Finally Pulled the Trigger W5F

For the last 5 years, my wife's been using an S1A (I believe this was purchased when Asus first started selling laptops in the US; what an awesome little notebook). It served its life dutifully and had only one major problem during this entire time: it totally blacked out and would not powerup for ~1 month and we thought it was dead only to have it mysteriously come to life one day (it started doing it again recently, anyone know the solution/ran into this problem before??).

Well, one of her friends needed a cheap computer a few months back so we decided to sell it to her and upgrade the wife's machine. I was somewhat set on the Compal FL30, after checking out a few reviews here (and having another SOLID Compal for the last 3 years that has maybe had 1 BSOD from a bad driver and no other flaws whatsoever). As the Core Duo lineup started shipping and the news of the W7 came around compounded by the Vista GUI requirements, I was hesitant to pull the trigger on a significant purchase . So since then, my wife has been annoying the hell out of me and using my computers and laptops (I've a developer with multiple machines around the house).

I really wanted to wait on the Z35 or perhaps the W7, but I couldn't handle it anymore.

Ordered from Geared2Play. Wife said that the man on the other end was courteous, polite, knowledgeable, and helpful

So anyways, the second Asus for her. I'll try to take pics when it gets in.

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Congrats im sure you will love it. Its an awsome little machine.

 

Could you PM me and let me know what you think of it when you get it? Thanks.

 

Hahaha rick..

 

Haven't gotten the laptop yet, but I'm considering a clean install.

Does this affect warranty at all?

Also, as I haven't purchased a new Asus notebook in a while, what is the disk layout like by default? Can the entire disk be wiped and reformatted without consequence?

Any info would be helpful.

 

It's in partitions, but you can easily use the provided restore discs to do 3 things, 1. reset to factory settings(what it was like when you first got laptop, in 2 partitions), 2. reset to factory settings in 1 partition, and 3. reset 1st partition but keep the 2nd partition. Note that ASUS has a 'secret' 3rd partition, you can only get 'rid' of it using PatitionMagic, etc. It's not a big deal though...

 

If you have your own installation of Windows, it doesn't affect the warranty at all. Normally, the software problem can be fixed by users as long as the users have a recovery CD which included Windows XP. Of course, before you wipe or reformat the disk, you have to backup all the data, otherwise, all the losing data is the consequence during using the recovery CD to format the hard drive.

 

Hi Charlie, any updates on your new W5F? Planning to get that next week. Any comments will be good..

 

Will be here on Monday. Pics will be posted probably Tue.~Wed.