Packard Bell EasyNote MH36-V200 Reviews: Windows Vista Home Basic 15.4" Screen Laptop computer

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Score: 8.4/10

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This laptop is a good all rounder. “I've just bought this laptop for my daugther and she's delighted with it, the…” Sharon, Reading View all 119 real customer reviews

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Dual Core Processor with 1GB of Memory and 160GB Storage on Windows Vista Home Basic. More »

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119 verified purchasers have reviewed this product.
90% of people recommend it.

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Battery life6.9
Design8.3
Performance8.3
Size and weight8.3
Value for money (at time of purchase)8.8
Overall rating8.4
General home user (22)
Music, gaming or video fan (3)
Business user (1)
Other (92)
 

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Sharon, Reading , “National Account Manager”

Score 9.0/10

+ I've just bought this laptop for my daugther and she's delighted with it, the setting up of the computer was easy, even for someone like me who's technically challenged, the screen is a great size and very clear, the 2gb memory is brilliant and a must for someone studying, the laptop is pretty responsive and overall very good value for money.

- The only slight negative is having the numbers to the side and not along the top, if you touch type it is slightly annoying having to look at the keyboard to hit the numbers, it also makes everything feel slightly off centre.

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39 of 41 people found this review helpful

purchased 31 Mar 2009

Chris, Leeds

Score 9.0/10

+ fast performance, slim and lightweight

- only 3 usb
left and right click buttons stiff

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38 of 47 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Mar 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 8.0/10

+ I actually bought this laptop for a client. I do setting up peoples computers and the like, and they wanted a simple, cheap laptop for general and internet use. When it arrived at my house I was quite impressed by it's design, and for the money the specs are ok. The client is also very pleased with it. The screen was also really good, and the speakers were very very loud and bass-y for laptop speakers. I was very pleased with the speakers.

- The touchpad isn't great, it feels a bit rough, (like all Packard Bell laptops I have tried, actually,) and doesn't have a virtual scroller, (so you can' move your finger up and down the side of it to scroll, as you can on most laptops,) or any scroll buttons.

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26 of 27 people found this review helpful

purchased 24 Apr 2009

Amie, Milton Keynes

Score 7.0/10

+ Reviewer left no comment

- The battery life is the only thing that is the problem; as soon as you take the AC power out, it's at 2 hours but it goes down reasonably quickly, no matter what your doing.

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18 of 20 people found this review helpful

purchased 16 Apr 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 9.0/10

+ Ideal and good value money for basic home use

- Battery does not last as long as I would have wished it to.

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18 of 21 people found this review helpful

purchased 27 Mar 2009

Carol, Dunoon

Score 10.0/10

+ fast loading of content . Also good that you can run more that one programme at a time

- hate design of mouse

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14 of 16 people found this review helpful

purchased 25 Apr 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 8.0/10

+ A very good purchase offering lots of little extras for a very competitive price.

- frustratingly slow to start up but once its up and running it performs extremely well.

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13 of 15 people found this review helpful

purchased 12 Apr 2009

christine, bottesford notts , “i enjoy using it.”

Score 10.0/10

+ nice and light very good value for money.10 out 10 all the way.

- none.

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12 of 16 people found this review helpful

purchased 21 Apr 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 10.0/10

+ Everything I love the machine it is great for what I wanted and easy to use

- All the added extras that you get already installed on the desktop, you should be able to choose not spend ages trying to unistall them.

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9 of 10 people found this review helpful

purchased 14 May 2009

Sarah, Essex

Score 8.0/10

+ Great design, easy to use - perfect for a first time user.

- Too many programmes loaded onto it to start with.

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9 of 12 people found this review helpful

purchased 25 May 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 9.0/10

+ Boots up fairly quickly, good video playback and sound quality

- Battery could be better

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7 of 8 people found this review helpful

purchased 31 May 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 9.0/10

+ Great looking Laptop, its user friendly, really good sound and picture quality great for playing movies on.
Fab memory for the price of the laptop. Really pleased with the whole package.

- Battery life, it lasts around 2 hours, this may well be ok for laptops, but this is my first one so I dont actually have anything to compare it to!

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7 of 8 people found this review helpful

purchased 08 Jun 2009

Matt, Nottingham , “General home user” More like this »

Score 9.0/10

+ I'm really impressed with the way that it handles everything i do. I bought it largely because of its 2Gb of RAM - i knew that this would be enough to handle what i wanted my new laptop to do.

