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Packard Bell EasyNote Butterfly Touch video review

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A few minor niggles do little to distract from this stylish yet affordable convertible tablet laptop. Packard Bell's Butterfly Touch offers decent build quality, excellent battery life, flexible functionality and some great software without charging a significant premium. Even if its tablet capabilities aren't your main point of interest, it's still well worth checking out.

Overall

8/10

Ardjuna Seghers

By Ardjuna Seghers
Reviewed 18 May 2010
Updated 05 January 2012

Price as reviewed

£499.00

  • Review
    • 1: Intro, Specs, Design & Connectivity
    • 2: Keyboard, Touchpad & Audio-Visual
    • 3: Tablet & Touch Functionality
    • 4: Performance, Battery Life & Verdict
    • 5: Feature Table
    • 6: PCMark Vantage: Full Results
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  • Reviewed by Ardjuna Seghers
  • 18 May 2010
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Packard Bell EasyNote Butterfly Touch details

Performance
7/10
Value
9/10
Features
8/10
Design
8/10
Battery Life
9/10
Overall
8/10

Price as reviewed

£499.00

Manufacturer

Packard Bell

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1:15 PM on 18 May, 2010

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This is almost identical to the Acer 1825PT / 1825PTZ (unsurprisingly, since Acer own Packard Bell), and very similar to the Asus T101MT.





From what I can tell, the Asus is the most underpowered and the cheapest; the Acers are about £100 more than the Packard Bell but higher 'specced. Which would you recommend?

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1:31 PM on 18 May, 2010

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Um, what does 800Mhz mean in that table?..

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2:35 PM on 18 May, 2010

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It's the front side bus (FSB) frequency. It's a technical detail that's not worth worrying about.

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2:37 PM on 18 May, 2010

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This looks great, I bought a TX2 about a year ago and its a similar sort of thing, but this has the advantage of being cheaper, running cooler and having longer battery life. I have been very happy with the TX2 so I would say this is a winner.





The tablet function doesnt offer that much in real usability, but with a convertable you dont lose anything either. And you can play Crayon World Deluxe which is awesome, and I used it for drawing Economic diagrams in one note while in lectures as well which was the main reason for buying it.

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2:52 PM on 18 May, 2010

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@dandare71:


The Asus T101MT is a netbook, not a laptop at all. Thus it's a very different beast from the Butterfly Touch reviewed here. It has a weak Atom CPU, half the RAM, a less powerful battery, lower screen resolution, etc.





As to the Acers, if you're not planning to run anything that will severely tax the PB's Celeron there's no reason to pay £100 more, especially since you then miss out on the included copy of Adobe Elements 8 too.





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Sorry, that's the FSB. Core CPU speed is 1.2GHz.

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4:21 PM on 18 May, 2010

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This is in a different league to the T101MT. Very nearly went for this but stumped up for the HP tm2. Got a SU4100 dual core CULV with ati 4550 dedicated graphics (512MB), wacom touch screen/ pen and a bundled external drive with the same keyboard ( and sadly touchpad) as the envy 13. I feel like a stolen it at £700 considering I can modern warefare two on it. It's quite interesting playing that with a pen! I recommend anyone in the market checks one out as an alternative. The touchsmart software isn't bad either.

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4:47 PM on 18 May, 2010

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Apologies if this a dummies question but with these tablets can the screen orientation change?


I never played with these things or dabbled in windows on a tablet. It looks tempting if the screen can accomodate scrolling documents like web pages to compensate its size.

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Yes to both of your questions hank

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@Andy. I took delivery of my TM2 last week and I think it's a fantastic machine. I had been planning on buying a Lenovo X201T but the HP is £800 cheaper and has a better graphics card.





It takes a little bit of frigging about to get the digitiser to be pressure sensitive and still get the multi-touch to work but once you do you've got a great laptop, a digital sketchbook and an occasional gaming machine. Once again I'm going to big up Sketch Book Pro as an excellent drawing tool, especially for a tablet.

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I bought the Acer 1825PTZ in Singapore last week and brought it back with me. Excellent device it has to be said. Got it bundled with an external slimline dvd-rw and wireless mouse which is handy. My question is though seeing at the screen is capacitive and not resistive like the older 1820PTZ is there a special stylus that can be used with this if I intend on using Photoshop or SketchBook Pro??

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