Benq Joybook R45

The Laptop for Fine Living From the moment you retrieve the Joybook R45 from your bag to the moment you press the power button to shut down after a session of work or entertainment, you'll know this is a laptop that truly stands out from the rest. The luxurious styling—which evokes a handsome leather-bound folio more than utilitarian notebook—enables the R45 to fit in with any ensemble of exquisitely designed personal accessories.

Specification
* CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 (1.8GHz, 2MB L2 cache, 667MHz FSB)
* Chipset: Mobile Intel® PM965 Express Chipset
* Graphics: nVIDIA® GeForce® 8400M GS - 128MB
* Memory : DDRII 1GB (max to 4.0 GB)
* Hard Drive: 120GB SATA
* Optical Drive: 8x DVD Super-Multi Double-Layer Drive
* Screen Size : 14.1" UltraVivid widescreen display
* Webcam: Built-in 2.0-megapixel webcam
* Battery: 6-cell Lithium-ion Battery, 53Whr (4800mAh)
* Dimensions: 340 x 246 x 27.5 (front) 33.4 (rear) mm
* Weight : 2.1 kg (without battery)

Design
The Joybook R45 is an odd mix between premium and entry level. It's certainly built solidly enough, and when closed it paints quite the attractive picture. Even the brown vinyl surrounded by a silver trim, designed in faux-leather style gives it a nice, refined touch, if a little fake.

The standard battery extends beyond the back of the laptop, but only slightly, and given the laptop's 14.1-inch size this shouldn't cause any issues with fitting it in satchels or laptop bags.

The interior is a mix of black, silver, grey and a single red trim, along with glowing red buttons for power and wireless — giving the impression that we were typing on a cylon, which is all types of cool. Nonetheless, the cheap silver plastic may offend some in its old-school nature, and the single bar used as a both left and right mouse buttons requires far too much pressure to activate.

Features
Being a mainstream laptop, the R45 comes with a fairly standard set of ports — four USB, HDMI, D-Sub, FireWire, headphone/microphone, Express card, SD/MS card reader, and gigabit Ethernet and modem jacks.

A DVD+-RW sits on the right-hand side, a 2-megapixel camera on the top, while internally the machine is driven by an Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 (2.1GHz), 1GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 8400M G graphics chip, and a 160GB hard drive split equally into two partitions. Those who want to do more than just office work or internet browsing may wish to upgrade the 1GB RAM to 2GB, especially since the laptop runs the resource hungry Windows Vista Home Premium.

Performance
3D performance was expectedly low considering the GeForce 8400M, scoring 1,125 in 3DMark06 — this is not a gaming laptop. In PCMark05 the R45 scored 4,397, making this more than adequate for day-to-day tasks and office usage.

Turning off all the power-saving features, setting the screen brightness and volume to maximum, we played back a DVD to stress the system. Under these conditions, the battery lasted one hour, 24 minutes and 41 seconds. Obviously under normal office conditions with
power-saving features turned on it will last significantly longer.

Here My Review:
The Good
* Affordable for limit budget gamers
* elegant design
* Perform as i expected(yes loor, esp when you compare with the price)

The Bad:
* Singular mouse button hard to click
* Got warm a bit after gaming for 2-3 hours(gothic 3, required high performance of Graphics)

The Bottomline:
When i got this laptop on mid june 2008, i add another 1 Gigs of RAM, as for now it performs quite well even with vista(yes vista sucks). the graphic card is just amazing as we compare with the prices(my mates just bought HP Pavillion Tx2032AU series) for almost same price, but their laptop can't run high graphics game..as for me this laptop is recommended for middle class gamer with low budget(arround 900 US$).