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    Evesham - any experience?

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by canonyau, Jun 8, 2006.

  1. canonyau

    canonyau Notebook Consultant

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    about to buy a laptop. There's an evesham store near where I live (UK) so am considering buying their Voyager C545 plus notebook - which is basically an ASUS W3J, but cheaper.

    Anyone have any experience with EVESHAM generally? Laptops reliable,? builds good? After sales/ technical support?

    thanks
     
    canonyau, Jun 8, 2006
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    samw1se Notebook Geek

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    pin Notebook Consultant

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    I'm also thinking about this laptop. The pricing is pretty good, however how do you know its a W3J? I know that Evesham do use Asus chasis's on some of their machines though.

    Their CS is supposed to be good, however I have heard that they often bombard you with marketing material.
     
    pin, Jun 13, 2006
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  4. stamar

    stamar Notebook Prophet

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    no that laptop is a benq s73

    not an asus w3j. Benq is actually the brand acer. this particular model however is made by the chinese company called mitac.

    All things considered, this is a fine notebook. I wish it were imported to the us. However not nearly as fine as an asus. It is cheaper in quality certainly. similar in spec.

    Compare it to the zepto znote 6412 in the uk but possilby give it a little more weight in pounds compared to zepto.

    as for experience with evesham... no i have no idea. Id look for some uk specific computer ratings on that.


    remember ok, evesham makes nothing. They buy things available elsewhere in the world and put their name on it. just like dell and hp here in the us.
    So what you need to try and figure out is what is it they are buying
     
    stamar, Jun 13, 2006
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  5. iTwins

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    Correction. BenQ WAS actually the brand Acer.

    But that's not accurate either. This is correct:

    Full article: Arnnet


    Oh, one more thing:

    You really don't want to start a war because of this comment. :) Normally when we say Chinese, the first thing in our mind is China. Mitac is a Taiwanese company but they have factories in China.

    Link: Mitac
     
    iTwins, Jun 14, 2006
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  6. stamar

    stamar Notebook Prophet

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    i appreciate corrections.

    For future reference though nothing I write is 100% acurate Im just going by what I remember. I think I was close enough to accurate to help the poster understand....
     
    stamar, Jun 14, 2006
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  7. canonyau

    canonyau Notebook Consultant

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    yes, thank you guys, really appreciate the feedback :)
     
    canonyau, Jun 16, 2006
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  8. canonyau

    canonyau Notebook Consultant

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    aha, i found this online, don't know why I didn't try "evesham review" in google before:

    shows a lot of unhappy evesham owners. hmmmm....
     
    canonyau, Jun 16, 2006
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