Packard Bell EasyNote BU45

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Reviews for the Packard Bell EasyNote BU45

Test Packard Bell EasyNote BU45 Subnotebook
Source: Notebookcheck DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/11/2008
Rating: performance: 80% display: 50% mobility: 50% emissions: 90%

Für 999 EUR bekommt man ein Subnoteboook mit guter Hardware, schickem Design, aber auch kleinem Akku und geringen Schönheitsfehlern.
Source: Minitechnet DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 06/29/2007
Rating: price: 80% performance: 70% display: 80% mobility: 40% workmanship: 80%

80% Sparsames Mini-Office
Source: Notebookjournal DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 05/02/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 75% performance: 70% features: 50% display: 30% mobility: 30%

Kompakt und bezahlbar
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 04/30/2007
Rating: price: 80% mobility: 60%

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on Mobile Intel 945GM chipset. It is a faster clocked version of the GMA 900 and supports no hardware T&L (Transform & Lightning) accelleration (which is required for some games).

These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.

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

Intel Core Duo: Double Core processor with a very good relation of performance to current consumption. The 2 MB L2 Cache are used together by the double. The maximum capacity of 31 watts is only 4 watts more than with the Pentium M (predecessor). Both cores are lowered automatically and independently of each other by speed steps down to 1 GHz. In addition it now supports also SSE3 instructions. At least it is just as fast as a equivalent Pentium M. With applications, which were designed for multi-processors, the performance can be nearly twice as fast as with the Pentium M (e.g. CineBench around 86% fast)

T2250: » Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

12.10":

This range of display format is largely the upper limit for tablets and the lower limit for subnotebooks.

The advantage of subnotebooks is that the entire laptop can be small in size and therefore easily portable. The tiny display has the added advantage of requiring little power, which further improves battery life and thus mobility. The disadvantage is that reading texts is exhausting for the eyes. High resolutions, which one is used to from a standard laptop, are almost not usable.

The same applies to tablets in this size range.

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.

80%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.

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