Tough choice: Upgrade or warranty?

[Semi-Lobster]

I bought an Asus Eee PC 1201N CULV, it performs well with the Atom 330 and Nvidia ION (for something that only cost $500 and very light and pretty power efficient, about 5 hours). The other reason I bought it was that, unlike netbooks, the Asus Eee PC 1201N has non-soddered SO-DIMMs and I was thinking of upgrading from 2GB to 3GB of DDR2-800 (it uses Win7 32-bit so 4GB would be pointless) but when I open my CULV I see stickers on the SO-DIMMs that say that the warranty is void if I take them out? Would it be worth it to void the warranty for the upgrade or should I just not touch it?

 

[AsRock]

I bought an Asus Eee PC 1201N CULV, it performs well with the Atom 330 and Nvidia ION (for something that only cost $500 and very light and pretty power efficient, about 5 hours). The other reason I bought it was that, unlike netbooks, the Asus Eee PC 1201N has non-soddered SO-DIMMs and I was thinking of upgrading from 2GB to 3GB of DDR2-800 (it uses Win7 32-bit so 4GB would be pointless) but when I open my CULV I see stickers on the SO-DIMMs that say that the warranty is void if I take them out? Would it be worth it to void the warranty for the upgrade or should I just not touch it?

Would you not be better of asking ASUS ?.. They might have alternative although they might try to force you to send it back to them .

I my self would wait till the warranty is out.

 

[newtekie1]

My EeePC 1000H had a sticker covering the panel over the RAM and HDD. The first thing I did when I got hit home was upgrade the RAM, wireless card, and HDD. I called ASUS about it, and the support rep said that it only voids the warranty on the parts under the panel, so no RMAing it for bad RAM, wireless card, or HDD, but the rest of the laptop is covered. I would assume your in a similar situation, if you break the sticker, then no warranty on the RAM, but the rest of the laptop is still covered.

 

[Semi-Lobster]

My EeePC 1000H had a sticker covering the panel over the RAM and HDD. The first thing I did when I got hit home was upgrade the RAM, wireless card, and HDD. I called ASUS about it, and the support rep said that it only voids the warranty on the parts under the panel, so no RMAing it for bad RAM, wireless card, or HDD, but the rest of the laptop is covered. I would assume your in a similar situation, if you break the sticker, then no warranty on the RAM, but the rest of the laptop is still covered.

Oh! This is fantastic news! Thanks!

 

[HookeyStreet]

I bought an Asus Eee PC 1201N CULV, it performs well with the Atom 330 and Nvidia ION (for something that only cost $500 and very light and pretty power efficient, about 5 hours). The other reason I bought it was that, unlike netbooks, the Asus Eee PC 1201N has non-soddered SO-DIMMs and I was thinking of upgrading from 2GB to 3GB of DDR2-800 (it uses Win7 32-bit so 4GB would be pointless) but when I open my CULV I see stickers on the SO-DIMMs that say that the warranty is void if I take them out? Would it be worth it to void the warranty for the upgrade or should I just not touch it?

Cant you just do what I always do with warranty stickers...........use an hairdryer and peel them off carefully

 

[n-ster]

I don't think upgrading it to 3gb is going to boost your performance much...

btw, how do you find your netbook? I have been debating whether to get the asus 1001p-M, 1005pe-p or the acer 1410 with su2300 or the one you have

 

[xrealm20]

The acer with the su2300 is significantly faster than even the dual core atom - that's the route I'd take as the su2300 is based off of the Core2 processors...

 

[n-ster]

Yea I thought that too... but I would have prefered buying an ASUS

 

[HookeyStreet]

I don't think upgrading it to 3gb is going to boost your performance much...

btw, how do you find your netbook? I have been debating whether to get the asus 1001p-M, 1005pe-p or the acer 1410 with su2300 or the one you have

my daughter has the Acer Aspire One Netbook and its a great piece of kit

 

[Mistral]

Cant you just do what I always do with warranty stickers...........use an hairdryer and peel them off carefully

Ahh, another fellow follower of the secret art...

OP, 4GB of RAM on Win7 32bit might not be a bad idea. If I'm not mistaken, video memory is no-longer duplicated in the system memory, so you'll get to use most of that 4th GB.

 

[Delta6326]

Cant you just do what I always do with warranty stickers...........use an hairdryer and peel them off carefully

+1 good idea it works just make sure you dont over heat any parts but that would be pretty hard to do

 

[theonedub]

I don't think upgrading it to 3gb is going to boost your performance much...

btw, how do you find your netbook? I have been debating whether to get the asus 1001p-M, 1005pe-p or the acer 1410 with su2300 or the one you have

The acer with the su2300 is significantly faster than even the dual core atom - that's the route I'd take as the su2300 is based off of the Core2 processors...

The CULV CPUs are much better than the Atoms. Even my SU3500 single core (but 3mb on die cache) is faster than any Atom. I tested out the Atom before buying and it was not pleasant. With 3gb of RAM and Win 7 Pro 64, I couldnt be happier with mine.

 

[techfan]

I bought an Asus Eee PC 1201N CULV, it performs well with the Atom 330 and Nvidia ION (for something that only cost $500 and very light and pretty power efficient, about 5 hours). The other reason I bought it was that, unlike netbooks, the Asus Eee PC 1201N has non-soddered SO-DIMMs and I was thinking of upgrading from 2GB to 3GB of DDR2-800 (it uses Win7 32-bit so 4GB would be pointless) but when I open my CULV I see stickers on the SO-DIMMs that say that the warranty is void if I take them out? Would it be worth it to void the warranty for the upgrade or should I just not touch it?

Personally wouldn't bother, I don't see what a 2gb-3gb upgrade would give you in terms of anything on a netbook, except very slightly reduced battery life.