Advantages: Amazing value for money, very portable, all round good performance Disadvantages: Terrible for gaming, overheats, tinny speakers
I bought my Averatec 3260 last August (£520 delivered from Savastore). Me and my girlfriend were looking to buy a laptop and we wanted to split the cost. I travel a lot in my job, so I wanted an ultraportable and was pushing for a Sony Viao or Toshiba, but my girlfriend insisted that she could not afford to pay for a laptop that cost over £650. I ended up picking the Averatec, and I have to admit I was a bit worried when I initially ordered it. I ... ...QuarkXpress running too and the Averatec handles that as well. We also use it to watch movies, which also works pretty well.
The main problem was the fan - the laptop would get really hot in a short space of time eventually (in September - 7 weeks after we got it) the fan failed. I called the customer service people (who are based in Germany) and they were very very helpful. They sent a courier to pick it up the next day and it was returned to me ...
whotook316 15.02.2006
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This notebook pc had everything I wanted for a work pc. Small, light, reasonable size hard disk and good performance. Built in WiFi and USB ports stay powered when charging. Processing power is adequate and the HD is small by contemporary standards. Ditto for the memory. Don't try and run Vista on this. The keyboard does not flex and there is reasonable travel. Thumbs tend to catch the mouse pad and cause spurious "enters." Case feels solid enough. ... ...front of the unit. It is a nice package but unfortunately there is an inherent design fault with the LCD screen backlight inverter. It appears that the inverter connections become resistive over time and as a consequence the inverter packs in and the backlight fails. This is intermittent at first but then becomes permanent. I shelled out £100 shipping to get it fixed (out of warranty) but it soon went again. I now have an Acer. This has been totally ...
pkirmond 06.02.2008
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(+) the quality of his material which casing was not with the reduction affected (-) battery endurance is not too good and will be a bit inconvenient if you have to frequently work ou
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