Dialogue Flybook VM

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Reviews for the Dialogue Flybook VM

70% Dialogue Flybook VM laptop Review
Source: Pocket Lint
The unique design of the Flybook VM certainly make sit stand out from the competition and if getting the right screen position is high on your list of needs, it’s a great choice. However, once you get over this feature, it’s a standard ultraportable notebook that sadly lacks a punch – but at least it has a decent battery life. The uplifting screen makes it a unique design and while it got a basic spec, the battery life more than makes up for it.
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7 von 10, Preis/Leistung schlecht, Leistung mangelhaft, Mobilität gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 04/30/2007
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 40% performance: 50% mobility: 80%

50% Flybook VM
Source: Laptop Mag
This ultraportable import features a unique height-adjustable screen, but does it have enough endurance for road warriors?
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2.5 von 5, Preis/Leistung teuer, Leistung schlecht, Display gut, Mobilität mäßig
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 02/19/2007
Rating: Total score: 50% price: 40% performance: 40% display: 80% mobility: 60%

67% Flybook VM
Source: PC Pro
Innovative design and well constructed, but the poor performance and high price let it down. Still, there's enough about this Flybook to love. The adjustable screen is truly brilliant, both for keeping neck strain at bay and for better screen visibility. And with keyboard and build quality equally impressive, only the poor performance (both application and battery) and high cost hold it back. It's still a great piece of design, though, and one that we hope other manufacturers will seriously consider. If the caveats of price and performance don't worry you overly, it's a great purchase and guaranteed to get you noticed.
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4 von 6, Preis/Leistung schlecht, Leistung schlecht, Display sehr gut, Verarbeitung sehr gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 02/19/2007
Rating: Total score: 67% price: 40% performance: 40% display: 90% workmanship: 90%

Foreign Reviews

80% Flybook VM
Source: Connect DE→EN
, Length Unknown, Date: 04/20/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 50% performance: 50% features: 60% display: 80% ergonomy: 80%

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on Mobile Intel 945GM chipset. It is a faster clocked version of the GMA 900 and supports no hardware T&L (Transform & Lightning) accelleration (which is required for some games).

Only older games can be played fluently with these graphics chips (if they were not too demanding). Shared memory graphic cores in this category got the advantage of less heat production and longer battery runtimes. For office, internet, image processing, and video editing tasks these graphics chips are still useable without any restrictions.

>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

Intel Core Duo: Double Core processor with a very good relation of performance to current consumption. The 2 MB L2 Cache are used together by the double. The maximum capacity of 31 watts is only 4 watts more than with the Pentium M (predecessor). Both cores are lowered automatically and independently of each other by speed steps down to 1 GHz. In addition it now supports also SSE3 instructions. At least it is just as fast as a equivalent Pentium M. With applications, which were designed for multi-processors, the performance can be nearly twice as fast as with the Pentium M (e.g. CineBench around 86% fast)

U2400:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

12.1": This is a common display format for subnotebooks. Most netbooks have a tinier display. The advantage is, that the subnotebook can be small dimensioned and can be carried easily. Further the small display needs few energy, which improves the battery runtime and in consequence the mobility. The disadvantage is that the reading of texts is a bit exhausting for the eyes, especially with high resolutions.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

1.7 kg: This sub-notebook weighs less than the average of all notebooks and represents a medium class of weight among the sub-notebooks. 11 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.

Dialogue: Dialogue Technology was founded in 1990 and headquartered in Taiwan. The company's flagship product is the Flybook—an ultraportable convertible tablet computer with integrated 3G. The Dialogue group globally now has 200 staff, and a turnover of 150M US$. Reviews about Flybooks are rare.

66.75%: This rating is bad. Most notebooks are better rated. This is not a recommendation for purchase.

>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.