Comments on: RIP Everex. Please Stay Dead

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:34:21 +0000

Looking up a problem for a friend’s laptop, I discovered there was a class action suit against HP for his Pavillion. That made me think maybe there’s a lawsuit against my crappy Everex. Then I found this blog. Glad to see they are out of business. However, this article says they definitely were acquired by some company called NewMarket (so now we know to stay away form NewMarket):

http://www.itworld.com/business/53379/everex-acquired-newmarket-technology

Anyways, my Everex has always randomly locked up. At first, it was every once in a while. Now the thing won’t run more than 15 minutes without freezing. I’m glad I bought it as a secondary computer because if I had to depend on it, I’d be screwed.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:58:41 +0000

I suspect they were a victim of the GPU chip issues everyone is talking about. My XT5000T just recently became a vicitm. I used it mostly for work and my desktop for gaming. It sure beat the heck out of my Dell laptop that I paid $200 more just a couple year prior that lasted only slightly longer. Like so many others out there, I liked my XT5000T and will try to fix it myself soon. At the time, the price was great for the features you got, and sure beat the heck out of anything Dell was offering. Customer service seemed fine to me; several people I talked to got their laptops repaired free long after the warranty was up.

You do have a valid point though: with the prices of today’s note/netbooks, who the heck needs Everex now? (except me…I’d like to get mine fixed and get a couple more years use out of it *sigh*).

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:09:14 +0000

Hey now, down boy….where is the love? I have the Stepnote NC1510 and it quite happily plays the roles of my router/firewall, smb server, print server, torrent downloader and voip client. Just because it doesn’t run Vista (as ridiculous as it was to ship it with) doesn’t mean it deserves this kind of flaming. It runs ultra quiet, ultra cool, barely a blip on the ole hydro bill and for $400, it didn’t hurt the wallet either…

I actually found this article because I was looking to buy ANOTHER StepNote as a back-up server, or to actually use it as a laptop (my server laptop is too deeply embedded and relied upon now), damn, I’ll actually miss them.

By: G

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:58:42 +0000

Cloudbook everex is a wonderful machine! The problem was the gOS which was rushed and poorly designed and via’s reluctance to provide open source support. Running Ubuntu 10.4 alpha 2 on mine at the mo and it runs great!!!

By: glen milleson

glen milleson — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:15:59 +0000

i bought the everex xt5000t and 1 week out of warranty the mother board and video card burned up everex to me to send it to them but ti might not be covered .after argueing they agree to fix it .and they did 6 months later.after getting it back we had it 3 months and its messed up again and now their out of bussness .what do i do we paid a lot of money for this boat anchor

By: Meleniumshane90

Meleniumshane90 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:42:00 +0000

My laptop was repaired outside of warranty, but only after 2 months.

I spoke with my lawyer, spoke about it on a forum they monitored, http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1174232, and in less than a day, received an email that it was repaired & would be shipped out.

The laptop works fine now, and the BIOS have been upgraded – and then I “downgraded” them from E to D).

Frankly, LaptopMag’s review was very poor and lacked any real substance. The review contains no information on the well-performing speakers, subwoofer, and actually says the 1400 x 900 17″ screen is “low for this class” – a blatant lie considering they still sell 1440 x 900 17″ laptops, and the performance laptops in 2006-2008 were still 1440×900. 3DMark 03? seriously?

They made poor laptops, they made poor desktops. But the specs on the XT5000T were high at their time, and are still decent for gaming now. I get flawless gameplay in BioShock & a all the HL2 games.

By: Palo

Palo — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:42:51 +0000

I had this POS Everex XT5000T and video card died just out of warranty, Everex customer service responded to my email “we need to evaluate it and you will have to pay for repair”, I spent countless hours trying to find how to fix it on the budget and I have discovered sooo many users with exact same problem, the cause was the heatsink does not adhere to video chip (nVidia) and the overheating damaged connection of chip to motherboard. I was about to file a lawsuit after I collected enough informations to prove that it was a Everex fault – manufacturing defective laptop with weak cooling directly causing damage to vidochip rendering laptop unusable by the end of warranty or shortly thereafter but the bastards closed it down and I did not know who to sue after that. But I want to point out very interesting fact that is exact same laptop down to a screw was sold with exact same problems in Europe, under Fujitsu brand. model was Fujitsu Amilo XA 1526. Wonder how Everex and Fujitsu made same laptops ? my guess is the FIC (owner of Everex) made the laptop and then sell it like a no name to manufacturers to put their brand on it like Fujitsu did.

By: Juan

Juan — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:43:29 +0000

I wonder if the publisher of the letter (Avram) actually owned a laptop made by Everex or was
he assigned to run quick tests and “nit pick” at it. I own not 1 but 2 Everex XT500t for over
a couple of years and have NOT had any problems with it.I added more Ram and a 500Gig
secondary drive (yes it can take 2 hard drives) loaded with Win XP Pro.I can boot to either drive
and as a Certified Computer Tech, it has outlasted the so called other name brands.I have repaired
tons of laptops and 90% of them are the other name brands.I have been pleased with Everex and
have had nothing but good results from them.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:14:37 +0000

I had a vastly different experience than you did. I bought my Everex Stepnote in May of 2007 from Best Buy, upgraded the RAM, and haven’t had any major issues with it. The CD burner is starting to act up a little now, but if that’s the worst thing that happens in almost two and a half years of owning a laptop, I’ll sign up for that every time!

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:38:05 +0000

Hmmm…I own an everex stepnote. First, I’m a little perturbed that I found out Everex closed this way. They should have contacted their customers that logged into their website. Second, I’m not really surprised. Cheap computers, yes but if I had to do it over again, I’d have gotten anything other than Everex. Because Everex put Vista on a computer meant for XP and it still ticks me off. I don’t like Vista because they did that, and I’m still looking for a cheap XP program to put on here. Vista isn’t exactly great by itself, but it’s just adding insult to injury.

Everex can come back to life, and they probably will. If they do, a word of advice – stop cutting corners to save a few bucks, that’s why you’re out of business!!