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Averatec 3200
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4 52896 09-22-2005
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100% of reviewers $849.50 9.3
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The Averatec 3200 series Thin and Light delivers all the value you expect without compromising the features you want. Breaking boundaries with total mobility and a surprisingly affordable price. Just 1 inch thin and 4.5 lbs.light keeps it ultra portable.
Keywords: Notebook AMD XP+M 2200
/sbin/lspci output: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400] Chipset Host Bridge
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
0000:00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 03)
0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6912 Cardbus Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Intel 537 [AC97 Modem] (rev 80)
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01)


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Old 01-04-2005, 06:43 PM   #1
merana
 
Registered: May 2002
Distribution: Debian Red-Hat Ubuntuu Solaris CentOS
Posts: 78

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $899.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.8.1-3-386
Distribution: Ubuntu



Only has a Broadcom 54G Wireless Chipset. Thus necessitates use of NDISWRAPPER to drive. Several good links googleable for installation.

All other hardware recognizes fine.

Tested with Debian-Woody/Sarge/Sid, Knoppix, Morphix, Ubuntu with great success.

Light and thin! Fantastic "LAPTOP". Heats up like crazy though so you'll want some thermal insulation for extended use.

Screen is bright and clear albeit limiting at just 1024x768.

Power Consumption is average. Fan can be noisy at times too. Avg battery life with active use is around 3hrs.

Works with several 3rd party power adapters without problem (Targus, Belkin)

Keyboard is fine. Inverted T cursors and Fn'd Home/End/PgUp/PgDn can be a bit of a pain but workable.

Port placement is atrocious. USB ports too close an inconveniently placed for close quarters peripheral use. 3 USB ports on Front RHS.

All in all still quite recommendable and very functional. Especially for prices recently seen...
 
Old 06-22-2005, 11:47 AM   #2
Hotfeet
 
Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: Debian Sid
Posts: 39

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $899.00 | Rating: 8

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.11-1-k7
Distribution: Debian Sarge


Wifi works fine with the open source rt2x00 drivers.

The only problem is there is no driver for the video card with 3d acceleration without compiling DRI support.
 
Old 08-29-2005, 12:38 PM   #3
ro_nicu
 
Registered: Oct 2004
Distribution: Slackware, Mandrake
Posts: 27

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $900.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.12.5
Distribution: Debian, Slackware, Vector, Mandrake, Fedora


everithing works fine as long as you know your way around, otherwise there are some problems you'l have to dig a litle in order to solve.
some pain to get the grafic acceleration working.

otherwise, A PAIN IN THE BUT BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF RELIABILITY - 9 MONTHS - 3 RMAs, the last one is takink more then 10 bussiness days, still no unswer from them. ( the dvd is dead)

IF YOU FEEL LUCKY BUY THIS ONE
 
Old 09-22-2005, 01:46 PM   #4
kel_en
 
Registered: Jun 2005
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 63

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $699.99 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.8-25mdk
Distribution: Mandriva


The price is for a refurbished AV3250H1. This laptop contains the Ralink wireless for which the Linux RT2500 driver works well and the SmartLink modem which also has a Linux driver.

I found problems with Mandriva LE2005 (10.2). Kernel 2.6.11-6mdk would crash because of IRQ11 problems. I was unable to solve this issue.

Changing to Mandriva 10.1 resulted in total compatibility with both 2.6.8-12mdk and 2.6.8-25mdk.

Unichrome DRI works but must be compiled for 2.6.8. Not sure if it would have worked out of the box with 2.6.11 as it did on my desktop machine running Mandriva 10.2.

I like the laptop and recommend it.
 




  



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