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Bought the $800 Averatec with M10 64mb

post #1 of 30
11/24/04 at 12:25pm
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Talked gf into buying the Averatec AV5500.

Sempron 2600+ (K8)
256mb PC2700 (will upgrade with one more 256 for 512)
Radeon 9600 64mb dedicated
40G HDD
CDRW+DVD
802.11g
15"XGA
6.8lbs

$809+6 s/h From Newegg

Will post review once I get to play with it. Now we can play HL2 together! Wheee!

Praying to pixel gods....
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post #2 of 30
11/24/04 at 12:28pm
Whoa, nice buy, that's damn cheap
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post #3 of 30
11/24/04 at 12:42pm
That is a good deal in that there's a dedicated GPU and the processor isn't a celeron.
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post #4 of 30
11/24/04 at 12:59pm
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Originally Posted by XSternMinator
Talked gf into buying the Averatec AV5500.

Sempron 2600+ (K8)
256mb PC2700 (will upgrade with one more 256 for 512)
Radeon 9600 64mb dedicated
40G HDD
CDRW+DVD
802.11g
15"XGA
6.8lbs

$809+6 s/h From Newegg

Will post review once I get to play with it. Now we can play HL2 together! Wheee!

Praying to pixel gods....
I think my friend is thinking of buying that laptop. Plz post a comprehensive review on it ;p.
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post #5 of 30
11/24/04 at 5:30pm
that is dirt cheap for a non-celery cpu and dedicated GPU. though i am happy it came out now, not when i was shopping because (even though i would have saved $700) that lappy wouldn't last me long, i am happy i nearly doubled my budget to end up with what i have.
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post #6 of 30
11/24/04 at 8:08pm
Yes, please post a review as soon as you get it! I'm really considering getting this one.
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post #7 of 30
11/24/04 at 10:04pm
Just got an email from Averatec Sales the AV5500 has SIS760 interagrated
video not ATI9600 they said that Newegg,MWave ect. made a mistake.
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post #8 of 30
11/24/04 at 10:44pm
Why would so many sites make the same mistake?
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post #9 of 30
11/24/04 at 10:54pm
Eww that could get ugly. It is listed at a LOT of sites as having the M10 (9600)
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post #10 of 30
11/24/04 at 11:48pm
pretty hot for that price if it has the 9600 pro turbo card.. i dont think newegg advertised it as 9600 dedicated video card though.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...149-017&depa=0

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec....iteria=3602850

mwave doesn't mention any 9600 card either.
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post #11 of 30
11/24/04 at 11:56pm
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Originally Posted by afobisme
pretty hot for that price if it has the 9600 pro turbo card.. i dont think newegg advertised it as 9600 dedicated video card though.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...149-017&depa=0

It is clearly advertised on thier site as having the " ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600 64MB". Look at the system specs ("Detailed Specifications"), in particular the one listed under "Graphics" towards the bottom of the page.
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post #12 of 30
11/25/04 at 12:02am
Check for yourself the manual which I downloaded states it has SIS760,makes
sence because it uses sis 760 chipset,same as the A64 Averatec 6210,I saw one in CC and it has SIS 760 video.
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post #13 of 30
11/25/04 at 12:04am
I believe you that it has the SIS VGA, it's just bad news that every site selling them has them advertised as having an M10. That leads one to think Averatec made the mistake in listing the specs originally. They may be held accountable for lots of return shipping
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post #14 of 30
11/25/04 at 12:13am
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The laptop shipped already, and will receive it on Friday.

We shall see.

Amazon, Buy.com, Ecost, NewEgg etc...they all advertised with M10.
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post #15 of 30
11/25/04 at 12:31am
you know you can reject the notebook and avoid the disputing the shipping costs.
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post #16 of 30
11/25/04 at 1:19am
averatec is located in asia right? so it might be possible that the company produces two different versions of the 5500, one for asian markets and one for the US market (with the 9600). I cant be sure though.
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post #17 of 30
11/25/04 at 1:48am
damn sorry to hear that dude!
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post #18 of 30
11/26/04 at 7:12pm
Any word on this thing yet?
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post #19 of 30
11/27/04 at 2:57am
I noticed that both Newegg and Mwave no longer say it has an ATI9600,they
don't list any video card.
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post #20 of 30
11/27/04 at 12:01pm
They haven't got word to Buy.com yet about the wrong specs. They still list it with the 9600.
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