Packard Bell Butterfly S 1200

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Reviews for the Packard Bell Butterfly S 1200

80% Packard Bell EasyNote Butterfly Touch Review
Source: Trusted Reviews Archive.org version
A few minor niggles do little to distract from this stylish yet affordable convertible tablet laptop. Packard Bell's Butterfly Touch offers decent build quality, excellent battery life, flexible functionality and some great software without charging a significant premium. Even if its tablet capabilities aren't your main point of interest, it's still well worth checking out.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/18/2010
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 90% performance: 70% features: 80% mobility: 90%

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60% Packard Bell Butterfly S 1200 Subnotebook
Source: Minitechnet DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 10/23/2009
Rating: Total score: 60% price: 60% performance: 60% display: 80% mobility: 100% workmanship: 80% ergonomy: 100%

Packard Bell Easy Note Butterfly S
Source: Pc Tuner IT→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/06/2010
Rating: price: 80% performance: 70% mobility: 80%

Packard Bell Easy Note Butterfly S: performance e portabilità
Source: Pc Tuner IT→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/06/2010
Rating: price: 80% mobility: 80% workmanship: 90%

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD: Onboard (shared Memory) GPU built in the GM45, GE45 and GS45 chipset (Montevina). Because of two more shaders and a higher core clock, much faster than the old GMA X3100. Still not advisable for gamers (DirectX 10 games not playable or only with very low settings). The integrated video processor is able to help decode HD videos (AVC/VC-2/MPEG2) , e.g., for a fluent Blu-Ray playback with slow CPUs.

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.

SU3500: Power efficient single core processor for small subnotebooks that is based on the Penryn core and includes all features (like Virtualization, C6 state, ...). The performance should be comparable with a 1.7 GHz Athlon II Neo K125.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

13.30":

Above all, this display size is used for subnotebooks, ultrabooks and convertibles. For all three types, this size is quite large. The biggest variety of subnotebooks is represented with this size.

Large display-sizes allow higher resolutions. So, details like letters are bigger. On the other hand, the power consumption is lower with small screen diagonals and the devices are smaller, more lightweight and cheaper.

1.6 kg:

This weight is typical for very old and big tablets, subnotebooks, ultrabooks and convertibles with a 11-13 inch display-diagonal; nowadays, rather typical for 15 inch laptops.

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.

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.

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