Friday, Oct 19th 2007 by Chris Davies
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Loading ...Packard Bell’s first foray into the UMPC market (based on a VIA reference design, you may remember) has finally been fleshed out with some more information having appeared on the company website as “coming soon”. With a street price of £349 ($710, but remember that UK price includes tax) the EasyNote XS has a 7-inch screen, 1.2GHz C7-M processor and 1GB of RAM; happy enough specs for Windows XP Home.
With a 30GB hard drive, built-in Bluetooth, WiFi and webcam, the EasyNote could be a serious rival to a higher-spec ASUS Eee; size-wise they’re very similar.
The compact notebook will also launch in the US under the Everex brand, as the CE260.
Packard Bell EasyNote XS [via UMPC Portal]
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PC World are the only people showing this item in the UK and they are pricing it at £599.99.
This will make the Asus Eee PC even more attractive now.
PC World
I just looked at PC world’s price and they’re selling for £499. The Asus is a little gem but the specs on the PB are much better. Bigger memory, bigger storage. A better comparison to make would be the Packard Bell and the cheaper of the Vye. I’ve been looking around for a very compact laptop and, personally, I’m sold on the Packard Bell.
I just had a look at the Easynote xs 20 at PC World and even tried it. Very nice and neat little device. Still twice the price of the Asus eee pc 701 and with windows xp only.
Also I think Asus Linux interface very nice. No real competition between the 2. Many more people will buy Asus rather than Easynote, especially when the 8Gig comes out in January.
Just been playing with one of these at PC World in Fosse Park, Leicester
The price is £399 there
Not a bad little machine. The display looked as if it was suffering from scaling effects. Particularly for text/fonts
The mouse pad is very tiny too
Still, it looks like a soild peice of kit