Then again, US and Europe do have better consumer protection laws than we do. Hopefully, this warranty issue applies globally, as opposed to only in countries where they have to, and not applied to wherever they can get away with it. But the reality is that eeepc users have been modding their netbook for years, though.

Wait a minute... does your avatar image mean that u work for asus??

he is Asus big fan, , I think so,

Europe has the 2 years warranty,
US has liberated the memory upgrade thing, jailbreak,

Locally, I found Acer laptop sticks most stick on the screw, but service centre here don't really care if you not claiming the part you replace with them,

Dell, Lenovo, HP don't have stickers.

Asus US even has Accident protection... how to compare?

Nah, I don't work for Asus, I wish I did.

I'm just quite the Asus fan.

The problem with Malaysia is that the warranty might not be as easy as that as stated in the website as the people working in the service center are rather particular with that little warranty sticker.

Are u planning to buy the original 64-bit OS, or jack sparrow it? If u're buying it, mind telling me where and how much?


Here, a guide on how to disassemble the 1215B
Guide for 1215B

the DM1-4000AU's price, spec, and size is just sooooo right ...but why only usb2.0... arggh...

Was thinking about installing Ubuntu, but right now Linux Mint looks pretty good. I'll probably dual boot between Win7 Starter32 and Linux Mint64 until I feel comfortable enough to ditch Windows altogether. Personally, I'd rather spend the RM350 bucks for a Home Premium64 on a SSD.

where to buy the lowest price for DM1 E450? LYP? klang valley area

Right now, the lowest priced DM1 is on the HP website for RM1,099. You have to buy it from HP and wait for them to deliver to you (7-14 days) since no one at Low Yat have any stock yet. Not even the HP shop there has a unit to show off.

tq isky. & i believe there s no review yet. been googling. too early to make my decision. i think i ll wait until all E450 based netbooks arrive from all brand.

The closest thing i found to a review was a quick hands-on video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0YHbVsrQrw
I suspect it will be another week or two before it shows up in low yat.


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Oooppps. I may have spoken too soon. Jayacom is selling the DM1-4010 now for RM1299...or so it seems. Better call them first to see if they got stock for you to fondle: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1831685/+300#

This post has been edited by Isky: Sep 21 2011, 09:57 PM

I thought about installing ubuntu on it as well. Maybe i will once i know whether the programs i have to use for work can be installed in linux or not. If not, maybe I'll stick with starter, and wait for windows 8 to release next year. Gonna be a looong wait though....

Ordered the notebook from forum member Devour yesterday afternoon. Manage to COD with him today around lunch time. First off, many thanks to Devour for a very smooth transaction. Very nice guy, professional, even willing to come to my area to do the COD. Plus, got a little discount from the standard RM1299 list price.

So on to my impressions. First off, i have to say that right now, a few hours after receiving the 1215B, I am both happy... and annoyed. I'll explain as i go along. (sorry, no pics)

First off, received from Devour the sealed box. Proceeded to break the seal, made sure everything was in the box, and started to boot up the notebook. Confirmed the specs (e450, Radeon HD6320, 500GB HDD, 2GB ram, etc). Wasn't able to confirm whether the ram was 1066 or 1333mhz, or whether it come in 1x2GB sodimm, or 2x1GB sodimm, but will do that later. Build quality is good. No flex on keyboard. Very firm. Mousepad is working fine, and quite big compared to ones I've had to play with. Had to move my thumb further down to reach the mouse buttons. The power brick is TINY. So, that part... happy. The annoyed part... well, after i did the once-over with Devour, we parted ways and I headed off to do some errands. Got home. Unpacked everything, started charging... and then I noticed it....

The black top lid is GLOSSY. I wanted a MATTE lid. I kicked myself, cause I forgot to specify to devour that I wanted to black MATTE. Called him to try to see if I can do a quick trade, but found out that his supplier provided him with only 3 1215B options - Red, silver, and Black. No Black glossy or Black matte, just black. Anyway, went online to check his supplier's website, and true enough, only 3SKUs, and only 1 sku for black. Sigh...

So there you have it... for now. Great transaction with Devour. Happy with the product overall, but annoyed that there was no black matte option from Devour's supplier (and I suspect, most if not all the other suppliers locally). In fact, I checked with Asus Royal Club, and found out from them that the decision to bring glossy, matte or both, comes from the vendors / suppliers themselves. So, the short story is... if you wanted to get a 1215B but were worried about the keyboard flex and mouse issues, those things seem to have been resolved... as least on my unit. If you really wanted to get a black Matte one, make sure you specify (I forgot), but you may have to wait a while. But if do manage you find a matte black 1215B in the next few days, don't tell me.




PS: One more thing - there seem to be some discrepancies in the specs. Some vendors have their units specified as being e450s paired with Radeon 6310, which I suspect is a typo. But I wasn't going to make a deposit without being sure of what I was getting, so unfortunately for those vendors I decided to not deal with them. It did cross my mind that they could be old e350 sets overclocked to become e450s, but still paired with the old Radeon 6310s. In any case, ASUS should make sure that ALL their distributors have the correct specs. In case you were wondering... yes, Devour's specs were correct (Radeon 6320).

Checked my specs with CPU-Z before. The specs for the new 1215B are
AMD E-450 with radeon HD 6320
2GBx1 PC3-10700 RAM (means it's a DDR3-1333), samsung brand

And yeah, the only thing I didn't like with the 1215B is the glossy lid. But I intend to put a skin over it, so it's not really a biggie to me

glossy is not nice for my oily hand...and deal with Devour also...Red colour asus 1215B..

This post has been edited by redzwan: Sep 22 2011, 10:50 PM

Same problem here. I guess I'll need to look for a decent laptop skin that will make the fingerprint smudges look less obvious.

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Added on September 22, 2011, 11:58 pmYeah, I'm just being a bit melodramatic. Good to know about the ram, though.

This post has been edited by Isky: Sep 22 2011, 11:58 PM

Clean the glossy lid with cleaning kit :-D

HP DM1 RM1,099 with Beat Audio?!

put some poison here







Full review - click load picture

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/tra...VaYH6XnbFNL1wg#

that is HP Pavilion dm1-4000AU come with Windows 7 Starter selling for RM1099 at HP Online Store Malaysia.Currently this model already taken down from the online store,so left HP Pavilion dm1-4010AU come with Windows 7 Home Basic selling at RM1299 @ online store while retail shop RRP = RM1399

I found out the silver color of 1215b come with matted