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  1. Re:Pick Two by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Best Laptop for Going Around the World?

    How about something like a 12'' averatec http://www.averatec.com/products/portable/ultraportable/2371Series.asp

  2. Re:popularity vs. durability by Spoing · · Score: 1 · on Laptops Outsell Desktops
    The question that interests me is: are laptops becoming any more durable?

    Depends on the brand. I've had good sucess with Averatec, specifically this series. Solid feeling, no creeks or parts that bend in when you grab them.

  3. Re:Wait, who cares? by ivan256 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Review of the 8 Hour Tablet: Electrovaya Scribbler

    Check out Averatec. Their convertable notebook/tablet (screen flips to make it a tablet or a notebook) can be had for $799 if you catch a sale at CompUSA. Oh, and they're Athlon XP-M based.

  4. Re:What's the point of "desktop replacements"? by bhtooefr · · Score: 1 · on LinuxCertified LC2430 Laptop Review

    Your laptop was $350, and had all that? I found something that had all that, and weighs 4.5lbs to boot.

  5. Re:Is it just me... by bhtooefr · · Score: 1 · on Apple Announces New iBooks

    Well, this IS a low end box, meant to compete with stuff like this (1666.67MHz), 512KB cache, 266MHz (doubled, though) FSB and stuff like the 2.3GHz 128KB cache craptops that Dell is pushing out.

    Also, the PPC does clock a LOT better than stuff like the Celery, or even the P4. Compare to something like the Pentium M, which isn't a budget processor, or the 512KB cache Celeron M.

  6. Re:Guess they've never seen the Sony X505ZP by foobsr · · Score: 1 · on Sharp Mebius Subnotebook Review

    The more constrained budget might look here.

    CC.

  7. Others use this? by Jerph · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Windows Laptops Ship With Linux Media Player

    Averatec's 6200 series has a similar instant dvd/mp3 function. If this is the same chip, it seems to be cheap and in pretty widespread use - this company has a relatively small US sales base and is offering the system for $1250.

  8. Re:Slashdotted? by Utopia · · Score: 1 · on Tablet PCs Enter Reality

    Here is it on Avertec site:
    C3500 Covertible Notebook

    Note this is not a mirror.

  9. Re:has anybody been able to read this by Kaganar · · Score: 0 · on Tablet PCs Enter Reality

    Averatec's website regarding the C3500:
    http://www.averatec.com/notebooks/C3500.htm

  10. Averatec 3200 series by lateralus_1024 · · Score: 1 · on AMD Launches Low-Voltage Processors

    If you want small and cheap, go for an Averatec
    It's 12.1", 4lbs and has a molten lava AMD mobile proc(2000+), non-removable cdrw/dvd and runs for ~$750,after Best Buy rebate. *ducks*

  11. Re:bad premise by hburch · · Score: 1 · on Why We Need a Second Moore's Law
    My wife bought a cell phone that took ~400ms to scroll one line on a 6 line screen. It is very painful to use. My cell phone, on the other hand, scrolls almost instantaneously. The issue is that her phone is basically running a mini-OS, with configuration options everywhere (change menus, etc.). My phone is not configurable, except in basic ways (e.g., how to show the time on the display). My phone, even though it is older and likely has a worse processor, runs much quicker because it has fewer features than her phone.

    The more CPU you have, the lazier the developers are in optimizing and the more the product managers want to add featuers. This is to be expected: why spend time optimizing an operation that takes 10msec that is only performed when a user presses a button? You could add a whistle intsead with that time.

    As someone who has recently purchased a laptop after much searching, the trend appears to be towards portable desktops. People want laptops to use. Thus, they want to be able to do things like play FPS games on them. FPS games require high-end hardware. Some stores have gone to distinguishing "laptops" from "notebooks" to distinguish a 17" WXGA 9.3lb behemoths from a 12" 4.3lb laptop.

    HP's "ultimate mobility" laptop weighs 6.5lb. To me, that is medium mobility. For "ultimate mobility", I want something under 5 pounds, such as Apple's Powerbook at 4.6 pounds or an Averetec 3150 at 4.3 pounds.

    The hardware vendors seem to think that most people want power, not good mobility (more precisely, they think they can make more money there). If people do want power, than I suspect that notebooks will continue to push closer to desktops in terms of CPU speed.

    Efficiency will not truly be viewed as a problem until Moore's law degrades to doubling every 4-5 years. Only then will software developers slow down on adding features and focus on optimality.

  12. Re:Silly intel by StarWreck · · Score: 1 · on Intel to Increase Stages in Prescott
    Show me a cool running Athlon laptop that runs Photoshop really well for doing digital image stuff out on the road and I might consider it.
    AMD's answer to Centrino is This. With an ultra-low powered Athlon 1600+ you get very simmilar speed, very simmilar battery life. All the "Centrino" extras like Wi-Fi. Plus it weighs about 2 pounds less.
  13. So what actually works? by kotj.mf · · Score: 2, Informative · on Reverse Engineered 802.11b+ Drivers
    This'll probably be at least tangentally addressed later, but what chipsets actually work in Linux? Understand I don't know nuthin about WiFi, other than some vague idea that I should get an Orinco-based card.

    Only reason I'm asking is that the salesdrone at OfficeDepot didn't know what the integrated wireless on the Averatec 3150P was based on yesterday, and I'm not keen on paying an extra hundred bucks for the feature if it won't work in my OS of choice. Then again, I could save myself the dough and get the model w/o the integrated 802.11b, but still...

  14. So what about bottom of the barrell notebooks? by kotj.mf · · Score: 1 · on Three LindowsOS PCs Reviewed
    I could easily see buying one of the desktops to replace my girlfriend's Celeron 450 system. She just browses the web and plays Mah Jong.

    I'm looking for an under-$1000, four or five pound notebook with relatively decent specs to run SuSE on. The Lindows Moblie PC is out... I don't want no steenking Via. I leaning toward a 12" iBook, but then I stumbled across Averatec 3150 series. 12", Athlon Mobile 1600, 30GB, 256MB, CD-RW/DVD, 4.3 pounds, 3 USB 2.0, & PCMCIA for less than a grand, or with integrated 802.11b for just over.

    Has anybody else come across anything similar at the same price? I've still gotta haul my ass to Best Buy to play with one of the Averatecs, and it's gonna be a couple of months before I've got a thousand bucks to drop.