For two years it had been a very nice companion and it's a pity that now I have to take it apart and sell whatever I can. Still, it survived a serious crash when it fell on a floor, which not many others would survive (i only had to solder a new lid closing switch) The battery is still alive, holds for about an hour. The only problem was flimsy chassis box - i could feel how the whole laptop bends when carried in a shoulder bag. One of my favourite features was a little in-built subwoofer, providing outstanding quality of sound when compared to any other laptop. It was actually nicely designed and not badly built system! The fan was sucking air from under the keyboard, thus allowing to put laptop on any surface without risk of frying it, which i think is very clever. The home wifi is working fine for other devices (like the one i'm now using) so it's not the problem. The wifi light flashes but it doesnt detect any networks. I haven't done anything different to the laptop. And very painful at the same time, because i loved this laptop. Hi, I have a packard bell easynote gn45 and it suddenly wont connect to wifi. I'm still able to turn it on, but just to see 1024x768 resolution stretched over 1280x800 screen - horrible. Actually, it is not completely dead, GPU is the cause. My last laptop was PB EasyNote R9252 (PM 1.86 2M 533/ 1 GB Ram/ GF6200Go 256Mb) until it died about 2 months ago.
I would suggest buying from a German internet reseller as an option.īTW, how much are you going to pay for the model you have provided a link to? Please tell me which PackardBell laptop has attracted your attention and will try to suggest a better alternative in the same class.Ī couple of weeks ago I actually was in Copenhagen and I remember that the laptop prices I have seen there in the shops were more expensive than in Germany. If you are looking for a budget model, I think that MSI notebooks MSI S260 or S270 are much better alternative for practically the same money. At that time it was possible to find for the same money something better in terms of build quality and performance. I have also seen it in the shop and it was looking rather cheap.
I remember that there were some critical comments about it (the keyboard and touchpad quality and some others). My conclusion was that it is not good enough for the money. Click to expand.Half a year ago or so I was reading a review of a PackardBell 13" model (maybe it was in German).