ASUS B23E Review: Almost Everything a Netbook Should Be Discussion

[ijozic]

The B23E has a 48Whr Sonata 3-cell battery, X220 has a 63Whr 6-cell or 31% more than the B23E so it will get noticably better battery life.

Yeah, I know, hence why I wrote "e.g. by having a larger battery"

A Dell E6220 has more contemporary styling than the X220 plus a 60Whr 6-cell battery so we'd expect similar battery life to the X220. They are sometimes sold at the Dell Outlet for very low prices. A X220's IPS LCD has also been retrofitted to a E6220 in case you need the wider viewing angles.

I'm aware of that upgrade and was actually thinking if the same upgrade is possible on the B23E as I'm not a fan of the E6220 design on the outside (it's partly silver, not boxy enough, has protruding battery, etc.). Too bad there are no 12,5" 1600x900 screens (or even better, 1440x900 if the 16:10 screens were still around)..

The B23E somehow seems rather fat on the side-photos on the NBR review, but the dimensions put it to be thinner than my 1810TZ which is more than thin enough for me. Perhaps the photos are skewed?

[mick4394]

I find the "netbook" description misleading because the netbook moniker indicates hardware sufficient for using the net but not up to demanding usage. This is a full-powered ultraportable, except that the ultrabook title has moved into that space (but with some performance compromises).

Regarding the effect of RAM configuration on benchmarks, I did some research last year and put the results in this table.

John

Agreed, on the netbook term being misleading with this machine. Is Asus marketing this machine as a netbook, or is this the opinion of the reviewer?

[ALLurGroceries]

It is not marketed as a netbook; this is an erroneous characterization and an unfortunate choice for a title.