Laptops > Packard Bell Laptops

Laptop that is hardly portable!!

Advantages: Great size screen, excellent video quality
Disadvantages: Very Short Battery life!

...i just have to have it on charge all of the time. I looked into buying a replacement battery but the only place that sells them is the official Packard Bell Website, and they cost £80, and being a student I wasnt prepared to spend that much money on it. ...

toop 13.10.2008 · Read Full Review
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Review of Packard Bell Easy Note

pack of rubbish

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: not enough memory etc

So I bought this laptop about two years ago its works great sometimes but sometimes not so great. Every now and then it just dies for no reason, and goes blue screened has done since I can remeber. It has no microphone unlike other laptops. The battery life lasts about 30 minutes if your lucky. It runs quite slow and doesnt have lot of RAM. I paid around 600 hundred for this laptop with intrest on top of that, so as you can imagine rather expensive. ...
...which about 15-20gb is taken up by the running system. Its only has around 864mb of ram meaning that Vista is slow at running. What I have never understood about this laptop is one minute I can have 864mb but then the next I can have 1gb. This laptop has got long durability though, I've had it about 2 years and its not let me down yet *touches wood* its been dropped, stood on and sat on and it still works like a treat. It's just ashame that it doesnt ...

hypermusician 19.05.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of Packard Bell Easy Note MZ36-T-019

"Packaged Hell" seems less awful than before

Advantages: Cheap, huge screen, good features, 2GB RAM, 1.9GHz
Disadvantages: Dire battery life

...SJ51 not the SW51. Packard Bell no longer sell the SW51. The basic machines are identical, but the SW had AMD Turion, 1GB RAM and 1.6GHz clock speed, and the SJ has the Athlon x 2, 2GB RM and 1.9Ghz, . Everything else is the same; if Ciao ever set up the right category out I'll move this review! MY PURCHASE I bought this Easy Note laptop from PC World a few weeks ago and paid £419. It is therefore pretty much an entry level machine, but I think ...
...this a great buy. Packard Bell have been making laptops for years - they have been in business since 1991 and are a familiar name, though not one really associated with quality, so I did have some initial concerns when the salesman suggested it. The name dates back to 1926, when they made radios and televisons for America, and was bought in the 1980s and attached to this new PC company. The computers they made in the early nineties were, frankly, ...

sadoldbag 02.05.2008 · Read Full Review
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Review of Packard Bell Easynote SW51-B-012

Nightmare Machine!

Advantages: Nice big screen
Disadvantages: badly designed, and made

I bought this laptop around 8 months ago as it was on offer in the store. I have had my fair share of laptops in the past, and know a little bit about computers but do not pretend to be an expert, however throughout my years as a student, and with a busy career in which I use my laptop daily; I have come to recognize key features which are important in a portable computer for regular use. This model has none of them and I am sad to say that this ...
...have owned. For the first month or so, it worked like a dream, the large screen is a wonderful advantage for watching movies, editing photographs or playing games, but the casing seems to collect dust easily for some reason?! - Even though I clean it regularly. I never move the laptop at all, it stays on the computer desk, yet after a few months the whole of the casing began to feel rather ropey and loose; sure enough the key board started malfunctioning ...

techie_fairy 19.01.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of Packard Bell EasyNote R0205

Packard Bell EasyNote GN45-032 Skype edition

Advantages: Great little laptop with lots of useful features
Disadvantages: The disk drive stopped working, but still in warenty

...featured, as it is the packard bell easynote GN45-032, although the only real difference is that my laptop has a 160GB memory compared to the GN45-P-050 which has 80GB, mine did not come with vista loaded, but have since loaded it and my laptop is a skype edition which basically means that it has a button next to the camera which takes you straight to skype, which is a programme which allows the user to make free video internet phone calls to anyone ...
...centre Processor:Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5200 Cache memory:1MB Chipset:Intel 945GM Installed Memory:1024MB DDR2 Memory on Hard Drive:160GB Screen Resolution: 1280x800 Screen size:14'' TFT Disk Drive: DVD+/- R9 USB ports: 3 x 2.0 Firewall:Yes VGA: Yes and DVI Audio in:Yes Microphone in:Yes Headphone out:Yes Ethernet:10/1000 LAN WiFi:802.11 ...

flo90 04.04.2008 · Read Full Review
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Review of Packard Bell Easynote GN45-P-050