Hasee

has anybody here had any experience with the HASEE brand of notebooks? They're from china. And there are a bunch of 12.1" ones on ebay (here http://cgi.ebay.ca/12-1-Dual-Core-T2130-1-86GHz-2GB-RAM-HASEE-Laptops_W0QQitemZ290187391354QQihZ019QQcategoryZ177QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

i thought it would be nice for me to bring it to school since the 15" is just big and heavy. but i can't justify spending that kind of money on a second laptop no matter how good it is. Just thought it was interesting and something to keep in mind.

 

If that buyer actually bought the laptop you linked to (they've got a -1 feedback), they'll get a pretty good deal...the final bid was almost $200 less than MSRP in China. That seller hawks Hasee laptops on eBay worldwide and that 12.1" model is their bread and butter, as it were. Not bad, with overachieving ATI 200M graphics and a decent, if older, Yonah-based processor. That said, the lid on that model is paper-thin and it takes almost no pressure to ripple the screen.

Hasee is a big company in China and moves a lot of laptops for one reason and one reason alone: they're cheap. Lots of folks in China will tell you they're total garbage, but still, they are cheap. Laptops are pretty expensive compared to North America, so Hasee gets around that by cutting down on distribution and component costs. Lots of their computers use Celeron processors, Via or SiS chipsets, possibly GMA950 and DVD/CDRW combo drives. Moving up, you'll find some lower-end Dual Core chips. Screens tend to have horrendously narrow viewing angles. They're slowly introducing more Core 2 Duo w/ X3100 packages and have some higher-end stuff (like with nVidia 8600 graphics), but I would never sink $800-$1000 into a Hasee laptop.

 

I know that this product has a low end brand image. I would feel that way about it also, however I am in China, and I have a friend who purchased their high end product and I like it better then other U.S. brand products for the same price and it also looks nice.

The price that I saw online (ebay) is the same as the street price so this seller is selling at the same Chinese street value.

It's not a discount but it's not over priced either.

 

I haven't seen Hasee, but I think MSI 12-incher would be better choice for around the same price (they also may have different rebranded names).

I suspect that Hasee is not using magnesium alloy case which is an essential drawback. It is better to add 100$ for it if you plan to carry your lappy around.

If you want a small lappy for every day use, don't buy power. Look for a light one with low or ultra low voltage processor. I would strongly recommend to purchase on ebay smth like Dell X300 or Thinkpad X40. Pentium M ULV has sufficient power for all your office applications. I use one myslef (latitude x1).

 

seems like they've updated their model again.
This time with Intel GMA X3100. Then even installed XP Pro and Office 2003 this time, whereas it was Linux last time around. But seems the amount of RAM and the DVD burner took a hit.

A couple of months does make a difference. It really does look like they are slowly advancing and making things better.

As long as they bring good quality competition and can make it to North America, i'm all for it! I'm quite impressed by the price. the HDD itself can cost up to $150.

http://cgi.ebay.ca/12-1-Dual-Core-T2370-1GB-DDR-120HD-XP-HASEE-Laptop_W0QQitemZ350034718169QQihZ022QQcategoryZ177QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262

I can't wait until the summer when EEE PC2, CloudBook2, MSI Wind, Acer are gonna come out with their mini laptops. Heat things up a little and get some competition going.

 

This shop sells Hasee laptops in Germany:

http://www.tinxi.de/index.php?cPath=178&osCsid=ocrim7haikkmvs0t7o3voqa9d4

 

wow. thats a random find! Seems things in Europe cost more. Looks like the unit they are selling is older using ATi x200m, at a higher price than the one from eBay.

i don't think i could spend that much money on another laptop if my current 15" is still running fine.

 

I'll tell you my experience:

I live in Beijing and I regret having bought a Hasee laptop. Only one year after I bought it, a small piece inside the computer broke and no one could fix it because it was very difficult to buy a replacement piece. It took me more than 1 month until I found a dodgy repair guy that was able to find the piece for the laptop. And the piece - where the VGA port is located - was unbelievingly expensive.

Until it broke I thought I had made the perfect buy because it was small and cheap although a little noisy but I should have listened to my Chinese friends not to buy anything from this brand because of its cheap/bad quality. Now besides the bad quality I can add poor after-sales customer service...

