<![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> i have a new 900 and am sorly dissapointed,the machine is as expected great fun, tho i could do to move the hard drive partion if there is one to increase the main drive, but the battery is dire, and id presumed id get the ones as tested , insyead it struggles past a real life 45 to 50 mins come on asus this shoiuldnt happen still i have seen 1400 batterys on ebay, but is the machine worth the extra expence or should i take it back and with the extra get a better computor the new batt would take the buy price close to 400 uk pounds ,some nice smallish notebooks out there at that

billq

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> Why lie to your consumer when you can manipulate someone else into doing it for you?

ChaoticLimbs

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> how come Sony can make a laptop battery (TZ) last 6-7 hrs ... and other manufacturers can't?

chopstickhero

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> i wish they'd release the damn 6 cell battery already. it's been saying "coming soon" since the eee was released.

firesign

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> Hm, I recently reviewed a UK Eee PC 900 and had the *reverse* situation.

The review model was supplied with a 4400mAh battery but Asus UK stated that the final unit would ship with a higher capacity cell -- it couldn't say which (TBC), but I guessed 5400mAh.

See for yourself at [www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk]

Until Asus comes up with final confirmation or the first Eee PC 900 is sold though, I guess it's all speculation at this point -- at least for the UK.

Julez

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> " seems like they are trying to do the right thing, even to their own detriment."

You mean, "after they were caught", right?

Totorototoro

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> Nothing to see here, go get your panties in a bunch somewhere else...

bpapa9013

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> They've been doing this with the 701 in the UK for a little while from what I've read. It seemed at first that they were just mistakenly shipping low-capacity Surf batteries in the non-Surf Eees, but then people started getting batteries with capacities in between the two and it all started to look very dubious.

Sockatume

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> @cissyrene:

The higher capacity battery is NOT available to consumers. Asus has only said (after this battery issue arose) that they plan to make it an option sometime in the future, so the question is: "Why ship something to reviewers that is not available to consumers?"

VaccaFoeda

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> @ackthbbft: No way, this is nothing like the 3DMark scandal. That was a very deliberate attempt to make themselves look good, in a way that a consumer could never duplicate.

This product comes with an option for the same battery, so you could very easily have the same battery the reviewers have. Like cissyrene said, it's just like how care reviewers always get the heated leather seats. If you want to spend the extra, you can have it too, so why would you care?

DaOtter

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> Well cissyrene, it wouldn't have been a big deal until Asus "admitted" that it made a "mistake".

Also, the higher capacity battery is NOT an option. Asus has only said that they plan to offer it later, but only said that after this controversy arose.

If the higher capacity battery is not available to consumers in any way now, then why ship it to reviewers?

VaccaFoeda

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> Kinda smells of the controversy with Nvidia a while back, making their driver code optimized strictly for 3dMark, but ran actual games poorly.

Next we'll have car makers giving the EPA high-efficiency engines to get their MPG rating up, while actually selling us cars that get 3 MPG.

ackthbbft

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> According to Godwhacker, there are options for batteries. So, why, exactly do you all expect the company to give the reviewers the lowest possible?

When reviewing cars, the reviewer get all the bells and whistles.

I'm a little confused at to why this is SUCH a big deal.

cissyrene

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> I doubt it was a screw-up. More likely, deliberate intent but lets come clean and admit to a "mistake" if we're caught.

VaccaFoeda

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> Hearing something like this really changes a consumer's perspective on a company. I understand they admitted their mistake and are trying to reconcile, but they are only doing this after being called out on it by their customers and their "response" to the error seems half hearted

TOWken22

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> Screw-ups in the name of shadiness are still shady.

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> That is brilliant. Next they should start giving them wholly different computers.

archercc

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> What happened to you Asus? You used to be cool.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> looks like for the other models, there are 2 upgrade batteries, 4 cell 5200 mah, and 6 cell 7800 mah

the reviewers may have been given the first level upgrade battery

not giving them a pass by any means, reviewers need to have the same stuff i do in order to be accurate

but the six cell battery isn't available yet, at least i haven't been able to find one, and i want one danmmit!!!!!

godwhacker

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> I sort of remember Asus trying to remedy things on a couple prior occasions; they seem to be pretty open about it and I reckon that deserves quite a bit of credit. Too bad I don't remember what those occasions were, but they were here on the Giz, and blame my bad memory;-)

yogibimbi

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> On the other hand, they came out and admitted it and are working to remedy the situation with the consumers. seems like they are trying to do the right thing, even to their own detriment.

raleel

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> That is pretty bad. You might as well write "asus" on a different brand and send it to the reviewer. It either IS the right product, or it ISN'T. there's no in between.

Darrone

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> I am outraged! How about you give the me the option to just buy it with a 6 cell for a little more and we call it even?

BadBoyNDSU

]]> <![CDATA[Asus Gives Reviewers Different Batteries Than Consumers, Considers Free Upgrade]]> That's pretty sketchy... hmmm has to be deliberate.

praneeth

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