Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The netbook market is very crowded and setting yourself apart from the other products becomes harder every day. The Packard Bell .dot/10 does a commendable job to deliver a multifunctional product with lots of useful features like integrated webcam, large HDD, wifi, multi-card reader, and this at a competitive price of €399 €50 cheaper than the listed launch price. Performance wise this Atom based netbook is fast enough to run the latest Windows 7 beta without flaw and its 1gb onboard memory is sufficient to even do a little bit of multi-tasking.Upgrade options on the .dot/10 are absent, I couldn’t find an easy way to replace either HDD or Memory so that’s definitely a downside if you’re looking for a netbook which you can upgrade in the future.
The next generation netbook are still a few months away, with both Intel and NVIDIA pushing to deliver hardware capable of decoding HD content, higher resolutions screens and hopefully also newer power friendly features, as the current Intel chipset used is not the most power friendly out there. Intel did release a newer Atom CPU which is clocked at 1.66Ghz, no surprise that the 60Mhz speed bump is not making any difference performance wise, so those with a 1.6Ghz Atom can still sleep on both ears.
The Packard Bell dot series with 8.9” screen scores high in the looks department and feature wise is quite complete, only lacking Bluetooth; value wise it doesn’t stand out but is not more expensive than the competition. It will come down to personal preference whether or not this netbook is suited for you or not.
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