- The battery isn't the best at times - although it has never been great on laptops. The more powerful they're becoming, the more power they're needing, and this can't always be done. Apart from the battery, i have had no issues with the laptop.

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6 of 6 people found this review helpful

purchased 12 Jun 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 9.0/10

+ I like the screen, its size and picture quality Its also light weight.

- Im not so happy with the areas that just pressdown joined to the mouse pad, I hpoe they are as hard wearing as propper buttons.

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9 of 13 people found this review helpful

purchased 03 Apr 2009

Chris, Caerphilly , “Silver surfer.”

Score 9.0/10

+ Looks good, easy to set up, lovely clear screen.

- As with most laptops battery does not last long enough.

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8 of 12 people found this review helpful

purchased 25 Apr 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 7.0/10

+ easy to use, fast, good storage space

- drivers out of date, weird line appeared on screen, seemingly no access at all to webcam

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8 of 13 people found this review helpful

purchased 16 Apr 2009

Roberta, Kent , “Indulgent Grandma.”

Score 9.0/10

+ Performs as promised in discription.

- None so far

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6 of 9 people found this review helpful

purchased 18 Apr 2009

roy, arbroath , “an old timer”

Score 9.0/10

+ good design screen perfect

- unable to find drivers to install softwear or to play cds or dvds

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7 of 11 people found this review helpful

purchased 14 Apr 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 7.0/10

+ Easy to set up and use, Lightweight with god screen size for watching dvds and tv

- Sometimes quite slow. Whilst having a numeric pad is great the offset keyboard sometimes means typing is problematic and wrong keys are easily pressed.

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5 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 12 May 2009

Peter, Blackburn

Score 8.0/10

+ Sleek looking, smart design and user friendly system/programmes and good value for money.

- Reviewer left no comment

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 14 Jun 2009

nick, brighton

Score 8.0/10

+ cheap, great performance, perfect every day laptop

- mouse clicker is quite hard to press and the navigation sometimes has a mind of its own.Battery life is quite low

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4 of 5 people found this review helpful

purchased 29 Jun 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 8.0/10

+ suits all my needs

- came loaded up with too many programmes and software on it

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6 of 10 people found this review helpful

purchased 20 Apr 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 9.0/10

+ Bright clear picture.

- Opening the laptop can be slightly awkward, need two hands.

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3 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 11 Apr 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 10.0/10

+ Battery life is good so i don't know what the others reviewing this product are running.
Look's nice :)

- Mouse is not the best design hard to click.

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3 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 28 May 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 5.0/10

+ its lightweight and compact and a really good screen and layout.

- Its not suitable for playing high resolution games, or anything. and the battery life is poor

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 30 May 2009

Helen, Sheffield , “General home user” More like this »

Score 8.0/10

+ Light weight. Easy quick set up. Excellent keyboard. A joy to use. Would never know it's reconditioned.

- None as yet

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3 of 4 people found this review helpful

purchased 27 Jun 2009

keith, hereford , “General home user” More like this »

Score 10.0/10

+ light to carry

- Reviewer left no comment

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2 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 04 Jun 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 8.0/10

+ Excellent keyboard

- track pad could do with a fast scroll function

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 15 Jul 2009

Milly, Blandford

Score 9.0/10

+ It was a decent price, works well for the jobs needed.

- Battery life is quite poor. Problems with the internet if goes into standby whilst internet is in use.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 11 Jul 2009

ian, southampton , “General home user” More like this »

Score 8.0/10

+ good all round performance and quality

- Reviewer left no comment

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 30 Jul 2009

janette, ipswich , “great product”

Score 9.0/10

+ im happy with everything

- not any

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4 of 7 people found this review helpful

purchased 07 Apr 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Retired NHS Secretary ”

Score 8.0/10

+ Very light and quite quick connections to the internet.

- Gets very dusty and shows fingerprints as it is black!

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5 of 9 people found this review helpful

purchased 24 Apr 2009

Cheryl, Aberdeen , “General home user” More like this »

Score 9.0/10

+ Lovely design, great to use, value for money. Does exactly what it says on the tin! I love it

- Battery life is only 2 hours and that depends on what you are doing. The more processes you are doing the less battery life you get.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful

purchased 27 Jul 2009

Christine, Eltham, London

Score 10.0/10

+ Excellent value for money.

