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Packard Bell EasyNote MB89

Specifications

Packard Bell EasyNote MB89
Packard Bell EasyNote MB89
Graphics adapter
Display
15.40 inch 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixel, glossy: yes
Weight
2.8 kg ( = 98.77 oz / 6.17 pounds), Power Supply: 0 g ( = 0 oz / 0 pounds)
Price
1200 Euro

 

Pricecompare

Average Score: 66.67% - average
Average of 3 scores (from 4 reviews)
price: 80%, performance: 85%, features: 65%, display: 45% mobility: 40%, workmanship: 70%, ergonomy: 50%, emissions: 40%

Reviews for the Packard Bell EasyNote MB89

40% Review: Packard Bell Easynote 17in notebook computer
Source: vnunet.com English Archive.org version
Available at PC World shops and online, the Packard Bell Limited Edition Easynote 17in costs £700, but we'd resist buying it in favour of a desktop PC that might be a little bigger but will certainly offer better features for the price. For £700 this notebook doesn’t do much to excite. The 17in screen may seem impressive but its performance lets this notebook down.
2 von 5, Display mangelhaft, Mobilität mangelhaft
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 01/04/2008
Rating: Total score: 40% display: 50% mobility: 50%
80% Some budget laptops are hefty and rather lumpen
Source: Tech Advisor English Archive.org version
Packard Bell's Limited Edition EasyNote MB88 P-003, by comparison, looks dainty and, indeed, weighs a fairly modest 2.6kg. The Packard Bell EasyNote MB88 P-003 Limited Edition is the middle one of the three-strong Limited Edition range and has a ‘sunny' orange accent running along the groove of the case exterior and on either side of the main unit. The Packard Bell EasyNote MB88 P-003 Limited Edition, then, is a solid Vista Home Premium laptop that is certainly worthy of consideration.
(von 5): 4, Verarbeitung 4.5, Ausstattung 4, Preis/Leistung 4
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 12/21/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% features: 80% workmanship: 90%

Foreign Reviews

Bezahlbar, edel und flott
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy - 3-4/08 German
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 02/22/2008
Rating: performance: 90% emissions: 40%
80% 15-Zoller mit Gaming-Ambitionen
Source: Notebookjournal German DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 12/22/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 80% features: 50% display: 40% mobility: 30% workmanship: 50% ergonomy: 50%

Comment

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT: The NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT is the DirectX 10 capable successor of the GeForce Go 7600 GT GPU for laptops. Depending on the used graphic memory and the clock speed,  the performance is between the 7600 GT and 7900 GS video card.

Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.

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


Intel Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).

The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.


T7500:

The Core 2 Duo T7500 is a Merom based Core 2 Duo with 4MB Level 2 Cache. It is positioned in the middle class (in 2009) and performs on par with a modern P7550 or Turion II Ultra M640/M660.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.


15.40":

15-inch display variants are the standard and are used for more than half of all laptops.

The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, often allows high resolutions and thus offers rich details on the screen, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact - simply the standard compromise.

» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.


2.8 kg:

With this weight, a laptop is rather heavier than average. Devices in this range shine more with screen size and performance than with mobility.


Packard Bell: Packard Bell is a subsidiary of Taiwan-based Acer. It is a name used by two different consumer electronics companies. The first was an American radio manufacturer founded in 1926, that later became a defense contractor and manufacturer of other consumer electronics, such as television sets. Teledyne acquired the business in 1978. In 1986, investors bought the name for a newly formed personal computer manufacturer. Originally the company produced discount computers in the US, later computers were produced for the European market. NEC took it over in the late 1990s. Acer acquired it in 2008. In spite of the similarity of their names, there has never been any corporate connection between the original or later Packard Bell and Hewlett Packard, or Bell System. Packard Bell is an international notebook manufacturer. Many years, the company focussed ruggedized laptops.

PB is not present in the smartphone/tablet market and a rather small manufacturer of laptops. There are hardly any reviews since 2015.


66.67%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.


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

 

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Packard Bell EasyNote NX69-HR-127GE
GeForce GT 540M, Core i5 2410M, 14.00", 2.089 kg
Packard Bell EasyNote TS11-HR-158GE
GeForce GT 540M, Core i7 2630QM, 15.60", 2.7 kg
Packard Bell EasyNote LS11-HR-050GE
Radeon HD 6650M, Core i5 2410M, 17.30", 3.3 kg
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GeForce GT 330M, Pentium P6100, 14.00", 2.3 kg
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GeForce GT 420M, Core i3 370M, 15.60", 2.5 kg
Packard Bell EasyNote TK85-JU-201RU
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Packard Bell EasyNote MB89
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Stefan Hinum, 2008-01-27 (Update: 2012-05-26)