I found about the launch of this 18000 Rs small laptop in India by Asus in January 08. So I decided it would make a good gift for my nephew. So I went ahead trying to buy it. I thought it would be easy to get and went to the computer planet in Richie Street in Chennai which is a big store. But they had no idea about a laptop like this. Then I called the Asus sales representatives. But none of them could tell me where I could buy it, even though they tried very hard. Then finally the sales representative for south says I can’t get it because its out of stock or has not yet started shipping. Then he asked me to check out E-zones stores and Croma Stores which don’t have retail outlets in Chennai. So he finally gave the name of the dealer in Chennai, but he again said that the dealer doesn’t have the stock and I should call him after few days. But I called the dealer immediately and found that he had the asus eeepc in stock and the price was 17900 Rs with taxes. So finally after two days and many phone calls I bought the Asus Eeepc. Watch a review of it soon.
I bought it from Sethia Infotech in Richie street.
Here is their number if you want to buy one
Sethia Infotech
2/6, Narasingapuram Street,
Next to Indian Bank,
Mount Road, Chennai 600 002
Phone : 91-44-42149599 / 32982159 / 42168776 / 42168885
Mobile: 91-98402-75253 / 98841-20789
In other places in India try the Croma Stores or the E-zones stores.
They don’t advertise them well and also don’t get them into computer shops. Then they complain that they can’t sell stuff. Imagine if someone trying to buy a cheap PC saw this in a store he would have second thoughts about getting a PC.
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A Macbook Air would have been better! lol just kidding. Nice to see you got your EEE, they’re cool machines. What do you plan to use it for? Do you travel a lot or as your primary laptop?Reply from Prasanth The eeepc was for my nephew for his birthday. He is 10 years old. I wanted to try it out and seeif its useful. I think its useful if you do blogs and use internet, chatting and mail etc. But if you need morestuff like photo editing its hard. Which i have to do everyday. So i think it will not replace my laptop.The screen if it was at least 800X600 resolution i would have considered. But its only 800X400 whichis annoyingly too small for my use.Watch for my review soon. I installed windows xp and its runs quite well. If you just want to use internetand some document editing in open office or google docs this is more than capable.thank youprasanthwww.prasanthtechblog.com
Hey, read Ur blog on EEEPC, I’m plannin to buy one. Pls. tell Ur experience!!!Reply from PrasanthMost of the comments about the eeepc i have written in the blog post here. but here is what’s new.Now you can get different version with more hard disk space and bigger resolution screen. You can always hook up a pen drive to get even more space.This is a perfect laptop for surfing net and writing stuff. Bad for editing things etc. It has wifi so you can carry it anywhere and use it with wifi.If you already have a computer and want something to carry around this could be the perfect thing. Not a good idea if this is your only computer.You don’t even have to install windows XP just use the wonderful os that comes with eeepc which has mail and browser, im client etc.thank youprasanthhttp://www.prasanthtechblog.com