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Don't buy ASUS Technology

Posted by KupaMan - November 13th, 2007


Five months ago, I bought this ASUS tablet PC for around $1,700. Present day, this computer has raised my blood pressure too much to recommend it to anyone.

Let me start off by saying Tablet PCs are super cool. Drawing on the screen is very helpful and easy for retards like me who still struggle through looking away from where I'm drawing, plus it's on the go. That being said, they're expensive and risky. You're paying a lot for the screen, so the computer itself is always worse than one without the screen tech.

Anyway, I don't want to essay this out, so I'll just list issues I've had so far with this ASUS piece of crap.
- It gets unusually hot to the point of being painful to the tough
- The pen holding slot scrapes up the pen if you slightly turn it while taking it out.
- While using the pen, it isn't uncommon to have the cursor fly to a corner and click rapidly. This usually fixes when you use the eraser-tip over the cursor. A few days ago, however, it went to the furthest pixel in the top left and persisted after 3 restarts over 2 hours' time.
- When in vertical screen mode, then pen cursor pops up in the opposite location on-screen as where it is physically in Flash and Photoshop, making it virtually impossible to use either in that mode.
- Today, it turned itself off for no reason, forcing me to remove the impossible-to-remove battery for an extended period of time. Now the time resets upon start-up.
- Last night the button latch which snaps the screen down in the closed position broke (likely a spring popped out on the inside). And this is to someone's who is incredibly careful with his stuff.
- Terrible customer support. I sent a support request three days ago with the guarantee of within 24 hours for a response. At least they waited so that I know have two more issues to share with them.

The moral, kids? If you're going to buy a laptop, make sure it's one that you can easily remove the hard drive from in case of gay issues like these, and don't buy things that you can't buy a better version of separately. And don't buy ASUS.

I'd rather have had a $1700 laptop without the tablet screen (and in turn have a much more powerful laptop) and buy a $3000 WACOM screen tablet than this.


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I definitely recommend WACOM all the way. Might be a little pricey, but they're absolutely incredible.

I have a WACOM tablet for my PC. It's very nice quality. I just needed a laptop, and thought a tablet one would be cool. It turns out anyone other than WACOM can't help but make glitchy shit.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! HAVE FUN OVER-EATING! :D

Your problem is that you're looking at too much gay porn.

No, it's just all those penises I draw.

Thanks for the advice! Luckily it won't dissrupt my current plans on not buying any new computer related items until AFTER I've bought the new computer.