Packard Bell EasyNote MB89
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Packard Bell EasyNote MB89Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7500
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels, glossy: yes
Weight: 2.8kg
Price: 1200 euro
Average of 3 scores (from 4 reviews)
Reviews for the Packard Bell EasyNote MB89
Source: vnunet.com
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%
Source: PC Advisor
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
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy - 3-4/08
DE→EN, Length Unknown, Date: 02/22/2008
Rating: performance: 90% emissions: 40%
Source: Notebookjournal
DE→ENonline 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.
These cards should be able to display all current games with fluent framerates but not all with high detail settings. Especially demanding games like Crysis, Age of Conan, or Mass Effect are only playable with lower settings. Less demanding (and older) games, like Fifa 08, Command & Conquer 3, or Battlefield 2142 can be played with higher detail levels.
>> 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:
>> 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. Nowadays, more and more 16:9 displays with 15.6 inch appear. 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 energy and the laptops can be kept quite compact.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.8 kg: This weight is average for notebooks. Therefore the numerous mass of laptops with 15 inch display fits in this class of weight.
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, but with quite few market shares and few reviews. Until now (2009), the company focussed ruggedized laptops.
66.67%: 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.
