ECS i-Buddie A530

ECS i-Buddie A928

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 handled other laptops, but this one isn't intended to be toted around in the real world. Read: fragile - handle with care, if you must touch it at all. To make matters worse, when I turned it in under warranty (through the dealer, since the company refused to even speak to me directly), I got it back about six weeks later, with a 20GB hard drive in place of the 30 that had been in before. ...

ECS i-Buddie A928

Elitegroup ESC desknote iBuddie A 929 user review I bought this Laptop at the beginning of 2002 (august 2004 now) with an 1800 Atlon XP, 256MB Ram (upgraded afterwards with an 512MB Infineon module) a 30gb Fujitsu Hdd and a DVD CDRW combo for about 900 Euros. It came with windows XP Professional edition but 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 ...