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*   Choosing to Send Plain Text or HTML in Outlook Emails
Fonts, colors and special formatting are sometimes appreciated in emails. However, often, recipients don’t want them. It’s easy to change the default settings and the setting for an individual email…

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*   The Eee PC Grows More Powerful
A warranty change for users, plus more models released…

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ASUS issued a press release titled “Eee PC News — Warranty Update” in which they announced that they have revised their warranty policy on breaking the Eee PC’s warranty seal.

In order to upgrade the memory of the Eee PC, you have to break the warranty seal over one of the two screws on that compartment. Fortunately, ASUS has relented and changed their stance.

Quoting the beginning of the news release:

ASUS Computer International (“ASUS”) recently received feedback from one of its valued customers with questions concerning the purpose of a seal stating, “Warranty Void If Removed” over the access door to the single SODIMM slot on some models of the ASUS Eee PC. ASUS wishes to assure its customers that merely breaking or removing this kind of seal will not void the ASUS Limited Warranty. Although ASUS recommends that customers use ASUS-approved service facilities and components, ASUS is committed to honoring the terms of its Limited Warranty and making sure that its customers are free to make appropriate hardware and software modifications and upgrades, regardless of whether the service is performed by an approved facility, a non-approved service provider, or by the customers themselves.

Read the whole news release at ASUS

The new Asus Eee PC 4G has finally been released in the U.S. and is flying off the shelves. Both Directron and NewEgg
have had them in stock, out of stock, in stock, out of stock…

Why was this so significant? The new Eee PC is tiny, fast, AND cheap. Unlike its bigger brothers and sisters, though, the Eee PC’s processor is not its "fast" component — it is the Eee PC’s solid state drive that provides a big speed increase over conventional notebook hard drives.

At this point, the only version that’s available is $399 (USD) for the Eee PC 4G, which has 512MB RAM and a 4 GB solidstate drive. Add built-in wireless (802.11 b/g, of course), Ethernet and an optional v.92 modem and you’ve got communications opportunities.

Read more in my article The Tiny New Asus Eee PC in this week’s online newsletter…

ASUS Eee PC 4G – Pearl White Intel processor 7″ Wide VGA Integrated Graphics Eee PC ASUS Eee PC 4G – Pearl White Eee PC Intel processor 7″ Wide VGA 512MB 4GB Integrated Graphics