AVERATEC 3260

Advantages Amazing value for money, very portable, all round good performance
Disadvantages Terrible for gaming, overheats, tinny speakers

...I bought my Averatec 3260 last August (£520 delivered from Savastore). Me and my girlfriend were looking to buy a laptop and we wanted to split the cost. I travel a lot in my job, so I wanted an ultraportable and was pushing for a Sony Viao or Toshiba, but my girlfriend insisted that she could not afford to pay for a laptop that cost over £650. I ended up picking the Averatec, and I have to admit I was a bit worried when I initially ordered it. I had never heard of the company and I was worried about customer service should anything go wrong. When it arrived we were quite happy. It wasn't bundled with any great software but it ran all the software we put on it pretty smoothly. The 512MB RAM is quite impressive for a laptop (Dell still kit out most of their desktops with 512MB RAM as standard) and means that the Averetec multitasks... Read review

Advantages Nice package - small, light, cheap
Disadvantages unreliable.

...This notebook pc had everything I wanted for a work pc. Small, light, reasonable size hard disk and good performance. Built in WiFi and USB ports stay powered when charging. Processing power is adequate and the HD is small by contemporary standards. Ditto for the memory. Don't try and run Vista on this. The keyboard does not flex and there is reasonable travel. Thumbs tend to catch the mouse pad and cause spurious "enters." Case feels solid enough. and there is a proper volume control on the front of the unit. It is a nice package but unfortunately there is an inherent design fault with the LCD screen backlight inverter. It appears that the inverter connections become resistive over time and as a consequence the inverter packs in and the backlight fails. This is intermittent at first but then becomes permanent. I... Read review