This happened in China were the computers are made, imagine if anything happens to your laptop in Europe! Don't buy a Hasee, in the end they are not as cheap as they seem.​

 

I am using a Hasee now. I bought it two weeks ago.
Still there's no hardware failure as it's new. But I have to warn you that their customer supporting page is totally rubbish. And there's no use to send email to them. They never reply it.

EDIT: forgot to tell. It has the crappiest BIOS I've ever seen. Only time/date and boot order are available. Don't know if it happens only on my model or all the Hasee notebooks.

 

I bough 15 Hasee laptops ONE year and TWO months ago. NEVER again. Broke down. (I can use the hard drive, that's about all) Repair? Forget about it. I wanted to provide cheap laptops for schools in Africa. I wasted my money. SAD

 

Which parts of it broke?

 

Hi Bought a Hasee 12.1 Dual core, 2gb ram, 120gb hard drive around eighteen months ago, when it arrived I really wondered what possessed me to buy this, as the case was very flimsy, and I would be carrying this around with me and i really didn't think it would last, well eighteen months later it's still running without problem, I may be just lucky, and I accept the materials used in the case could be better, I had a sony vaio before, but this laptop cost £300, whereas a new vaio was nearly three times that price for the small 12.1 size screen

 

Hasee, I like them. I'm here in china. I've been here now 5yrs. It's one of the few Chinese products I can recommend.

I want t to keep this short, so first let me tell you a 'little' story of the big names. You know, HP, DELL, Acer. First I might say it depends as always on what you want ot do with your computer. More importantly what you want to 'run' on it. Now there are enough 'known' choices these days.

Enough people 'have' heard of linux of some sort or other. I had two HP's that I went through much trouble to order from US and ship here. Because I didn't trust their manufacturing here even if it was the same brand. Long story short. I have one totally disfuctional 1000 USD comptuer that is barely 7-8 months old, babied and hardly used. It likely wouldn't have lasted this long if I hadn't used linux and I hate my computers to get hot so I have a habit of scaling down the processors unless I'm doing something. (Digital conversions, music, video.)

I looked it up when the 'problems' started. tx1000 overheating due to bad design. An HP pavilion that has a dead wifi? Why? Again a computer I used not that often. A dead DVD writer... optical drive.

My wife has an asus, she's Chinese and considered herself fortunate that hers was made in Taiwan not China. (Bad optical drive, fan died on it, but it was 2yrs old.)

What am I getting at here? Well, we have all been gaga over how much cheaper computers are getting... the price is just that. U get what you pay for.

They all pull from the common parts bin and on a lot of the so called big names, what I've noticed is a very blatent attempt to 'force' users away from Xp or anything else, and ot use Vista or Win7. Parts that you simply can't get drivers for. It is true that XP is dated, but it's also true Vista has lots of issues and I still can't believe that they couldn't make Win 7 take less than 15g on a fresh install. But in some countries, like here, it's 7g fresh install but lacking something.

I honestly don't know nor care, I was just told by my students who are all into windows. I don't use windows. Here in China, most Hasee come with Linux. I therefore find them wonderful for what I run because I don't have to 'struggle' with special gimmicky parts to get a fully functional computer...

Now as far as I can tell, Hasee does lot bulk buying. I mean all the big names are pushing this Vista envelope. So here are all these 'parts' lying around that the vendors are dying to get rid of... bulk lot, cheap price.

This is why, the Hasee models chnage fast and I do mean fast. They sell out and they won't be made again. SO a big name has a shelf life on a model of maybe a year? But some Hasee's model lasts as long ast the parts do, and sometimes that might be only 3-4months.

Now, I am typing this to you on a 10.1in Hasee Netbook. Which I am quite happy with. What are the shortcomings you ask? I will tell you.

Hasee makes a straight no gimmick non-fancy computer. If it works, then it will probably keep working. If it comes broken, well I have reviewed for hours and days and all the brands you name and theirs come broken too... just think on it.

You can buy 2 or 3 Hasee at some of the prices of the big names. As someone mentioned, they are improving that is better offering, and better quality at a good price. (what HP used to be, after all here is a compay that supposedly partners with Novell Linux, but makes some machines that are really a pain to run a modern Linux distro on. Or how about Dell, sell you a Linux machine with a part in it that is incompatible with linux. No joke, found the post on that one, why one guy said he had to send it back.)

SO I guess if you want Vista maybe for Vista machines may give you teh best experience. Maybe. You can run anything on a Hasee, Xp still and if you can run XP of course you can run Vista or Win7. I of course cna run Linux with no trouble.

