Packard Bell EasyNote GN Skype Edition

Notebook specifications

Notebook: Packard Bell EasyNote GN Skype Edition
Processor: Intel Core Duo T2050 (1600 MHz)
Graphics adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (128 MB)
Display: 15.4 inch 16:10 (1280x800 pixels)
Weight: 2.4 kg
Average score: 80% - good
Average of 2 scores (from 3 reviews)

Reviews in English

Packard Bell’s EasyNote Skype Edition has a special Skype button. It’s cutting edge technology
Source: PC Plus
Could this seemingly unexciting machine offer a glimpse at the future of laptop computing? Or is this just another piece of cynical marketing intended to separate less experienced users from their hard-earned cash? Having thoroughly tested the machine, we’d have to lean to the side of the latter, although as ever there are exceptions to that rule.
Date: 05/21/2007
Rating: performance: 60% display: 80%

80%Not the most powerful laptop in this group, but provides excellent value for money
Source: vnunet.com
Packard Bell’s Easynote is based on a 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo processor, which can’t match the 1.8GHz and 2GHz processors used by some of its rivals. Even so, the Easynote’s performance is strong enough to cope with office software, digital photography and video editing.
Date: 02/06/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 60% features: 80% ergonomy: 60%

Reviews in German

80%The voice-over-IP-notebook
Source: Notebook/Organizer/Handy 10/06
Date: 12/01/2006
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 90% performance: 80%

Comment

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is an onboard integrated video chip and can be called a faster clocked GMA 900 (on Mobile Intel 945GM Express chipset, which is available only starting with Core Duo/Solo). 2006 it is the most often used graphics solution and is classified in the weakest third of mobile graphics solutions. So it can only be used for elder games. For office applications and surfing it is without any doubt sufficient.
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

Intel Core Duo: Intel Core Duo (successor of Pentium M), is a double core processor with a very good relation of performance to current consumption. The 2 MB L2 Cache are used common. The maximum current consumption of 31 Watts is only 4 W more then with Pentium M. Due to the low energy need is Core Duo also suited for subnotebooks. Further now it supports SSE3 orders. The performance can nearly be doubled for applications, which were designed for multiprocessors (compared with Pentium M).

T2050: Core Duo T2050 is a weak variant of this processor, which consumes low current.
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

15.4": 15 inch display-variants are the standard and are used for more than the half of all notebooks.  15.4 inch display with 16:10 are the standard for notebook displays.
The reason why so many people like displays with medium size is, that this size is not exhausting for the eyes, does not need too much current and the laptops can be kept quite compact.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

2.4 kg: This notebook is lighter than the average of all notebooks. It is too heavy for sub-notebooks. 14 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.

Packard Bell: Packard Bell is an international notebook manufacturer, but with quite few market shares and few reviews. The evaluations of Packard Bell-notebooks are moderate or mediocre.
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