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    2150-EH1 Turion 64 User Opinions (Happy with your lapop)

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by Dealfindr, Jun 16, 2006.

  1. Dealfindr

    Dealfindr Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just wondering what were some of the people's opinions about this product. I'm looking for something ultraportable, realitively fast with upgradable memory (but at least 0.5GIG), good battery life, and a reasonable price. All else is negotiable.

    The Turion 64 Chip is a definite pro.

    Good? Bad? Thanks for sharing.

    -dF
     
    Dealfindr, Jun 16, 2006
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  2. Andrew Baxter

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    Andrew Baxter, Jun 17, 2006
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  3. Geckoboy86

    Geckoboy86 Notebook Consultant

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    i have and absolutely love it. for the price you pay you get alot
    only afew problems but when weighed with cost are not to big.

    battery life is a mere 1:30minutes but an extened batter will push you well over 3:00

    No recovery disks(i does however have a hidden recovery partition)

    Ram...there could be alittle more due to the sharing with graphics

    all of those arent big...i recommend this laptop
     
    Geckoboy86, Jun 17, 2006
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  4. Modoc

    Modoc Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just got one 5 days ago for $699 and I'm really impressed with it so far. The aforementioned review is pretty spot-on with all the pros and cons of this model. I would recommend it to anyone. I've researched pretty much all of the Averatec ultra-portables and the 2100 series is the only one that receives consistently positive reviews.
     
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  5. Geckoboy86

    Geckoboy86 Notebook Consultant

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    key note to remember...the 2100 is not designed by averatec nor some other minor company

    the 2100 was made by MSI...which is a highly ranked PC maker....especially in he world of desktops but now they are catching up in the notebook area aswell...
     
    Geckoboy86, Jun 18, 2006
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  6. Thaenatos

    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    With the mods I have I get around 3.5-4.5 hours of battery life without rmclock. As far as performance goes its slightly quicker then my 3.2ghz HT and on par when OC'd to 3.54ghz. It plays all the games I play (BF2, UT2003/2004, ghost recon, and tons of rts games), compiles/runs my .java files with ease, multitasks very well for a single core cpu, and boots pretty fast too. Now mind you this is on a sloppy format, My HDD needs to be reformatted and windows re-installed, as well as partitioning the HDD into 2 40gb partitions will free up a lot of performance. I also plan to run vista 64 and xp pro in a dual boot.

    Hopefully with that done and a slot dvd burner installed, this pc will be set and I wont need an upgrade for many years.
     
    Thaenatos, Jun 19, 2006
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