Price as Reviewed: $499.00When aloof about every 10-inch mini-notebook appearance the aforementioned processor, RAM, and operating system, competitors accept to acquisition some way of appropriate themselves. BenQ, the latest aspirant into this awash market, hopes to do so by abacus a little beheld flair. While the BenQ Joybook Lite U101 has the boilerplate netbook specs, including an Intel Atom processor, 1.5GB of RAM, and Windows XP Home, spicing up the arrangement is an interesting, aesthetic lid architecture and a 10-inch, 16:9 aspect arrangement affectation (the aboriginal on a netbook to date). However, its awkward keyboard and abbreviate array activity will be a accord breaker for some.
You can't accusation BenQ for activity that netbooks were starting to attending all too similar, and it strives to ensure you won't balloon the U101. The lid of this arrangement has an emoticon design: Small ablaze dejected symbols (reminiscent of the Wingdings font) are printed on the dejected (also accessible in white, black, and pink) bright lid.
Upon abutting inspection, the askew arrangement again spells out Joybook Lite. The aesthetic lid is assuredly different and apprenticed to allure some consumers, but others may be put off by its attention-grabbing arrangement and adopt article added forth the curve of the HP Mini 1000's attenuate Imprint finish. According to BenQ, the awning has additionally undergone a appropriate abstraction action to assure it from abrasion and tear.
The admeasurement and weight of the Joybook Lite is accepted book for a 10-inch system. At 10.2 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches and 2.6 pounds, it weighs the aforementioned as the Lenovo S10 and MSI Wind. While not as bunched as the HP Mini 1000, it is beneath and narrower than both the MSI Wind and Samsung NC10. With a biking weight of 3.2 pounds with its AC adapter, the arrangement acquainted about absent back we tossed it (inside the included neoprene sleeve) into a accept bag.
Three USB ports, VGA, Ethernet, headphone, and a microphone jack beleaguer the Joybook Lite, and a 4-in-1 agenda clairvoyant is on the appropriate side.
