Your opinion on Clevo and Asus laptops

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I am thinking of getting either the Clevo 432 or the Asus A25H laptop but am
not sure about their reliability. Does anyone have any experience/opinion
with these two brands?

Cheers,
Tom

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Tom wrote:
> I am thinking of getting either the Clevo 432 or the Asus A25H laptop but am
> not sure about their reliability. Does anyone have any experience/opinion
> with these two brands?
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
>

With regards to the Clevo "brand," you might want to check the
reliability records of Sager, ProStar and Alienware, as these are also
made by Clevo.

But if reliability is of significant concern to you, get a Thinkpad.

~EM

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"EM" <1@1.1> wrote in message
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> Tom wrote:
> > I am thinking of getting either the Clevo 432 or the Asus A25H laptop
but am
> > not sure about their reliability. Does anyone have any
experience/opinion
> > with these two brands?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tom
> >
> >
>
> With regards to the Clevo "brand," you might want to check the
> reliability records of Sager, ProStar and Alienware, as these are also
> made by Clevo.
>
> But if reliability is of significant concern to you, get a Thinkpad.
>


Even better, get a Panasonic Toughbook.



dk

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"Scott" <dkf747@yawho.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 22:32:11 GMT, "Dan Koren" <dankoren@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >"EM" <1@1.1> wrote in message
> >news:%nUuc.51577$Np3.2237768@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
> >> Tom wrote:
> >> > I am thinking of getting either the Clevo 432 or the Asus A25H laptop
> >but am
> >> > not sure about their reliability. Does anyone have any
> >experience/opinion
> >> > with these two brands?
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > Tom
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> With regards to the Clevo "brand," you might want to check the
> >> reliability records of Sager, ProStar and Alienware, as these are also
> >> made by Clevo.
> >>
> >> But if reliability is of significant concern to you, get a Thinkpad.
> >>
> >
> >
> >Even better, get a Panasonic Toughbook.
> >
> >
> >
> >dk
> >
>
> or Dell. Believe it or not, my Dell i8200 has been more reliable than
> my Clevo er, I mean Sager 5670. The Sager is great but I've had to
> send it in twice in 1 year. I have not had a single problem with the
> Dell in 2 years.
>
Glad to hear it. I just bought one for my grandson. Been playing around on
it for a week, Looks like a winner.

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Can you back up that claim? All I've heard are positive things about Dell
laptops, and I own one, my granddaughter owns one, my daughter owns one, my
grandson just received one from me, and several of my neighbors own one.
None of us have encountered a single Dell-related problem.

I also have a Gateway. It has been problem free as well.

>
> Yes, but you are a sample set of one.
>
> Many people have had many problems
> with Dull notebooks.
>
>
>
> dk
>
>

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On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 00:57:22 GMT, "Dan Koren" <dankoren@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>"Scott" <dkf747@yawho.com> wrote in message
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>>
>> or Dell. Believe it or not, my Dell i8200 has been more reliable than
>> my Clevo er, I mean Sager 5670. The Sager is great but I've had to
>> send it in twice in 1 year. I have not had a single problem with the
>> Dell in 2 years.
>>
>
>Yes, but you are a sample set of one.
>
>Many people have had many problems
>with Dull notebooks.
>
>
>
>dk

\
How is it any different from your sample set for the Panasonic? I
wasn't asked to get together data showing how satisfied Dell owners
were. I provided my experience. Of course I've heard lots of stories
but I don't believe half of them. I've heard stories about the
toughluckbook myself and don't really believe all of them.
OTOH, I know people, and have heard lots of good reports, about the
i8200. Based on my experience with one, I believe most of them.

BTW, I love my Sager but it is a fact that I needed to send it in
twice to be fixed. Despite this, I'll probably buy a Sager next time
rather than a Dell. Sager generally offers more for the money.

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Did you ever learn anything re asus? My wife is interested in one of their
ultra-light notebooks because it's white (and will be kept in the white
kitchen).

No point in everyone getting their panties in a twist over choosing a laptop
by its appearance, I've already been through that, I'd just like to know
about Asus or anyone else who makes UL notebooks.

thanks.

Chip


"Tom" <tclim36@zip.com.au> wrote in message
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> I am thinking of getting either the Clevo 432 or the Asus A25H laptop but
am
> not sure about their reliability. Does anyone have any experience/opinion
> with these two brands?
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
>

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Dan Koren wrote:
> FWIW I bought a 13" Asus TravelNote (or something like that)
> in December 2000 (just after it came out) for one of my kids
> who studies overseas. The hardware is OK, however we kept
> running into highly annoying problems with some software
> Asus had bundled with the unit, and support was worse
> than non-existent.
>
> This is admittedly a sample of one, and does not directly
> answer questions about reliability. However, my personal
> decision was to never buy again a product from a company
> that does not provide adequate support (and this not only
> for computers).
>
> Of course YMMV.
>
>
> dk
>
>
> "Chip Orange" <acorange@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>> Did you ever learn anything re asus? My wife is interested in one
>> of their ultra-light notebooks because it's white (and will be kept
>> in the white kitchen).
>>
>> No point in everyone getting their panties in a twist over choosing
>> a laptop by its appearance, I've already been through that, I'd just
>> like to know about Asus or anyone else who makes UL notebooks.
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>> Chip
>>
>>
>> "Tom" <tclim36@zip.com.au> wrote in message
>> news:seQuc.4271$%r.56050@nasal.pacific.net.au...
>>> I am thinking of getting either the Clevo 432 or the Asus A25H
>>> laptop but am not sure about their reliability. Does anyone have
>>> any experience/opinion with these two brands?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Tom

My wife purchase, over my objections, an Averatec 3550H, moderately
light (3 lb, 1.4kg) with AMD 1800+ Mobile, 12 in screen, 40MB HD, USB2.
The laptop was $800 at Sam's Club. I think she must have 4000 hrs on
it. The keyboard is good but very small and awkward for large hands.
She loves it. She does Powerpoint with embedded avi which I was betting
would never work for presentation via projector. This laptop must have
100,000 air miles on it also.

Asus is a well-known ODM (original design manufacturer) of laptops and
desktop mainboards. The ODMs sell their designs to the name brands,
although Clevo is not a real big name, IMO. The design and
manufacturing process of laptops has matured to the point that hardware
failure is rather rare anymore, being limited mostly to RAM and HD.
Personally, the software supplied with most laptops is usually
crippleware to begin with and can be replaced at moderate or low cost.
It is never a reason IMO to disqualify the hardware.

addendum: hardware failures are cropping up in Toshiba and Dell
notebooks with, again, they never learn, desktop 3Ghz P4s, with
overheating to failure. So, the manufacturing process should be
described as "mostly mature". How Tosh and Dell can ethically market
these furnaces in a notebook package is, well, mysterious.

Q