Averatec (3150H ) (SL3150HW-01) PC Notebook

Pros: Compact, light, fast enough, can burn CD's and play DVD's.
Cons: Keyboard crowded, low speaker volume, gets very warm.

I've been teaching a computer class and prefer to run my presentations, etc. on my own computer. Bringing my desktop quickly became tired and my hand-me-down 200 MHz notebook computer was too slow and getting somewhat unreliable. I went shopping for a ...

Pros: Small, Light, Good Performance
Cons: Quality issues such as wireless card that died and stuck LCD pixel

Why I Chose this Unit Over Others: I purchased this laptop because of its size... I was in the market for a laptop with a 12" screen. The other laptop I was considering was a 12" LCD Sony Vaio. The Vaio goes for around $1700, so the Averatec went to ...

Pros: Extremely inexpensive after discounts and rebates Reasonably fast Lightweight
Cons: Severe overheating problems USB ports iffy Slow hard drive Overheating can cause laptop death

I purchased an Averatec 3150 over a year ago. I was first attracted to it by it's size and price; on a 12.1 inch frame, it weighed about 4.3 pounds and cost me (after discounts and rebates, but before tax) about $600. With a reasonable 256MB of RAM and a ...

Pros: Light weight and small. Love the CD burner and the DVD player.
Cons: No built in wireless or DVD burner.

I received this laptop as a graduation gift in 2004, it has never given me a single problem, and still works great to this day. I have never had a problem with the fan or power supply or any of the other things I've read about that seem to be common ...

Pros: FAST! Reliable, ULTRA-portable, cheap! and plays older games well
Cons: Cheap plastic feel, battery sometimes gets loose, keyboard too small, bad placement for speakers

Well, I was in San Antonio at the time (8/22/03) I saw my dad's Huge Toshiba with a 15" screen that he just bought, and that got me to think, I started to search for laptops at night and see what I could come up with, I sniffed around Ebay and looked at ...

Pros: Ultralight notebook under $1000 with internal CD-RW/DVD
Cons: Fragile screen. Customer service is unresponsive, disorganized, untrustworthy, frustrating, horrible.

This laptop is too good to be true: under four pounds, internal CD-RW/DVD, less than $1000, stylish and swift and bright. Its nearest competitor is almost a thousand bucks more. I hadn't heard of the company before (it used to be Sotec), but I read a few ...

Pros: Styling is good! Case is sturdy!
Cons: Serious quality control issues!! Service cant help much in case of serious issues.

This is a nice sturdy laptop, but Averatec needs to spend a lot more time and effort to resolve numerous quality control issues. Right out of the box, the sound card would not work and after calling a friendly customer support, they told me to restore it ...

Pros: Small and light.
Cons: Lots of problems, lots of shipping costs to get it fixed.

Since purchasing this laptop new we have had nothing but trouble. We have had it for under a year and have had to mail it to the factory (at $30.00 a pop) for a bad CD drive, USB port, and cooling fan, and now it has a bad display and we will have to send it back again. These items are covered under warranty, but it is costing a small fortune just on shipping, in addition to the fact that I am without it for a couple of weeks at a time. I would not recommend this laptop at all.

Pros: small, quick, great price.
Cons: hot, only 1 ctrl key.

I've only had "Precious" for 7 months and I'm hopelessly in love. She is small and light and quick. She does get hot and purrs a bit loudly, but hasn't crashed once (I have NEVER been able to say that about a desktop after 1 week!). Got her at buy.com for $950 and they threw in a Linksys wireless router.

Pros: Size Not lacking in anything Sleek Tough
Cons: Fan is loud for 3 seconds on bootup The side-keys on the keyboard are small.

This is a really small laptop that has all the punches.

All the essentials are included (512MB Ram, 30GB HDD, 32MB Video, Internal Wireless, USB 2.0, DVD/CDRW, Ethernet/Modem).

There is no one feature that really stands out about this laptop; but everything is up to par. Overall, this is very convenient as a travel and presentation laptop, but the hard drive and tiny size makes it impractical for it to sit as a desknote.

It's a real bang for the buck... under $800 when equivalently sized Vaio's are over $1.5k.