More Rubbish From Digital Life
Was snickering after reading today’s Digital Life, mainly because of three “strange” things in today’s Digital Life write-up about the UMPCs. In it, they compared the major brands of UMPCs, and was wondering why they awarded the MSI Wind the “DL Choice” award, when the battery life is horrid, and the screen size is the only largest of the lot. The odd thing is, why they did not bring in the Asus eee PC 1000 series for comparison, as it is readily available at retail stores islandwide?
Secondly, they mentioned that a store supervisor upgraded his eee PC’s memory and hard disk. As you all know, upgrading parts on a UMPC will void the warranty (unless special concessions are given by the manufacturer, as in the case of Asus’ eee PC memory upgrade warranty policy) - this basically means that his hard drive upgrade voids the warranty. Now, in the article, they reviewed the eee PC 901, which is using an SSD drive. Unless the store supervisor was using the eee PC 1000H, I don’t see how in the world you can fit a standard 2.5″ laptop hard drive into the eee PC 901, unless he was modding the eee PC 901 to use a 1.8″ HDD (which, of course, voids warranty). Even if he upgraded the SSD drive with an aftermarket one which is compatible with the Asus eee PC 901, they are quite hard to find in USA, let alone Singapore. So how in the world did he upgrade it?
Finally, there is a 32-year old “tech geek” who prefers the Acer Aspire One because he “cannot find his terminal screen” easily as compared to the Asus eee PC. Absolute rubbish - if he claims that he is a “tech geek”, he should have known the shortcut keys for the Acer Aspire One and Asus eee PC to run the terminal. Even then, the terminal for Asus eee PC can be found in the Applications > Internet menu in the Advanced Mode (which he should be using, hopefully, for a “tech geek”). So, whom do I trust now - the papers, or the “tech geek”?