Averatec's 15.4-inch 6700 "desktop replacement"

These days, a "desktop replacement" laptop often sports a 17-inch LCD, desktop processor or dual hard drives, but while the new Averatec 6700 bothers with none of those, it still manages some decent specs as far as AMD laptops go. Pulling processor duties is an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 2GHz chip, accompanied by 2GB of RAM, a 120GB HDD, DVD super-multi burner, ATI Radeon Express 1100 graphics and the usual connectivity frills to be found in a mid-range 15-incher. The 1280 x 800 15.4-inch LCD could do with a few more pixels, but Averatec did squeeze in Vista Home Premium for the 1,399,000 won asking price, about $1504 US.

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[Steve Shickles @ May 3rd 2007 10:39PM]

Not a bad price tag for a desktop replacement laptop.

[Charles W. @ May 3rd 2007 10:39PM]

HP had a similar set up to this already at costco for $300 less.

[Zadillo @ May 3rd 2007 10:42PM]

OK, I have to say I'm missing it. What exactly makes this laptop a "desktop replacement" laptop? Aside from only being a 15.4" laptop, the specs all seem pretty average...... it seems indistinguishable from most other middle-of-the-road 15.4" notebooks, none of which I've ever seen described as DTR's.

[darkman131 @ May 3rd 2007 11:29PM]

Zadillo: it has less battery life.

[Nushio @ May 4th 2007 12:03AM]

As an Averatec customer, I'm forced to say that their brand is worthless.

I bought a Tablet PC from them, a C3500. The laptop's battery is about 20 mins, with WiFi turned off. It overheats. It overheats so much, it shuts off itself to save it from exploding (At least it doesnt pack a Sony-made battery, heh).

The stylus doesnt work that well either. I regret not getting the Acer tablet, as my cousin recommended.

Not sure about 'this year's model', but I would never buy another Averatec product in my life.

[Jon @ May 4th 2007 2:36AM]

I'm dislike putting brands down from my singular experience - but I think Averatec is a brand that should be avoided at ALL COSTS. Yes, their laptops are cheap - thats why I bought a 6100 in the first place. But that "cheap" comes at a price, their techs suck - and they NEVER EVER update their drivers, unless they are forced to. So while you'll get a decent graphics card, after a few months the drivers will be so out of date, it will be useless for games.

This is exactly what happened to me. I bought my 6100 and a year later they still had not updated the drivers even once. I called and begged and begged, with no avail. I ended up filling several complaints with the BBB, which managed to get them to update their drivers - once. Once in the entire life of this laptop. Now, I know drivers might not be a big deal to some - but this give you an idea of their level of customer service.

Averatec's moto should be "You bought, your Sh$t out of luck".

[Joe schneider @ May 4th 2007 9:39AM]

What!?

How can a notebook even come CLOSE to being considered a desktop replacement with a Radeon Express 1100 chip? I could be wrong, but anytime i've seen that video chipset, it's been integrated.

So tell me why I should spend this amount of $$ on a sub-standard brand with horrible customer service and no capacity for self-service with integrated video?

How about we really take a look at the details of these things before we just throw a company's press release up on the main page? I mean, i've been searching for 15 minutes and I can't find any information that states what size memory is allocated for the graphic adapter.

Gizmodo-folksen, can you get this info? It's kind of a big deal if you're going to sell a "desktop replacement" notebook which is going to even think of running Vista Home Premium with its basic capabilities.

Come on, guys!

[Joe schneider @ May 4th 2007 4:18PM]

eek. ...and there lies the biggest problem of feed-reading. Especially when you read two blogs that usually post simultaneous, almost-identical articles pretty consistently.

Yeah. This is Engadget. NOT Gizmodo. Sorry, guys.