Comments on: The Asus W3V Saga: A Fit in Six Parts

By: Eddie

Eddie — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:26:57 +0000

Well, if you had purchased a Toshiba it wouldn’t have gone much better. Mine was having similar issues to yours - same deal with the battery, needed a new hard drive, screen died a while ago. I was using it as a really sad desktop. Now it has new life as a Linux music server for the rest of my house. It seems to sit there happily waiting by my stereo for me to start up VNC and play songs on it. Almost like a retirement home for laptops…

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:25:23 +0000

Yes yes I have a W3V and can confirm exactly the same re the battery. It runs for about 2-3 minutes unplugged. I’m trying to decide right now whether or not to buy a new extended w3v battery. Maybe it’s the charger, maybe it’s battery. Won’t know ’til I try I guess.

BTW, the ‘resume from standby’ and ‘dicky buttons down the side’ problems seem to have been cleared up with their new XP drivers.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:25:30 +0000

I hear you my friend.

But you forgot the part about the completely moronic “spilling of the glass of water” which followed the hopelessly stupid “too lazy to back up the hard drive” which resulted in the pathetic and sad “use of a dell circa 1989.”

Signed: the girl with 0 remaining intellectual property.

By: Rehan

Rehan — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:58:19 +0000

If you happened to buy the laptop with a credit card, check the features of the card to see if it has extended warranty coverage; many of them will add another year beyond the manufacturer’s warranty.

Laptops can be very finicky, so I only buy those that have 3 years warranty from the manufacturer or if it’s only 1 year then I make sure I buy with an appropriate credit card.