cyrnel

I run into these now and then but haven't bought their product for years. They had their main US assembly/support depot near us in San Clara CA. The headaches they caused were large both in quality of product and solving problems. That was ~8yrs ago. Times change and I try not to hold grudges.

Current day: A niece is looking at one of their laptops for her Christmas present. (several of us chipping in.) Her needs fell prey to creep and she's now stuck on a Turion MT-34 model. Nice specs for the money but I haven't touched it. I can help with narrowing down options. What I'm looking for is experience the last couple years with their build quality and support.

For the curious it's a 5002WLMI. Turion MT-34 (~2GHz Pentium M-ish), 15" WXGA, 100GB, 512MB, DVD+/-RW, 802.11g, 6lbs. I'd be looking for something lighter but this will be mostly a desktop replacement. She's not much of a gamer so the integrated graphics aren't a problem. We'll be bumping the RAM to 1GB whatever the model.

Thanks for any perspective.

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