Entered CNET Catalog: 07/21/2007
SKU: XT5000T
Manufacturer: Everex Systems Inc.
Manufacturer description
Do it all with an Everex StepNote . With the genuine Windows Vista Home Premium operating system, AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-50 processor and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 graphics with 256MB of dedicated video memory, the new XT5000T becomes the biggest, fastest StepNote ever built. Watch and create your own CDs and DVDs on a massive 17" DiamondBrite widescreen display, play all the latest 3D games, send email, instant message friends and family or surf the Internet with either the built-in 56k modem, broadband-ready 10/100/1000 Ethernet port or wireless 802.11b/g. Pre-installed with the genuine Windows Vista Home Premium operating system, the XT5000T also makes it easier and more enjoyable to do just about anything on your PC. See the difference with a spectacular new look, instant search, built-in Windows Media Center, and automated PC security features. Create beautiful family albums and home videos, listen to your favorite music, connect with the people you care about or enjoy a new world of games on your PC or online.User opinions
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User Rating: 
9/10
Pretty good machine
Pros: Great performance for a gamer on the go, easily upgradable
Cons: Runs a little hot, it has Vista
User Rating: 9/10
Well Worth it
Pros: Very nice Display, awesome preformance, all around nice computer
Cons: Battery Life is lacking and alittle heat output alittle on the warm side.
User Rating: 
10/10
GREAT LAPTOP
Pros: I have had this laptop for 3 months and love it. bright 17in screen, fast processing speed, Play all kinds of high end games. watch DVDs from across the room.
Cons: keyboard is only flaw other than some vibration from sub woofer
User Rating: 9/10
I've had this laptop for 8 months and am well satisfied.
Pros: It has a great screen and wirth the N-vidia graphics, it's like beiung in the picture. The graphics are so good, you can see the separate blades of grass in some of the video games I have loaded.
Cons: I haven't found any bad things about it except it runs a little on the hot side for a laptop and the battery life is short but I moslty use it where I camn plug in the ac adapter.
It came with 100Gbt. HDD and I bought an extra 120 Gbt. HDD. This causes a longer boot up time but for 220Gbt. of mermory, who's griping?
don't expect much help from the Everex Tech support folks. They don't seem to be very switched on about their products. They don't recommend installing a second hard drive even though they use the second hard drive slot as a selling point. Mine is working great and I've even swapped them around between slots to test the performance and they work just as well in either slot. If I have tech questions, I usually find the answers on the Net in Forums.
I'm so satisfied with my XT5000T that I'm buying my wife an Everex for Christmas.
User Rating: 10/10
One of the best "bang for your buck" notebooks around
Pros: Clean "no nonsense" styling, gorgeous screen, decent set of speakers, great video card, fast.
Cons: Keyboard layout is a bit quirky.
What makes this "enthusiast-class"? Well it's got fully accessible hard drive bays (two of them and as of late, now has RAID support
), one panel access to both the processor and memory slots, and comes with a "game worthy" mobile 7600 GT video card (framerate isn't an issue with Battlefield 2 and Halflife 2 @ high settings @ 1024x768 resolution).Adding icing to the cake is a gorgeous 17" WXGA+ widescreen display with "diamond brite" technology (read: glossy finish that improves contrast), a decent pair of speakers for gaming or playing media (which on a notebook is virtually unheard of, no pun intended), and a very serviceable AMD Turion X2 dual core TL-50.
With all of this, the price would have still been justified with 512mb of ram and Vista Home basic, but Everex went the extra mile and threw in 1 GB of ram and Vista Home premium. The design of the notebook is very clean and straightforward; no hokey looking curves, textures, or color schemes going on here.
The only complaint I have is the keyboard, it has the \ key in about 3 places you don't expect it. It takes a little getting used to.
I purchased this with an extra 100GB drive and 2GB of memory and still came in at under $1K; 3 months later, I'm still a very happy camper!
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