate with Microsoft, in case he opts for Windows, which is the case most of the times. This might lead to a problem where the user can be caught between the hardware and software provider for a particular problem.

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