Packard Bell Easynote BU45

weight and size perfect for my needs

Vista !!!!

Does everything I want and a good size to literally be a lap top, I work with it on my lap which I found to awkward with the larger laptops

small screen strains your eyes after a while

Stylish laptop and still small and light enough to carry around to work and back. Built in camera stops the need for an independant webcam.

Screen has a large border and makes the laptop slightly bigger than you would expect for a 12 inch, its more like a 13" laptop, do not buy a 12" sleeve as it will not fit. Not enough USB ports although this is common with the smaller laptops.

Good - Its light weight small screen full size keyboard, usb slots and card reader also fingerprint recognition is a real time saver.

Bad - very poor sound quality + DVD player doesn't play all formats. No PCMCIA Slots

Light very powerful easy to use bright screen.

Battery life.

I bought this machine as it was an affordable 12" model. The key good points is that it is affordable.

The battery life is very poor. The whole point of having a 12" laptop is for travel. A battery life of 1hr to 1h30 is not enough to get much work done or even watch a DVD. I now wish I had paid a little more and got a machine I could use on my travels....

Small. compact and fast

Design is a bit plastic looking

very portable, very capable. very good

Vista Vista Vista

lite weight, and feature rich for the cost

low batter life (but what do I expect for the cost)

Looks nice and light weight.I like it.Performances also nice.

The main problem is the operating system Vista.If I can get the Win XP Instead of vista ,it should be better for the old user.