I recently stumbled upon a new tablet PC today at Costco called the Averatec
C3500. Does anyone know anything about this computer company? The tablet
seems to be fully loaded and has the best screen that I have seen to date.
And the clincher is that its only $1279 comes with an AMD XP-M. Does anyone
have one or know anything about the qulity of the product this company
makes?
--tony

Hi,
The Averatec C3500 is the very first Tablet PC they have sold. Further
this is the first Tablet PC that uses the AMD 64 bit processor. So this
product represents a couple of firsts for Averatec.

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"Microsoft" <ajdata@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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>I recently stumbled upon a new tablet PC today at Costco called the
>Averatec
> C3500. Does anyone know anything about this computer company? The tablet
> seems to be fully loaded and has the best screen that I have seen to date.
> And the clincher is that its only $1279 comes with an AMD XP-M. Does
> anyone
> have one or know anything about the qulity of the product this company
> makes?
> --tony
>
>

It's a good entry point Tablet PC. It will probably be fairly popular with
students who don't want to pay the higher price of other Tabet PCs, yet want
the capability of a Tablet.

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"Microsoft" <ajdata@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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>I recently stumbled upon a new tablet PC today at Costco called the
>Averatec
> C3500. Does anyone know anything about this computer company? The tablet
> seems to be fully loaded and has the best screen that I have seen to date.
> And the clincher is that its only $1279 comes with an AMD XP-M. Does
> anyone
> have one or know anything about the qulity of the product this company
> makes?
> --tony
>
>

Lora did a quick overview the other and slashdot picked up the link.

http://www.whatisnew.com/article1877.html

Not a bad little unit.

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"Microsoft" <ajdata@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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>I recently stumbled upon a new tablet PC today at Costco called the
>Averatec
> C3500. Does anyone know anything about this computer company? The tablet
> seems to be fully loaded and has the best screen that I have seen to date.
> And the clincher is that its only $1279 comes with an AMD XP-M. Does
> anyone
> have one or know anything about the qulity of the product this company
> makes?
> --tony
>
>

terri wrote:
> It's a good entry point Tablet PC. It will probably be fairly
> popular with students who don't want to pay the higher price of other
> Tabet PCs, yet want the capability of a Tablet.

the feature list looks pretty good. The AMD-64 processor
is a good processor, but I don't know if the mobile
version is as good as a Dothan centrino - especially
when speaking about battery life time.

Are the 3 hours mentioned in the named article
the real batterly life or the one from the marketing
department? :-)

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Actually, the marketing material states a longer battery life than 3 hours. However, in talking to the company, they were clear that battery life depends on the type of activity while using the Tablet PC. The representative volunteered 3 hours while I was on the phone with him.

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Hi,
When I contacted sales, they told me 4 hours. So it seems like there's some
discrepancy between the battery life they cite.


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"Thomas Wenzl [MVP]" <twenzl@web.de> wrote in message
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> terri wrote:
> > It's a good entry point Tablet PC. It will probably be fairly
> > popular with students who don't want to pay the higher price of other
> > Tabet PCs, yet want the capability of a Tablet.
>
> the feature list looks pretty good. The AMD-64 processor
> is a good processor, but I don't know if the mobile
> version is as good as a Dothan centrino - especially
> when speaking about battery life time.
>
> Are the 3 hours mentioned in the named article
> the real batterly life or the one from the marketing
> department? :-)
>
> Regards
> --
> Thomas Wenzl [MVP for Live Communications Server]
>
> Share what you know, learn what you don't!
> (Deja/Google)

It is nice to be able to talk with someone live regarding "how" the battery
claim was established. If there is a whole lot of hardware (wireless,
infrared, USB devices, etc.) being powered while on the battery, there is no
way such extended hours can happen.
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"Chris De Herrera" <chris@cewindows.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> When I contacted sales, they told me 4 hours. So it seems like there's
> some
> discrepancy between the battery life they cite.
>
>
> --
> Chris De Herrera

LPH wrote:
>> Are the 3 hours mentioned in the named article
>> the real batterly life or the one from the marketing
>> department? :-)
>
> Actually, the marketing material states a longer battery life than 3
> hours. However, in talking to the company, they were clear that
> battery life depends on the type of activity while using the Tablet
> PC.

yep, indeed. The battery life for for note-taking, etc. would
be interested. I'm sure we all know that using wireless
technologies or USB powered devices decrease the
battery life time.

> The representative volunteered 3 hours while I was on the phone
> with him.

Seems that 3 hours are quite realistic. 3 hours would be ok
for that machine. There are some centrino machines that don't
achieve a longer battery life, too.

I guess, you could add a second battery, if you require a much
longer battery life.

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I get around 3.5 on my Acer (301) with wireless and disk activitiy. My
husband has a regular laptop with an AMD chip similar to the one in the
Avertec and he gets about the same amount of time with wireless enabled on
it. So I would expect the 3 hours to be pretty accurate.

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Cheryl Wise wrote:
> I get around 3.5 on my Acer (301) with wireless and disk activitiy.

sometimes I get about 4 hours...

> My husband has a regular laptop with an AMD chip similar to the one in
> the Avertec and he gets about the same amount of time with wireless
> enabled on it. So I would expect the 3 hours to be pretty accurate.

sounds good. Thanks for the information.

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