Packard Bell EasyNote SL81
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Packard Bell EasyNote SL81 Processor: AMD Turion X2 Ultra ZM-80
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Display: 17.0 inch, 16:10, 1440x900 pixels
Weight: 3.1kg
Price: 800 euro
Links: Packard Bell homepage Packard Bell notebook section EasyNote SL (Series)
Average Score: 70% - average
Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)
mobility: 50%, workmanship: 90%, ergonomy: 50%, emissions: 40%
Reviews for the Packard Bell EasyNote SL81
Foreign Reviews
70% Packard Bell EasyNote SL81
Source: Notebookjournal 
online available, Long, Date: 08/26/2008
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 90% performance: 40% features: 50% display: 30% mobility: 50% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 50% emissions: 40%
Comment
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650: The Hd 3650 is a middle class graphics card (in 2008) and compareable to an 8600M GT GPU from Nvidia. It is fabricated in 55nm process and due to Avivo video engine the graphic card can support the processor with several video operations (HD video too).
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.
AMD Turion X2 Ultra: The AMD Turion X2 Ultra is part of the Puma platform and a mixture of the old K9 core (form the Turion 64 X2) and some parts of the K10 architecture (memorycontroller, hypertransport, crossbar switch from the Phenom). Because of the increased L2 cache ("Ultra" CPUs) and the improved memory controller, the performance increased a bit. Still a similar clocked Core 2 Duo is noticably faster.
ZM-80:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
17.0":
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
3.1 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 an international notebook manufacturer, but with quite few market shares and few reviews. The evaluations of Packard Bell-notebooks are moderate or mediocre.
70%: 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.
