Averatec 1050 vs. FSC Lifebook P7010 - what you think?

From experience, if you think the Lifebook is of somewhat questionable quality, then the Averatec will really disapoint you. Unless Averatec has made some major quality changes, stay clear.

I think the Fujitsu is in excellent quality other than the scn is taking up some dust and the mouse botton get a bit loose after some use. Overall is pretty good. I used to have an Averatec 1050 before, you will be kicking yourself if you sell your fujitsu to buy one. I can make you a list of reason why you shouldn't buy one.

Agree.... agree... agree....

Hallo BrutalerHai (^_^)

You might get lucky and purchase an Averajunk that isn't a lemon. Those things have VERY poor build.
The three Fujitsu notebooks in my lab have much better build quality than the Averacrap although I have never personally played with the P7010.

If your interested in the Panasonics than I highly recommend the W4, or Y4, two of our Japanese post Docs have them and I am VERY impressed with their quality.

viel glueck

As for Aver* 1050

1. LCD flashes frequently
2. Hot
3. touchpad jumps around
4. relatively cheap made (the plastic on it look cheap)
5. very difficult to upgrade memory
6. non removable optical drive
7. no dvdrw option
8. crazily weak speaker (worse than the P serie)
9. screen is bright, but is matte and not even comparable to P serie lcd
10. box comes with nothing only a piece of recovery disc instruction
11. no recovery discs like fujitsu
12. headphone plug = very noisy
13. wireless jumps on/off badly, range sucks
14. well, no p-m 1.2ghz offer
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maybe i can list more by looking at the picture i took when I still have my 1050.. lol, i can say for the price of it <1000, it's not a bad choice, but it you already have a P serie, why?

I had an Averatec 1050 for 5 months, and it was a great laptop. I returned it to Costco simply because I wanted to upgrade to the Toshiba S205-U5002, which was actually 100$ cheaper than what I paid for the 1050.

My (underline anecdotal!) experience with the 1050eb-1 was thus:

1) LCD never flashed. It was a great screen, although I dislike glossy finish on screens.

2) It was hot, yes. Not dangerously so, but pretty warm. I think all laptops get warm, though.

3) Touchpad sucked for the first couple of weeks, but it drastically improved after my fingers had worn down the finish. For some reason they painted over the toucpad. Also, upgrading the drivers to the official Elantech REALLY helped.

4) It looks cheap but I found it to be surprisingly durable. There is no flex when you pick it up, and the screen opens and closes very smoothly.

5) Memory was easy to get to, although I never upgraded it. I tore mine down to clean it a couple of times and it was no more or less difficult than any other laptop.

6) Wrong. Not my experience, you are just plain mistaken about that.

7) True, althouhg the new 1150 does come with a dual layer DVDRW. And it's not the gay maroon color.

8) Well, it is an ultraportable. I've never heard a laptop speaker that wasn't crap. I use the Audio Advantage Micro USB sound card if I need to play games or listen to music.

9) Actually, it has a glossy screen, not matte. The 1050eb1 had one of the best screens I have ever seen on a laptop. Shame it WASNT matte, actually.

10) Recovery partitions are nothing new. Virtually every new laptop has them. I don't really see what the big deal is, as most of hte software on the partition is garbage anyway.

11) true

12) yes, what laptop headphone jack isn't?

13) Not on mine it didn't.

14) I found the 1 GHZ P-M ULV to be fast enough. The apps I ran on a regular basis were: Verilogger, PSPICE, PSPICE Capture, Matlab, Maple, Openoffice, Photoshop, Acrobat, and 1337player. Games that ran acceptably were Serious Sam, Hitman 1&2, GTA: SA (on 640x480), Baldur's Gate series, Deus Ex. If there are processors that are faster and consume less power, they are probably in notebooks 2x the price.

I agree, though, that if you already have a Fujitsu, and you can afford to keep it, do so. Fujitsu is the undisputed watermark for ultraportables. I'm just saying that I found the 1050-eb1 to be a great machine with very few weaknesses.

I found that maybe I am just an unlucky individual who got a lemon Averacrap, I found that the 1050 really subpar compare to the P7010 I have right now. Going to the unofficial averatec forum, you will find that majority of 1050 owner suffer the same problem as mine, like LCD flashes, jumpy cursors, super noisy headphone jack (well my Fujitsu has very good signal on the headphone jack, I think if you say what laptop jack isn't? I can say Fujitsu, Asus and Probably IBM... Toshiba's quality is questionable as well to certain models, honestly, older Toshiba are in better quality than the newer ones, that's why I switched).

As of now, I found that 1050 is still around 899-1199 range, while you can get a similar specs Fujtisu on eBay from Fujitsu store for about 1200-1300, I don't see why anyone should get a Averatec. For sure is that if you already have a Fujitsu, we all agree that you should keep it.