Averatec help

I am looking into buying a laptop from averatec and i was wondering how good a company they are. Do they have good technical support and are their laptops durable. Anyone one who has purchased a averatec laptop any info would be helpful.

 

Laptops are fine, but I can't say the same for the support.
I have got one AV5428HX so called Walmart model. Runs pretty quite and battery life is about 2.5 hours. No prblem so far, expect CPU is AMd-XP-M 2800, but it runs on 1600 Mhz. I have called Averatec support several times, nobody there is able to tell me why it appears to run on 1600 Mhz. Besides that, I am very pleased with this laptop.
Other models seems to be very light and small. That doesn't apply to this model. Good luck.

 

TGI,

I am pretty sure that 1600mhz for the AMD 2800 is about right. You see the Pentium 4's run at their labeled speeds but AMD named their chips so that the consumer knows thats what it is comparable to. So a P4 2.8ghz runs at 2.8ghz but a AMD 2800 runs much lower but produces the same power. So the P4 2.8ghz processes the same as the AMD 2800 regardless of the ghz. Of course certain programs and software are run faster on each processor. Hope this kinda clears it up for you.

By the way I am interested in getting that same laptop you have. Did u pick it instore or did u order it from walmarts site?

John

 

jbeef86,
Thanks for the input. However real clock cycle of this processor is 2000 Mhz. I forgot to wrote that in my first post.
I bought it from walmart online store. It was decent experience until FedUp(Ex) took it's place in the picture. That story and CPU speed worries aside, I would recommend this laptop to all who is thinking about purchasing this for non-gaming purposes.
Integrated wireless card is great, picks up the connections with a heartbeat. Again, video is shared memory. I haven't tried the dvd-w yet. I will run a benchmark test tonight and post the results here tomorrow.