Averatec laptops?

[LuckyTaxi]

Anyone have experience with this brand of laptop?

Averatec

 

[fbrdphreak]

Averatec is an excellent value-line brand. While the quality is great for the price, don't expect Thinkpad built quality for Averatec price My buddy bought an Athlon XP-M one for like $800 AR and it works well for his uses. Light, 12" screen, decent performance. It runs VERY hot and the found is quite loud compared to most laptops, but for $800 you gonna complain? Check out this thread, there are some interesting solutions to the Averatec heat issues.
Averatec supposedly recently came out with a Centrino model and they are listed as one of the companies to come out with Turion Mobile Technology; I would wait and see what Turion has to bring to the table!

P.S. Given you are a diamond member, wouldn't you know to just make ONE thread and ask for help with what you need in a laptop instead of starting multiple threads? Ask away!!

 

[imported_Kensai]

I hear they're more than adequate for the price.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

P.S. Given you are a diamond member, wouldn't you know to just make ONE thread and ask for help with what you need in a laptop instead of starting multiple threads? Ask away!!

Yea, but what happened was, I made one thread in the AM and went out to purchase my laptop during lunch. I came back and began to regret my purchase. I ended up with an Acer, when I think I should've went for the Averatec tablet pc. But, I figure I'm gonna try linux so i'm happy with my decision.

This thread was to get feedback as I was considering returning this for the averatec.

 

[fbrdphreak]

I gotcha
Which Acer did you get?

 

[Samus]

I got my Dad an Averatech. Only complaint is the funky keyboard layout.

 

[trungthiendo]

for the price, you can't really complain about anything, they are thin, light, rather hot but whatever

can't beat it pricewise

stay away from their tablet pc...its not a true tablet, does not have the wacom digitizer if i remember correctly...

 

[LuckyTaxi]

I got the Acer Aspire 1680
Reinstalling Windows Pro since they gave me Windows Home