@drHirudo
Yeah, I think there's a mixture of the various statements in the thread - the business-to-business thing, the EU-specific laws and the standard limited warranty statement. It would be normal for the distributor to tell you 2 years since they're local, however Dell have on their website that a standard warranty is 12 months and a 3-year warranty is an optional extra...
We have manufacturers that offer only 6 months warranty to their products. But because the EU regulation forces us to do two years warranty, we cover the remaining 1,5 years of warranty by us. Well, if you think the customer is the winner in this case, you are wrong!
All the distributors who have to cover the extra warranty time with repairs by themselves, include that extra expense in the cost of the product. So the customer is the loser in the case, in fact every customer, because he pays for the extra warranty that he may never has to use. Some distributors of for example HP offered us 5-years extended warranty for printers at extra charge. You can have even 10 years warranty if you want to spend extra for something that you may not need at all. I think two years is pretty okay and the directive is right. But probably AmigaKit wants the X1000 price to be as low as possible, so they offer more limited warranty. I am not sure, probably some representative of them can tell us.
Most of the time the warranty period speaks for itself. If the manufacturer is not scared to offer 2-3 years warranty, like in may case with the Inspiron (probably the high end products) then it shall speak that the product is monitored under better QA department.
On the contrary, the AmigaOne X1000 is developed by a start-up company that as shown on some of the pictures have QA department of only one person, who is probably doing this part time. No wonder they can not offer extended warranty period.
