Everex gBook VA1500V

Linix was nice but different, I bought another HD and loaded Win XP Pro 32bit. Win XP went in just great, no install problems. VIA website had the drivers I needed, chipset, video and audio. Artheros AR5005G had the wireless driver, no problems....

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Great Price, solid product

GOS- PCLinuxOS would be better- if you what to run xp up the menory to 1 Gig and down load stepnote 1510 drivers

Nice screen, hardware seems to run well, good price. Comes with ever thing you need to get start for productive computing

Support is the lowest I've ever seen in a computer product,EVER!!!!! gOS has little to no support, Driver Support doesn't exist. Getting hardware information is next to impossible. So even if you want to install another operating system, be prepared...

Price can't be beat, for a 15.4" laptop! gOS is a fine Ubuntu spin-off; I just didn't care for it so I installed XP, partitioned a storage partition and installed Ubuntu 8.04 beta in dual boot with XP

I expected to receive a software disc, as shown in the picture gallery, for this laptop...didn't come with it

For those that complain about this being a generic CPU, you should be thankful, not complaining. VIA makes excellent, low power consumption CPUs. I wouldnt ever buy a lappy like this that didnt have a VIA. Actually I have wanted one for years as these...

FreeBSD (with X), and PC-BSD dont work with it ; I bought this laptop with the intent of putting PC-BSD on it. PC-BSD crashed in the install 14 times in a row. Gave up and tried FreeBSD 7.0. It installed just fine, but X gave me fits ; I installed the...

Cheap, big screen

Go to everex.com support and try to find this system anywhere. It's not supported online with drivers, manuals, anything. It doesn't come with a system restore CD, so if you reformat to install Windows, there's no way to get it back to factory setup....

Very affordable ; very functional ; Ubuntu based distribution can easily be restored back to base Ubuntu (I kept the custom gOS theme, since it is quite attractive)

requires a little bit of setup still

Has a pretty big display for the price. Via C7-M processor out performs my Gateway notebook with a 2.4 GHz P4. Once this computer is running Windows XP its extremely reliable

Low battery life (approximately 90 minutes). Included GOS operating system is complete garbage. Mono sound

Ligth, cheap, nice hardware, big screen. works great once you install xp. reason for 4 eggs is that this computer came with linux and it sucks with pre install. if it came with xp i would give it 5 eggs

the linux distro sucks, makes the computer slow and unbarable. The reason for this is that i tried watching some movies, they all skipped. When you first boot the screen flickers like crazy. but reboot fixes that

Decent weight - not too heavy that you mind porting it around. I'm an open source advocate so I love that it comes bundled with Linux and OSS software. Battery life is decent but not spectacular. The screen size and picture quality though are really...

This is more of a personal preference but ... I don't particulary like the gOS version of Linux that comes pre-installed. I don't like having a MacOS-like "dock" on the screen. Also, if you restart xorg for some reason the display refresh goes funny...