Averatec and Toshiba are the same. Toshiba, in fact, owns Averatec -- its all garbage. I wouldn't touch another Toshiba laptop if they gave it to me... yes, they are that bad. Mine died in exactly 366 days. Never again...
Reference:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=84323
Dell, IBM or Apple for me.