I have 3 linuxes here and my wifes Xp that came with the netbook.

SO on to this 10.1. I have read some forums about people installing to the Acer Aspire 1 or other such, and the Asus eee's, and it seems to reqiure some extra steps. All I did was plug in the usb optical drive and install my Linux. Same goes for Xp or whatever. She has 2g of ram here, and apparently two core atom processors? No joke, I read 2 cores consistently with whatever Linux I run here. 1 linux is hers, for backup when Xp crashes, China is virus city, and one is a build I'm actually doing to give to students and the other is what I use now. Especially now I have no computer to do my lesson plans on... thanks HP.

It doesn't have all that power saving stuff I guess, like the big names. Whatever it is that gives you 5-6hrs by slowing your processor down to a crawl?

I can actually play some 3D games here. I mean I'm not a gamer, it's what I an find with Linux, Some FPS, a particular game I like, Glest stratagy kind of thing. Some race games with 3D graphics. Nothing intense, but I think it's rather nice I can since this isn't a ntebook advertising any of those so called new alliances with Nvidia or Ati ro something to play HD video.

So maybe the battery life might be your shortcoming, Hasee's idea was simple. Extra batter, 2nd one is a bit bigger so you can get about 5-6hrs depending on what you're doing. I got 2.5hrs in linux using it on powersave.

I managed to compress and make an iso image in battery mode overiding the 800mhz powersave speed. Not too bad at all for me, but as I said, what you want to do with it.

160g HDD. (Toshiba if you want to know it's brand.) 2g ram.

I was seriously annoyed in fact that it seemed to perform better than my HP with two Turions in it and 2.1ghz. (But then I could never let my HP get above 800 too often or it would get extremely hot and that was before I knew about the overheating issues.)

If you want a straight forward no nonsense computer. I think Hasee will do for you. If you want gimmicks, you want a fashion accessory or bragging rights. Go buy something else then and good for you if you hvae that kind of money to toss about.

I consider it also like luxo cars. I personally don't like luxo cars on the basis that the more crap on my car, the more things I need to upkeep or fix as it ages.

Simpler the better.

As for 'fixing' or reparing? I don't know. I've read so many reviews, I don't see where the big names are really any better... and you pay so much more.

Here in China, I really haven't any problem if I have to take it in, but I have not had to take a Hasee in...

I have a 13.3in that I use at school. Give lessons on. I should, but I don't, blow it out, it's covered in chalk dust, before I bought the HP 12.1in it was my travel computer. It went to school with me, it went with me to see my wife in another city while I was courting every weekend... if I went out of town, it went with me to hotels (internet or just to watch a dvd). I still have it, it's still going quite well.

I upped the memory finally. It's running a single Turion 1.6ghz and 750mb of ram. I am now considering putting a bigger HD in it cause at the time I bought it, it only had 40gb. (I don't consider this Hasee's fault, the computer works fine, but as always beware of dodgy salesmen. I wanted basic, not super 3D graphics, but I wanted an AMD. I would have bought the same modle with an Intel chipset but the salesman swore up and down that I could get the AMD and it was the exact same. Here in China, I have found that a lot of sales folk don't know their head from a certain rear exiting orafice.

Needless to say, I got a rather cheap SiS chipset that has non existent 3D rendering. A bit of a let down, but fortunately, it's not for gaming cause I use consoles not my comptuers for such. SO it was no great loss.

I now recommend my students to buy Hasee here in China because, this is the land of fakes, and a teacher last year ended up with a 'deal' on an ACER, of course it was a deal cause it definately wasn't an ACER... she now has a Hasee 12.1in she's happy with. (I told her to quite trying to find a deal and buy the Hasee. It is what it is, and no one will try to cheat her because normally some of the big names here often cost more than they do in the states and for less computer...)

I will also liley be replacing my dead HP 12.1in media computer, which is rather heavy and weight more like a 14in computer, with a Hasee 12.1in. I wanted the Hasee HP260 or HP280. I think abroad you guys can get them from retailers or on Ebay or whatever. No ebay here, and I don't trust their version of it. It's sold out. There's a 240, which is like dirt cheap, I mean it's closer to the price of a netbook. However, I do run Linux and want a chipset that will give me 64bit to play with in the future. (If I choose. If I don't at least I do have the choice.)

