Walmart Balance Model A535

I bought this laptop from a friend who needed cash badly. I have to say that I was very impressed with it. Very fast in my opinion. It is lightweight as well. I took it with me on my first deployment overseas and it did just fine, even with all the sandstorms. It survived. That was almost four years ago and only recently did it start acting up.

All in all I really enjoy this computer and would recommend it to anyone. Do not leave it plugged in if you are not using it though. It tends to get hot.

I got my a535 a few years ago second hand, I didnt get the restore disc with it but got by with just installing a fresh copy of home xp.

Laptop is ok looking, gets hot too quick in my experience, my fan on the processor seems to be making a high pitch sqeeling sound.

Just thought I'd like to point out that my laptop is a a535 but was from tiny, maker of this laptop is ecs.

They will tell you the maximum memory upgrade is 512mb, so I decided to put a 1 gig upgrade and it works great.

Only downfall for this laptop is that the processor isn't upgradable.

A little laptop which is a good little runner is the advent 7086 which on ecs site is the 321 series, this can take 1 gig mem upgrade and can also have the 1.4 ghz processor upgraded to a 2ghz. Its very quite.

Just thought I'd share it with you all.

1 last thing if anyone does have or gets an advent 7086 ad dosn't get or hasnt got the restore disk, then i have and could do ya a copy.

Battery life is indeed poor... I got around 45 minutes to an hour when new that was with the longer life battery.

I thought about getting another battery as I now get around 5 minutes battery life. Did a google search and found some batteries for around $140 but don't know if this is worth it considering the low cost of laptops now. Apart from this I do recommend Walmart Balance laptops.

I have no problems with mine other than the battery life! I got it second hand from my Son when we bought him a new one. He said he could not depend on it for the short battery life!

The battery life of the battery was always 20 minutes. It's also hard to find a supplier for the battery. Haven't found one!

Don't have anything derogatory to say about this laptop!

Bought more memory for the unit after purchasing.

Walmart seems to have sold out of the Balance Model A535 laptop, and there is no indication that they will ever sell them again.