- none

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1 of 2 people found this review helpful

purchased 09 Jul 2009

Joe, Hexham , “General home user” More like this »

Score 8.0/10

+ Good Graphics, crystal clear screen presentation. Nice positive keyboard. Excellent WiFi connection, up and
running with no problems. Overall a good Laptop, well designed and with nice looks.

- No bad points about the laptop, only the bundled software programs that come with these items is, as usual, a nuisance to remove. It would be better to have the choice of whether or not to install these 'bundles' before installation, rather than having to uninstall afterwards.

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purchased 06 Aug 2009

phil, london , “General home user” More like this »

Score 9.0/10

+ good screen size, clear image .mouse very respnsive, layout user friendly.you get a lot of computer for the money, overall very happy with the product

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 06 Aug 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 8.0/10

+ looks great, good screen size and resolution.

- not sure if it needs more ram to run vista runs slow if you try to do more than one thing at a time.
touch pad buttons are stiff.

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purchased 08 Aug 2009

Lindsey, Cumbria

Score 9.0/10

+ Quite light, easy to use, smart appearance, ideal size

- Battery life not that great but we only use it at home so its easily plugged in.

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purchased 23 Aug 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 9.0/10

+ v good produck thank you

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 27 Aug 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 8.0/10

+ The design and layout of the laptop is very good, the screen is especially nice. Easy to use no problems so far,

- Not sure about the battery life, i try to keep it charging. The two mouse buttons are very awkward to press.

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purchased 01 Sep 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 8.0/10

+ Reviewer left no comment

- battry life is not very good

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purchased 05 Aug 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 8.0/10

+ easy to use and adequate for my needs

- mouse buttons stiff and awquard

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purchased 12 Aug 2009

Sharon, Hull , “General home user” More like this »

Score 9.0/10

+ The screen is the best quality iv ever seen!

- Was disappointed it didnt have the built in web cam.

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purchased 20 Aug 2009

Will, St Andrews

Score 9.0/10

+ Stylish design, good performance, cheap

- Stiff mouse buttons

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purchased 06 Sep 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Business user”

Score 9.0/10

+ Great lightweight machine, good processing power.

- circular mouse pad takes a little getting used too.

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purchased 09 Sep 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 8.0/10

+ The extra numbers on the side of the keyboard

- Reviewer left no comment

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4 of 9 people found this review helpful

purchased 19 Apr 2009

carol, fairford , “happy older custermer”

Score 9.0/10

+ all round good

- none

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4 of 9 people found this review helpful

purchased 23 Apr 2009

Brett, London

Score 2.0/10

+ Reviewer left no comment

- Terrible performance. Really struggles to do anything.

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1 of 3 people found this review helpful

purchased 21 Jun 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser

Score 7.0/10

+ For a budget laptop it has a very good keyboard and screen.

- It comes with Microsoft Vista, which is disappointing when you have used Linux.

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4 of 10 people found this review helpful

purchased 13 Apr 2009

Jann, Hampton Court

Score 10.0/10

+ Good value for money. This laptop was bought as a retirement gift.

- None that I know of.

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3 of 9 people found this review helpful

purchased 16 Apr 2009

Anonymous verified purchaser , “i enjoy my laptop”

Score 7.0/10

+ it'slow for down loads the good thin with it it nics size but thst about all realy

- Reviewer left no comment

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1 of 9 people found this review helpful

purchased 17 Apr 2009

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Product Features

Screen Size in Inches 15.4
Operating System Windows Vista Home Basic
RAM in GB 1
Number of Cores Dual
Hard Disk Capacity in GB 160
Screen Resolution (pixels) 1280x800 (WXGA)
Processor Brand Intel
Processor Celeron Dual Core
Processor Number T1600
Processor Speed in MHz 1660
USB Port 3
Integrated Webcam Yes
WiFi Yes
Bluetooth No
Fingerprint Access No
Remote Control No
DVD Writer Yes
DVD Drive Yes
CD Rom Yes
Blu-ray Drive No
HDMI Interface No
VGA Port Yes
DVI Port No
Card Reader No
Weight (kg) 2.6
Brand of Graphic Chip Intel
Graphic Card or Chip GMA X4500
Colour Black
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