Packard Bell iPower 5000 Review

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Packard Bell iPower 5000
2.6 stars
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djbstewart1's Review of Packard Bell iPower 5000 Laptop

17th May 2007

Overall Rating

4.5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Screen Quality
    3.5 stars
  • Ease of Use
    4.5 stars
  • Time Laptop Owned
    Over 1 Year
  • Battery Life
    2.5 stars
Good Points

I got the laptop second hand in perfect condition last year for £500, this was really good value.
The laptop is really fast, its faster than my friend's Toshiba which has 1.8ghz Celeron and 1gb of ram compared to my 2.4ghz Pentium and only 512mb of ram.
Excellent connectivity - 4 USB ports, 1394, card reader, S-video, monitor and serial.
ESB(4) buttons.


Bad Points

Battery life.
Could be stronger.


General Comments

I am very happy with this laptop, performance when I got it was far higher than anything else for the same price, and even now it still gives a good fight whenever it needs to. The laptop isn't the lightest and since the battery failed after 3 years of use it has turned into a portable desktop rather than a laptop. However, portability wasn't the first thing in Packard Bell's mind when they designed this laptop, it's performance was. Even though it only has 32mb of graphics memory it handles games very well. I play Virtual Skipper 4 and Empire Earth without any trouble what so ever. The keyboard is very good, to the extent that I prefer typing on it than on a normal one. The only real problems that I have had with this machine were its screen mountings coming loose which caused a wobble leading to the case cracking. This was repaired and hasn't been a bother since, also a bad connection on the motherboard has led to the keyboard and touch pad not working, this will be fixed soon. I feel I should also add, these two problems were helped along by me being a student, this notebook has a very tough life, and has been dropped on many an occasion. In fact the screen problem started after it hit a pillar when it was in a bag so its not much of a stretch to say that it was me who caused them. All in all I am very pleased with this notebook and would recommend it as a alternative to a new notebook in the budget market.

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