Packard Bell Easy Note SJ51-B-008

"Packaged Hell" appears to be less awful than it used to be (1549 words)
by whatanoldbag - written on 01/05/08 (Very useful, 2124 readings)
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MY PURCHASE I bought this Easy Note laptop from PC World a few weeks ago and paid £419. It is therefore pretty much an entry level machine, but I think it has some great features, which if they fit your requirements, make this a great buy. Packard Bell have been making laptops for years - they have been in business since 1991 and are a familiar name, though not one really associated with quality, so I did have some initial concerns when the salesman suggested it. The name dates back to 1926, when they made radios and televisons for America, and was bought in the 1980s and attached to this new PC company. The computers they made in the early nineties were, frankly, ...

Packard Bell Easy Note SJ51-B-008

Packard Bell build a solid laptop, but sadly it's wide of th ... (333 words)
by MCIS - written on 02/01/10 (Useful, 675 readings)
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and have no idea how to manually install drivers, you will be stuck with Vista, which performs fairly poorly on this laptop. XP runs so much better on the Easy Note than Vista it s unreal. The fan is also phenomenally noisy. It s like having a mini hoover whoosing away sometimes. Although the Easy Note has a 17" screen, it still seems, strangely, more bulky than it should be. But it isn t all doom and gloom; it has an SD card slot which is most handy, and the laptop is fairly powerful when it comes to running certain games, believe it or not. However here we suffer from the Vista trap again; I attempted to run one particular game which wouldn t work because ...

Packard Bell Easy Note VX

Excellent choice! (505 words)
by Deenie - written on 11/04/01, updated on 10/01/05 (Very useful, 2166 readings)
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at PC World the prices are very similar to other shops and online retailers. They have quite a range of laptops and after looking at them and their specifications the P Packard Bell Easy Note was definately the best choice. Even though it was not the most powerful in terms of speed it was the 'neatest' and best priced one! When you close it it is forms a slim sleek rectangle - unlike many of the others that were bubbly in shape and didn't close to produce a flush edge. It is a Pentium III 600 MHz or thereabouts with 64Mb RAM and lots of software already installed, and CDs also supplied. For those people who have never used a computer, or Windows, when you first ...