ECS G556e

ECS i-Buddie A928

least the manufacturer has the good grace not to try to pass this monstrosity off as a laptop. Yes, there are 4 USB ports... but there are No ports for a printer, common peripherals like a Palm cradle, or even an external mouse. This means newer peripherals, or clunky adapters. Yes, it has a powerful external battery... but that's because there is NO, I repeat NO internal battery. I had this computer for about six months when the hard drive failed. The damage was apparently caused by the normal bumping of being carried in a laptop bag, brought on a plane as carry-on and so forth. The unit was never dropped, and was handled more carefully than I've ...

ECS i-Buddie A928

for some good reasons I wanted to have windows 2000 installed. The install went fine until I wanted to install the drivers from the original driver CD. It was a No go situation until I had the idea to make a copy of the supplied CD. Afterwards everything went just fine. The reason why I could only install from a self-made copy and not from the ORIGINAL CD is beyond me. Under windows 2k this laptop was rock stable I cant remember a single crash. I also had Suse linux 9.0 personal edition on it with everything working just fine. The first problem appeared 3 (three!) months after purchase: the power supply connector just melted and one of the three pins remained in the ...