Since I'm rather low on computer funds at the moment, I am looking at this model that will be replacing those I just mentioned above...

http://www.hasee.com/en/Product_Index_En.html?product_index=1&productid=1844&prodid=92

Not bad, the HP280 only comes with a 250gb HDD but it did have a P6800 core 2 processor. At 2.4ghz.

This thing has up to 4gb of ram available and 320gb hd, (I may not swap it out for a 500gb after all) and from the intel processor range mentioned it will be at least around the range of the HP280. They won't hit stores in China though till they manage to liquidate their old stock and that's not bad either cause the old stock isn't bad and it leads to some great deals...

I would still buy the HP280 if I could find one but I can't, just because I would rather get a nice deal on a replacement.

Well darn, too long anyway. But that's Hasee... the guy who wanted to buy them in Africa didn't give details, but who and how did he buy the computers?

China is the land of fakes and you must be careful who you buy from. They will cheat you blind. The trouble we had getting taht teachers money back from the fake ACER, they showed no remorse, no shame, and not even any concept that they did anything wrong and this is still after the police had to get involved...

I know that a lot of business goes on between China and Africa, so again, maybe some detail on whom he purchased them through?

Still... for a simple computer that works, well. The price is right as many others have said.

For myself and everyone that I suggested buy one, they work. My 13.3in is the same age as my Pavilion, and the Pavilion is the one that's apparently showing the age and it's used the least...

But just like I did a review recently on 1TB hard drives and then decided at the moment not to buy one, it's just like a game of chance. The prices are low now, and the quality is too... I read so many reviews where people just got bad 1TB drives and from 'names' in the HDD business...

keep your papers, send it back if it's broke, get another or if you don't like it, get the money and play the chance game with someone else...

 

Hay, sorry about the typos, 10.1 in keyboard... definately not used to it. This was for the wife to carry to work. I don't like anything smaller than 12.1 in. Cause I touch type. I always mis-key here, is that a word? Teaching Eng in a foreign country does interesting things to your own English.

By the way, the battery was a package deal, so no extra for the battery. Just got two.

That 2.5hrs I get is with the smaller battery. We've never used the extra in fact speaking of which, I did pay 100USD for an Xtra for my dead HP. (By the way. Nice food for thought. I ordered my Hp tx1000 custom made from USA. It was about 400-500 more to buy it here and no custom options in China. Well, when it shipped out, it shipped from Shanghai China... so next time you think you don't want a computer made in China... make it yourself I guess.)

So another reason I seriously buy Hasee. I suppose their's a linux freindly brand, that's what I use. But what is it? I don't see the point in paying twice the price for the same parts and then some extra parts that for me just give me extra trouble or work around. Or just for a name.

For others, they just want to send email and browse the web and know less and care less about hardware and so on, so unless they're brandname conscious why pay twice as much if you needn't?

Did I mention this thing has an LED screen? I know that's like the new thing now.

At least I see a lot of computers here and the salemen act like it's a wonderful excuse to up the price...

 

Hi there

I agreeded the cost compare to sony it burned most people pocket. I too would buy Hasee laptop. after all people needed treat every laptop like holding to an egg not a sheet of metal, it don't matter how strong the case all laptop build but the display screen it so easy to damage.
here is some bargain site: http://www.dhwelectronics.com/

 

Re: Hasee

How can all 15 laptop broken? it must be you all rain dancing on top of those laptop.

 

Re: Hasee

Hasee is not a litter shed in the back garden, it china largest computer manufactory. http://www.hasee.com/en/index.html. all the building around them are accommodation of there workers. you may needs to find down what other well know brand name building inside there factory!!!

 

Re: Hasee

It sound to me that broken piece inside your laptop sound like you try to connect your VGA output to bigger screen, being you have no patient to screw in VGA cable to laptop VGA output, so when you un done the VGA output the threaded srcew took out the screw tap so the nut inside where it holded output VGA loosed. you so lucky that nut didn't short circuit the component inside your laptop. I can not see any things inside can be lose unless some physical touch from out side.

 

Help... I am a bit dumb in respect to this laptop.. I do love it.. had it for 3 years now.. never a problem... what I need now is to upgrade it .. i.e. add extra RAM.. since I do not have any manuals I looked up how to change RAM on the web, everything seems so basic.. but when I turn around my hasee 12.1" and open the small lid which seems to be the RAM slot .. it seems like it is the hard drive slot.. and I am scared of opening it.. anyone can help me.. I want to upgrade it to 4gb.. will I be able to do this?