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• ASUS released a press release yesterday clarifying their position on the yellow Warranty void if removed? sticker on the bottom of the Eee PC devices that covers the RAM slot
  

  How can you tell which one you have? The serial number starts with either “7A” or “7B.” This can be found on a sticker on the back of the Eee PC. Of course, to see for yourself if your Eee PC actually has the second Mini-PCIe slot, you have to…

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  They have only said that this applies to america, canada and countries where it is illegal to use these stickers. What about the UK? I want to be able to upgrade my eee too

  Take notes, Jobs

  If you have laws forbidding you to open the case WTF is your consumer associations doing?

  Here in Australia we have a basic right to inspect what we are given, this means we can break all the warranty seals we want, and if the company refuses it on warranty on that alone you report them to the ACCC (Australian consumer and competition commission) and that company gets its ass kicked. if in the process of opening or inspecting you damage the components, then thats your fault (wilful damage), but otherwise they cant do anything. I freely ignore these stickers at will as they literally mean nothing here, just like most EULAs and such, they break local laws (as we have good consumer laws) and therefore you can ignore large swarths of them.

  So if they said they put a certain type of memory in, and you got a crappy ripoff, you literally cant do anything because you have no right to inspect it? What if they sold you a ‘V12′ that was a 4 cylinder engine? you cant open the hood if they put a sticker on it?

  First GPL compliance, then the other issue raised by the same critic (violation of warranty rules/act). What’s next? Getting a real GNU/Linux distribution that is not taxed by software patents? Either way, well done, Asus.

  go Asus, show them how it’s done.

  asus@asus-desktop:~$ cd eeePC_sale_obstacles
  asus@asus-desktop:~$ ls
  sticker screens price name
  asus@asus-desktop:~$ rm sticker
  $$$ - This is how it happened; I kid you not.

  An Unofficial ASUS Eee PC EeePC 701 Community

  An Unofficial ASUS Eee PC EeePC Community

  Useful site for Asus Eee PC laptop users, info, forums, links, reviews etc

  ty to get it fixed, but also cant pop in a new SSD storage module into the secondary